Channel Development Sr. Staff Engineer (HAMR)

Location: Longmont, United States. On-site product-design campus role with up to 10% travel.

Base salary: $132,974–$176,196 per year.

Company

hirify.global develops and manufactures data storage products, including hard disk drives and recording technologies.

What you will do

• Design channel-enabled architectures and component technology bundles to improve drive capacity, performance, and reliability.
• Develop channel detection, optimization, adaptation, and tuning techniques for current and future physical recording channels.
• Collaborate with channel vendors and guide head, media, and drive teams on read/write channel design feedback and screening.
• Perform bench testing with drive mules and drive-level HAMR recording experiments.
• Create channel models using synthesized and real waveforms to demonstrate new system technologies.
• Contribute to patents, invention disclosures, trade secrets, journal articles, and white papers.

Requirements

• Expertise in communications channels, including signal processing, information theory, modulation codes, error correction codes, equalization, and timing recovery.
• Experience with lab data acquisition and analysis instruments such as oscilloscopes, digitizers, GPUs, and spectrum analyzers.
• Programming experience with CUDA, C++, Fortran, or Python.
• Demonstrated technical leadership, team leadership, organization, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related engineering or science field with 12+ years of experience, master’s degree with 8+ years, PhD with 5+ years, or equivalent education and experience.
• Ability to work on-site in Longmont, United States.

Nice to have

• Queuing theory or AI expertise.
• Magnetic recording knowledge, including recording physics and head, media, preamp, and channel interactions.

Culture & Benefits

• On-site cafeteria, espresso bar, fitness center, walking path, and sporting activities.
• Employee resource groups and community service opportunities.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and retirement benefits, including 401(k).
• Employee stock purchase plan, health savings account, dependent care, and healthcare spending accounts.
• Paid time off, 12 holidays, paid sick leave, and 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Eligibility for a discretionary bonus program.