Lead OT Engineer - Power Conversion

Location: Torrance, California, United States; onsite work is indicated by onsite meals and site-based commissioning responsibilities.

Salary: $160,000–$210,000 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

• Own the power-conversion program's daily OT work plan, team workload, and delivery commitments.
• Sequence work around equipment availability, vendor deliverables, integration needs, testing windows, and site readiness.
• Assign work, set expectations, coach team members, provide feedback, and address missed commitments within delegated authority.
• Coordinate infrastructure implementation, commissioning support, maintenance, and turnover with equipment and program stakeholders.
• Maintain as-built structured-cabling drawings for site and power-conversion network systems.
• Resolve execution obstacles, escalate constraints, and track engineering and acceptance decisions, testing, and records through completion.

Requirements

• Direct people-management or supervisory experience, including assignments, expectations, coaching, feedback, and accountability for completion.
• Experience coordinating concurrent technical or operational work involving specialists, vendors, resources, schedules, and dependencies.
• Ability to maintain clear priorities, realistic work plans, accurate status and issue records, and dependable follow-through under pressure.
• Experience removing delivery obstacles, escalating consequential issues, and coordinating handoffs against engineers' requirements and acceptance decisions within delegated authority.
• Experience sequencing equipment, vendor, integration, and testing dependencies with clear readiness and escalation decisions.
• Technical specialization is preferred, not required; qualified nontechnical people managers are eligible, and hands-on engineering execution is not required.
• Highly proficient in contractor management and leading a team that is majority contractors for a period of time.
• Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States as a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident.

Nice to have

• Experience leading delivery, commissioning, services, or maintenance work for power-generation or heavy-equipment programs.
• Experience coordinating vendors, equipment interfaces, and site test schedules.
• Familiarity with industrial OT infrastructure or power-conversion equipment.

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 onsite lunch and dinner plus a generous PPE stipend.
• Opportunities for rapid career growth and internal advancement.
• Direct collaboration with operators, engineers, and industry leaders while building advanced energy technology.