Principal OT Engineer

Location: Torrance, California, United States; travel to the Orangeville, Utah facility approximately 15% of the time. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States as a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident.

Salary: $200,000–$240,000 USD per year.

Company

hirify.global is a young advanced-energy startup developing scalable, high-temperature nuclear power, fuel fabrication, and related industrial systems.

What you will do

• Lead technical investigations of consequential failures and complex integration problems across physical, software, network, and data dependencies.
• Support implementation, commissioning, troubleshooting, and recovery work across OT Engineering systems.
• Test competing explanations against incomplete or conflicting evidence, establish supported causes, and verify recovery.
• Develop and review architectures, detailed designs, standards, requirements, procedures, and acceptance methods.
• Resolve technical gaps between disciplines and involve specialists when additional expertise is needed.
• Turn major failures and field lessons into improved designs, usable procedures, and reusable technical knowledge.

Requirements

• Broad practical capability across power and rack infrastructure; compute, storage, and virtualization; networking; industrial backends and data; Windows domains and access control; centralized services; cybersecurity; and log and packet analysis.
• Deep hands-on expertise in several disciplines, including resolving difficult cross-system failures, evaluating incomplete evidence, and verifying recovery when established procedures are insufficient.
• Experience authoring and validating designs, standards, requirements, procedures, and acceptance criteria with sound engineering judgment.
• Technical leadership of complex integration, commissioning, or recovery work, supported by usable technical records.
• Broad departmental coverage is preferred over deep specialization.
• Ability to maintain disciplined task tracking, accurate documentation, clear priorities, and reliable follow-through.
• Ability to move between urgent hands-on work and sustained design work while leaving maintainable systems and documentation.

Nice to have

• Experience developing reusable architectures or technical standards across multiple facilities or programs.
• Experience turning lessons from major incidents into tested recovery practices adopted by multiple teams.
• Deep expertise in additional disciplines or product families beyond the required breadth.

Culture & Benefits

• High-impact startup environment with significant ownership and autonomy.
• Competitive base salary and equity ownership.
• Comprehensive medical benefits and unlimited PTO.
• Free daily lunch and dinner provided onsite, plus a generous PPE stipend.
• Opportunities for rapid career growth, internal advancement, and direct collaboration with experienced operators, engineers, and industry leaders.