R&D Manager, Project Leadership & Software (Firmware & Operating Systems)

Location: Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Salary: $147,050–$230,850 USD annually, with additional bonus and/or equity opportunities for United States of America candidates.

Company

hirify.global develops technology and advanced computing platforms, including hirify.global Z Workstations for professional, technical, and enterprise customers.

What you will do

• Lead firmware, operating system, platform software, and technical program management teams supporting hirify.global Z Workstation platforms.
• Own Remote System Controller firmware strategy and execution, Windows and Linux readiness, hardware enablement, driver integration, certification, platform optimization, security, and enterprise deployment support.
• Drive platform execution from architecture and bring-up through launch, sustaining updates, and lifecycle refreshes.
• Establish program governance, execution frameworks, schedules, milestones, budgets, resource plans, decision forums, and risk-management practices.
• Manage staffing, onboarding, performance, coaching, succession planning, career development, team budgets, suppliers, and external development partners.
• Coordinate with Architecture, Hardware, Software, Security, Quality, Manufacturing, Operations, Microsoft, Canonical, Red Hat, silicon providers, and ODMs to resolve issues and ensure platform readiness.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or graduate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline, or commensurate work experience and demonstrated competence.
• Typically 10+ years of job-related experience, including electronics or computer hardware/software development, technical program management, or a related technical development environment.
• Typically 8–10 years of management or technical leadership experience, including leadership of engineering functions, teams, and delivery across organizational or geographic boundaries.
• Experience managing project elements, resources, schedules, budgets, suppliers, and technical risks.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including presenting complex technical topics and readiness assessments to leadership audiences and guiding effective decisions.

Nice to have

• Experience with workstation-class platforms, enterprise PCs, high-performance computing systems, or other complex computing products.
• Experience leading system-level functional and lifecycle validation.
• Experience working across R&D, Quality, Manufacturing, suppliers, and customer engagement.
• Experience working with silicon partners and global original design manufacturers.

Culture & Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability, employee assistance, and flexible spending account benefits.
• Four to twelve weeks of fully paid parental leave based on tenure.
• Eleven paid holidays plus flexible paid vacation and sick leave.
• Engineering culture focused on collaboration, customer focus, technical innovation, ownership, disciplined execution, and continuous improvement.