Senior Software Engineer (Semiconductor)

Location: Santa Clara, CA, United States of America; travel required for 10% of the time; relocation eligible.

Salary: $152,000–$208,500 per year.

Company

hirify.global develops materials science and engineering solutions and equipment for semiconductor chips and advanced displays, including technologies supporting AI and next-generation semiconductor commercialization.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, production-quality software for complex, data-intensive applications.
• Build solutions for large-scale data processing, storage, distribution, and visualization.
• Design microservices, REST APIs, and distributed applications, including efficient processing pipelines.
• Optimize software for performance, scalability, reliability, and maintainability across Windows and Linux.
• Diagnose complex issues across applications, services, databases, networking, and infrastructure.
• Participate in architecture, design, and code reviews while collaborating with distributed engineering teams and providing technical guidance when appropriate.

Requirements

• 7+ years of production software development experience, including large-scale or data-intensive systems; 5+ years with a PhD, 7+ years with an MS, or 10+ years with a BS.
• BS/MS or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience with distributed systems, large-scale data processing, databases, microservices, and modern software architectures.
• Strong experience with several of C++, Java, C#, microservices and distributed systems, multithreading and concurrency, performance optimization, Apache Spark or Kafka, PostgreSQL or MongoDB, Windows and Linux, React or Angular, REST APIs, CI/CD, automated testing, monitoring, and diagnostics.

Nice to have

• Experience developing large-scale distributed systems or data-intensive applications.
• Strong software architecture and system-design skills, including performance optimization and complex system troubleshooting.
• Experience with containerization and modern deployment technologies.
• Experience working with globally distributed engineering teams.
• Domain knowledge or prior experience in semiconductor inspection, semiconductor manufacturing, or related semiconductor technologies.

Culture & Benefits

• Supportive work culture with opportunities to learn, develop, and grow while solving challenging engineering problems.
• Comprehensive employee benefits supporting health and wellbeing.
• Additional compensation may include bonus and stock award programs, as applicable.
• Regular full-time employment with 10% travel and relocation eligibility.