Sales Engineer (Power Electronics)

Location: Scotts Valley, United States; On-site

Company

hirify.global is a startup developing power electronics for the modern electric grid, including converters, inverters, and rectifiers for large-scale renewables, energy storage, and electrical loads.

What you will do

• Partner with Sales to qualify opportunities and define product concepts around customer needs.
• Serve as the technical lead during customer calls, site visits, and design reviews.
• Develop site-specific designs covering system sizing, storage configuration, single-line diagrams, and layouts.
• Prepare technical proposals, pricing inputs, and responses to RFPs and RFIs.
• Bring customer feedback to engineering and product teams to improve offerings.
• Build tools, templates, and processes for scaling the Sales Engineering function.

Requirements

• Degree in engineering or a technical field; electrical engineering, power systems, or power electronics preferred.
• 1–3 years of hands-on experience with energy products such as EVs, energy storage systems, power electronics, or utility equipment.
• Working knowledge of AC power systems, voltage levels, transformers, and grid interconnection basics.
• Strong modeling and analysis skills, including coding and/or Excel.
• Ability to explain technical tradeoffs clearly to customers and engineers.
• Experience with MV equipment, BESS, utility-scale solar or storage projects, customer-facing technical roles, proposals, system designs, or single-line diagrams.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with interconnection processes, utility requirements, IEEE 1547, or IEEE 2800.
• Experience at a utility or with distribution system modeling.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative environment focused on personal, technical, and career growth.
• Work driven by first-principles engineering and solving difficult problems.
• Competitive salary, equity, and benefits.
• Opportunity to build and grow the Sales Engineering function as its first hire.