Staff R&D Engineer - Technical Project Lead (Liquid Cooling)

Location: Hybrid in Anoka, Minnesota, United States; domestic travel up to 10%.

Salary: $105,000–$195,000 annually, with potential additional compensation such as annual incentives.

Company

hirify.global designs, manufactures, markets, installs, and services electrical connection and protection solutions for sensitive equipment, buildings, and critical processes.

What you will do

• Lead engineering ownership for liquid-cooling product programs, including in-row and in-rack CDUs, manifolds, and fluid-distribution solutions.
• Define system architecture, technical requirements, subsystem interfaces, design criteria, and verification plans.
• Drive cross-disciplinary integration across thermal/fluid, mechanical, electrical, controls, structural, manufacturing, reliability, cost, compliance, and technical risk.
• Lead technical design reviews, NPI readiness, prototyping, engineering builds, design verification, product validation, and production launch.
• Define product verification, validation, compliance, testing, certification, and results-evaluation strategies.
• Partner with Manufacturing, Quality, Supply, suppliers, Product Management, and Project Management; mentor multidisciplinary engineers without direct reporting authority.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related engineering field is required. A Master’s degree is preferred.
• 8+ years of hands-on engineering experience, including technical leadership of thermal-management, liquid-cooling, fluid-distribution, or comparable electromechanical products from requirements through production launch.
• Solid understanding of fluid mechanics, hydraulics, heat transfer, pumps, valves, heat exchangers, piping, fittings, sensors, and related system components.
• Experience developing system architectures and integrating mechanical and fluid systems with electrical and controls architectures.
• Experience with DFMEA, DFM/DFMA, DRBFM, technical readiness assessments, structured design reviews, and verification and validation methodologies.
• Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams, make technical trade-offs, and solve complex system-level problems using engineering fundamentals, analysis, test data, and structured problem-solving.
• Strong communication and influencing skills, including translating technical topics into decisions, risks, recommendations, and actions while mentoring engineers.
• Experience partnering with manufacturing teams and suppliers through prototype, validation, qualification, and production-launch activities.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related engineering field.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work environment with a global operating reach and career development opportunities.
• Health, dental, and vision plans; flexible spending accounts; disability, critical illness, accident, and life insurance.
• 401(k) retirement plan and employee stock purchase plan, both with company matching.
• Potential tuition reimbursement, caregiver and parental leave, backup care, paid time off including volunteer time, well-being programs, and legal and identity theft protection.
• Culture emphasizing innovation, integrity, customer focus, respect, teamwork, accountability, and inclusion.