IT Manufacturing Systems Architect / MES Integration Lead (MES)

Location: Onsite in Fremont, California, USA

Annual salary: $175,000–$200,000, plus bonus and equity eligibility.

Company

hirify.global develops integrated clean energy technology combining structural, electrical, digital, data, and automation solutions for utility-scale solar power plants.

What you will do

• Define IT and manufacturing systems architecture for production, quality, maintenance, supply chain, traceability, and operational excellence.
• Lead MES strategy, implementation, integration, enhancement, consolidation, and plant rollout initiatives.
• Design manufacturing data standards, governance, master data, data models, warehouses, and analytics solutions.
• Integrate MES with ERP, PLM, QMS, WMS, TMS, data warehouses, and enterprise analytics platforms.
• Enable end-to-end product and component traceability across materials, processes, equipment, operators, testing, and finished products.
• Evaluate factory automation technologies and lead vendor selection, solution design, testing, deployment, and production support.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, engineering, manufacturing engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in manufacturing IT, MES, industrial systems, systems integration, or a related discipline.
• Strong knowledge of manufacturing analytics and OEE metrics, including availability, performance, quality, downtime, yield, and utilization.
• Experience designing or implementing manufacturing data warehouses, data lakes, operational data stores, or analytics platforms.
• Experience integrating MES with ERP, PLM, QMS, WMS, and enterprise data platforms.
• Knowledge of ISA-95, manufacturing data models, equipment hierarchies, genealogy, traceability, APIs, event-based integration, ETL/ELT, SQL, and industrial data protocols.

Nice to have

• Experience with OPC UA, MQTT, Modbus, REST APIs, message brokers, cloud platforms, and analytics tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Snowflake, Databricks, or Microsoft Fabric.
• Knowledge of manufacturing quality standards, statistical process control, process capability, corrective action processes, and operational technology cybersecurity.
• Experience leading global MES consolidation, template design, plant rollouts, manufacturing transformation programs, or work with system integrators and technology vendors.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on clean energy technology supporting utility-scale solar power plants and the global energy transition.
• Collaboration across manufacturing, engineering, quality, operations, supply chain, and IT functions.
• Compensation includes annual salary, bonus eligibility, and equity as part of the total package.
• Inclusive workplace committed to diversity and equal employment opportunity.