Principal Product Engineer – AI Cloud & Data Center

Location: Santa Clara, CA, United States

Salary: $136,880–$205,000 per annum

Company

hirify.global develops semiconductor solutions that support enterprise, cloud, AI, carrier, networking, and compute infrastructure.

What you will do

• Lead technical decision-making from product development through production and scalable productization.
• Serve as a primary technical stakeholder for NPI, including characterization, debugging, qualification, and production readiness.
• Align design engineering, operations, program management, quality, and leadership teams on full-closure technical solutions.
• Define and defend product quality, reliability, performance, and cost targets using data and system-level impact.
• Lead technical risk assessments, trade-off discussions, and recommendations for complex product decisions.
• Represent Product Engineering in customer interactions and internal leadership forums.

Requirements

• Deep understanding of the end-to-end product lifecycle and scalable productization.
• Strong structured problem-solving and root cause analysis experience across silicon, test, and manufacturing environments.
• Hands-on experience with ATE for silicon characterization, analysis, and debugging; experience with 93K is strongly preferred.
• Applied statistics experience in product characterization, yield improvement, and quality analysis.
• Working knowledge of data analytics and visualization tools such as JMP and SiliconDash or equivalent platforms.
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field with 10+ years of relevant industry experience, or a Master’s degree and/or PhD with 5+ years of relevant industry experience.

Nice to have

• Experience in the semiconductor industry.
• Interest in process automation and workflow optimization.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with bonus and equity plan eligibility.
• New-hire equity grant and annual equity refreshers.
• Employee stock purchase plan with a two-year look-back period.
• Family support programs and mental health resources.
• Recognition and service awards.
• Access to export-controlled technology may require eligibility under U.S. export control laws or an export license review.

Hiring process

• Interviews assess individual experience, thought process, and communication skills in real time.
• AI tools, transcription applications, automated answer generators, and note-taking bots are not permitted during interviews.