CAD Admin (PTC Creo/Windchill)

Location: San Leandro, California, United States. Other location: Los Lunas.

Salary: $140,000–$180,000 USD base salary per year, plus equity and benefits.

Company

hirify.global is a startup developing pulser-driven inertial fusion systems and components for abundant, affordable clean energy.

What you will do

• Administer, configure, maintain, and optimize Creo Parametric and related CAD tools.
• Manage licensing, user accounts, access permissions, server deployments, updates, and coordination with IT and PLM administration.
• Build and maintain CAD libraries, seed files, drawing templates, start parts, modeling standards, and COTS component catalogs.
• Define and enforce CAD modeling, layer, parametric modeling, and drawing standards across the organization.
• Provide troubleshooting for CAD crashes, performance bottlenecks, workspace synchronization issues, assembly corruption, file dependencies, and dataset integrity problems.
• Train and support engineers, technicians, and contractors while advancing automation for drawing creation and initial checking.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in CAD administration, CAD system engineering, or CAD/PLM application support in a hardware design or manufacturing environment.
• Deep administrative expertise with major CAD platforms such as PTC Creo Parametric, SolidWorks, or Altium and their configuration tools.
• Hands-on experience managing CAD-to-PLM integrations, specifically PTC Windchill CAD Data Management, PDMLink, or Workgroup Managers.
• Experience building and managing CAD part libraries, start parts, design templates, and modeling standards.
• Strong diagnostic and troubleshooting skills for complex client-side CAD issues, file dependencies, and dataset integrity.
• Proactive, self-starting, and capable of working through ambiguity in a first-of-a-kind research project.
• Excellent communication and customer-service skills for supporting scientists and engineers across functions.
• Access to certain information or technology may require classification as a U.S. Person under U.S. export-control laws, including U.S. citizenship, U.S. nationality, lawful permanent residence, or qualifying asylee or refugee status.

Nice to have

• Experience with CAD automation, scripting such as Creo Toolkit, Python, or VB.net, or macro development.
• Experience managing CAD/PLM environments in a complex hardware startup or national laboratory such as SNL, LANL, or LLNL.

Culture & Benefits

• Work at the intersection of design engineering, IT, and PLM on a first-of-a-kind fusion research project.
• Equity plan.
• 6% employer 401(k) matching.
• Paid time off, including sick leave, vacation, and paid family leave.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Equal-opportunity employer providing reasonable accommodations during application and employment.