Distinguished Technologist (AI)

Location: Sunnyvale, California, USA or Northridge, California, USA. Hybrid schedule with regular in-office collaboration, typically three days onsite per week. Occasional domestic and international travel is required.

Salary: $240,000–$352,000 per year, excluding potential bonuses or commissions.

Company

hirify.global develops technology platforms and solutions across automotive, lifestyle, professional audio/video, and digital transformation markets, with a portfolio of global brands and collaboration with Samsung.

What you will do

• Act as a senior technical authority and provide independent judgment on strategically important technologies and architectures.
• Translate technology strategy into technical hypotheses, architectures, experiments, and capability-building programs.
• Lead advanced-technology initiatives from early exploration through technical and business validation and transition into business units.
• Identify technical discontinuities and opportunities that may affect hirify.global’s future competitiveness.
• Build focused technical teams and differentiated capabilities across hirify.global Research, Automotive, Lifestyle, Samsung, and external partners.
• Advise leaders on build, partner, acquire, and experiment decisions while representing hirify.global with technology companies, startups, academia, customers, and partners.

Requirements

• Exceptional hands-on technical depth across relevant domains such as physics, software, AI, machine learning, acoustics, materials science, or signal processing.
• Experience creating significant technologies, architectures, platforms, or products, rather than only managing teams that created them.
• Experience spanning research or advanced development and industrial-scale product development or productization.
• Broad systems thinking across software, hardware, and physical systems, including areas such as embedded systems, software platforms, UX/HMI, audio, sensing, compute, connectivity, and multi-physics systems.
• Significant technology leadership experience in complex organizations, including leading senior engineers, scientists, and technical leaders.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, commercial judgment, and cross-organizational influence skills.

Nice to have

• Advanced degree in engineering, computer science, physics, or a related discipline, or comparable experience.
• Experience across automotive, consumer electronics, professional audio/video, or adjacent technology markets.
• Experience in both a large global corporation and a technology company, startup, or entrepreneurial environment.
• Experience working with academia, startups, external research ecosystems, and strategic technology partners.
• International and cross-cultural leadership experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work environment balancing flexibility with in-person collaboration.
• Employee discounts on hirify.global and Samsung products.
• Learning and development through hirify.global University and tuition reimbursement.
• Medical, dental, vision, wellness, retirement savings, disability, life insurance, and leave benefits may be available.
• Access to campus fitness centers and cafeterias where available.