Sr. Staff/ Principal Software Engineer - Building Automation Systems (IoT)

Location: Onsite in Kirkland, WA, United States

Salary: $170,000–$220,000 annually

Company

hirify.global develops integrated power semiconductors and systems power delivery architectures, including hardware, firmware, and software platforms for building automation and energy management.

What you will do

• Own the end-to-end architecture of the Kinexis Smart Building Automation platform across software, embedded firmware, device protocols, cloud services, data pipelines, and user applications.
• Define architectural standards for reliability, security, scalability, maintainability, and data integrity.
• Drive real-time control, sensor fusion, energy optimization algorithms, and building-level automation logic.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership across embedded, cloud, and application layers, including mission-critical firmware for controllers, sensors, and power modules.
• Build, mentor, and scale a high-performing software engineering organization.
• Partner with hardware, firmware, systems engineering, product, QA, manufacturing, field engineering, customers, and external teams to deliver integrated solutions.

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 5+ years in a senior technical leadership role.
• Proven experience building and scaling complex, multi-layered platforms combining software, embedded systems, cloud services, and applications.
• Strong background in embedded systems, real-time firmware, IoT connectivity, and device-to-cloud architectures.
• Expertise with modern cloud infrastructure such as AWS, Azure, or equivalent, and scalable backend design.
• Experience with building-automation communication protocols such as BACnet, Modbus, MQTT, BLE, Zigbee, or similar.
• Ability to lead teams, influence cross-functional stakeholders, and deliver high-reliability systems.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.

Nice to have

• Experience in building automation, industrial controls, energy management, or IoT device ecosystems.
• Familiarity with power electronics, sensor systems, or hardware-software co-design.
• Experience with OTA update systems, device provisioning, and secure embedded architectures.
• Prior leadership in high-growth or hardware-centric technology companies.
• Master’s degree in engineering or a related discipline.

Culture & Benefits

• Health care, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage.
• Stock compensation may be available for certain positions.
• Work in a technically focused semiconductor environment centered on creativity, sustainability, innovation, and leading-edge products.
• Collaborate across hardware, software, product, manufacturing, and field engineering functions.