Principal Engineer – Utility

Location: Boise, Idaho, or Pullman, Washington, United States

Salary: $209,000–$270,000 annually

Company

hirify.global develops products and solutions for the electric utility sector and related industries.

What you will do

• Lead the discovery, evaluation, and advancement of utility-sector technologies, applications, market opportunities, and growth initiatives.
• Conduct market analysis, technology benchmarking, competitive intelligence, customer engagement, and trend analysis.
• Build and manage a pipeline of strategic opportunities based on customer needs, market dynamics, industry developments, and technology advances.
• Translate market opportunities into product requirements and development initiatives with Product Management, Sales, Engineering Services, R&D, and other stakeholders.
• Influence product strategy, portfolio planning, technology roadmaps, business cases, value propositions, and technical narratives.
• Support customer adoption, market expansion, revenue growth, technical education, mentoring, intellectual property development, and industry engagement.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or an applicable discipline.
• 15+ years of experience and working knowledge in electric power systems or equivalent transferable industry experience.
• Recognized leadership and expertise in distribution protection and utility industry practices, with deep knowledge of power system protection and automation.
• Strong technical training, speaking, writing, documentation, customer service, collaboration, and mentoring skills.
• Willingness to travel as required by business needs.
• Satisfactory background check and negative drug test results.

Nice to have

• Master’s or PhD in an engineering discipline.
• Authorship and presentation of technical papers.
• US patents related to SEL’s mission.
• Registered Professional Engineer qualification.

Culture & Benefits

• Employee-owned company with an employer-funded ESOP and personal 401(k) options.
• Medical, prescription, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
• Paid holidays, vacation, sick leave, and paid family and medical leave covering 90% of pay.
• STEM courses, apprenticeships, tuition assistance, and engineering development programs.
• Additional wellness, fertility, adoption, and flexible spending benefits.