Hardware Technical Program Manager (AI Hardware)

Location: Based at the San Jose office or willing to relocate to the San Jose, California area; approximately 50% travel to vendor sites in Asia.

Salary: $200,000–$400,000 annual US base salary.

Company

hirify.global is an artificial intelligence company developing multimodal intelligence and next-generation hardware as a unified interface between people and machines.

What you will do

• Lead manufacturing operations across final assembly and subassembly sites.
• Prepare and execute hardware builds with engineering teams and contract manufacturers.
• Manage supplier, OEM, and contract manufacturer selection and qualification, including RFQs, SOWs, tooling, capacity, and recovery plans.
• Coordinate fixture and test readiness, DOE plans, data capture, factory priorities, and escalations with the Asia-based program manager.
• Drive factory root-cause investigations and closure through design, tooling, and process changes.
• Track non-material costs, yields, and quality targets while communicating with engineers, executives, and external partners.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience as a technical or engineering program manager in consumer electronics hardware.
• At least two products taken from architecture through mass production, plus hands-on NPI experience.
• Technical depth in at least one hardware area: camera, display, enclosure and mechanical, battery, acoustics, or antenna.
• Experience managing contract manufacturers and component suppliers, including selection, qualification, tooling, capacity planning, and schedules.
• Knowledge of capability studies, Cp/Cpk, yield and defect Pareto analysis, DOEs, and gauge R&R.
• Must be based in or willing to relocate to the San Jose, California area; comfortable working across the U.S.–Asia time gap and traveling internationally.

Nice to have

• Experience with first-generation products such as wearables, foldables, new display or sensing technologies, or AI hardware.
• Camera module NPI experience.
• Experience with cosmetic-critical enclosures, finishing processes, glass, ceramics, or sapphire.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to be the first Hardware Technical Program Manager and help grow a global TPM team.
• Close collaboration with product design, electrical, systems, supply chain, contract manufacturing, and supplier teams.
• Work spanning San Jose engineering operations and manufacturing partners in Asia.
• Additional compensation components and benefits may be included depending on the specific role.