Solutions Architect - Standards (Optical Interconnect)

Location: Remote, US; listed remote locations include Washington, Texas, and Minnesota. Up to 30% domestic and international travel. Relocation may be authorized.

Compensation: $188,251–$230,084, including base pay plus variable incentive pay if eligible.

Company

hirify.global develops products and technologies across global markets and enables collaboration among technical teams, customers, vendors, and industry organizations.

What you will do

• Represent hirify.global in optical interconnect standards organizations, including IEEE, IEC, OIF, APC, and EBO MSA.
• Lead and author technical contributions, implementation agreements, and draft specifications; serve as an editor or working-group contributor.
• Translate standards activity and ecosystem direction into actionable input for product and technology teams.
• Translate hirify.global technical capabilities into standards proposals and build technical partnerships with hyperscale data center customers, vendors, and MSA members.
• Build conceptual demonstrations and support technical marketing initiatives showcasing hirify.global EBO capabilities to hyperscale and data center audiences.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher, completed and verified before starting.
• At least five years of experience with optical interconnect, co-packaged optics, or data center connectivity technologies in a private, public, government, or military environment.
• Experience participating in or contributing to industry standards organizations or multi-source agreements, such as OIF, IEC, IEEE, or MSAs.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship for employment visa status.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical/Photonics Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Direct contributor, editor, or chair experience within OIF, IEC, IEEE 802.3, or an optical connectivity MSA.
• Strong technical communication, customer focus, self-direction, relationship building, innovation, and collaboration skills.
• Working knowledge of expanded beam optics, fiber-optic connector and ferrule design, high-speed SerDes, and co-packaged or pluggable optical modules.
• Experience with system architecture and optical interconnect integration for AI/ML infrastructure.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work in the US with domestic and international travel of up to 30%.
• Full-time employment with medical, dental, vision, health savings and flexible spending accounts, disability and life insurance, paid absences, and retirement benefits.
• US-based full-time employees must sign an agreement covering confidential information, trade secrets, conflicts of interest, and invention assignment; additional obligations may apply to Job Grade 7 or equivalent and above.
• Employees are expected to follow corporate policies, procedures, security standards, and environmental health and safety requirements.

Hiring process

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