RUCKUS Principal Systems Engineer (Networking)

Location: Remote role associated with Santa Clara, California, United States; travel up to 40% may be required.

Expected total compensation, including base salary and commission: $220,000–$300,000.

Company

hirify.global develops connectivity solutions, with RUCKUS Networks focused on purpose-driven wireless, wired, cloud, controller-based, and edge networking.

What you will do

• Lead complex enterprise and strategic customer opportunities from discovery through design, validation, competitive positioning, and closure.
• Provide pre-sales solution architecture, network design, proofs of concept, technical demonstrations, and business-value positioning.
• Support adoption, migrations, product maturity, and customer success across the RUCKUS networking portfolio, including RUCKUS One.
• Lead field validation of emerging platforms, large-scale deployments, edge architectures, cloud-managed services, and migration programs.
• Translate customer and field requirements into product feedback, feature requests, defect reports, and quality improvements.
• Build reusable labs, demonstrations, enablement content, training materials, and technical alliance solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 10+ years of relevant experience in IP networking, wireless technologies, pre-sales engineering, solution architecture, product enablement, or technical field leadership.
• Advanced expertise in pre-sales engineering, enterprise account strategy, partner engagement, and complex high-value opportunities.
• Strong knowledge of 802.11 wireless design, RF engineering, troubleshooting, optimization, IP routing and switching, WAN/LAN design, security authentication, RADIUS/AAA, virtualization, and cloud environments.
• Experience troubleshooting complex customer, partner, and product issues, including escalation analysis, defect documentation, reproduction support, and impact mitigation.
• Strong technical presentation, executive communication, documentation, and enablement skills.
• Ability to travel up to 40% of the time.

Nice to have

• Experience with MDU, hospitality, education, public sector, service provider, enterprise, manufacturing, warehousing, or logistics environments.
• Knowledge of OT environments, network segmentation, security, reliability, and operational support.
• Experience with RUCKUS One, SmartZone-to-RUCKUS One migrations, cloud-managed networking, and large-scale access point deployments.
• Experience with technical alliance partners, ecosystem tools, automation assets, scripts, repositories, and operational tooling.
• CWNP or other network certifications.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaboration with sales, channel, product, engineering, QA, TAC, TME, alliance, and global systems engineering teams.
• Medical, dental, and vision plans.
• Life and accidental death insurance.
• 401(k) plan and participation in the Company’s Incentive Plan.
• Eleven paid holidays and two weeks of paid vacation in a full calendar year, prorated based on start date.