Senior Manager, Automotive Systems Development

Location: San Jose, CA, United States; onsite

Annual base salary in California: $220,000–$270,000.

Company

hirify.global develops integrated power semiconductors and power delivery systems for customers worldwide.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end technical execution from system architecture and design planning through schematic and PCB development, prototyping, verification, qualification, design release, and production readiness.
• Develop automotive ECUs and integrated modules such as zonal controllers, infotainment ECUs, and audio amplifier ECUs, integrating power management products with processors, communications, sensing, and other system components.
• Perform technical reviews, bench debugging, root-cause analysis, design tradeoffs, and hardware validation.
• Build milestones and resource plans; coordinate project-based contributors across North America, Europe, China, and Taiwan and drive delivery with a small core team.
• Translate Automotive Marketing requirements into engineering specifications and communicate cost, performance, schedule, feasibility, and technical risks.
• Work with contract manufacturers and quality teams on DFM, DFT, production testing, prototype and pilot builds, engineering changes, qualification, and manufacturing ramp readiness.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related discipline.
• 6+ years of relevant hands-on experience developing complex electronic hardware or embedded systems.
• Strong fundamentals in system architecture, power electronics and power management, PCB design, interfaces, hardware bring-up, and validation.
• Demonstrated ownership of substantial hardware development deliverables, including practical debugging and cross-functional problem solving.
• Ability to drive work across teams without direct reporting authority, with strong organization, prioritization, and follow-through.
• Excellent written and spoken English required, with the ability to work effectively with internationally distributed teams.

Nice to have

• Experience delivering automotive ECUs or similarly demanding electronics into production with external manufacturing partners.
• Experience in agile hardware environments such as EV startups, robotics, industrial electronics, or lean automotive electronics companies.
• Experience with EMC, environmental qualification, automotive reliability, manufacturing test, and relevant functional safety processes.
• Working proficiency in Mandarin Chinese.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on, entrepreneurial engineering leadership role with a lean core team of approximately one to two direct reports.
• Collaboration with engineering contributors, marketing, quality teams, and contract manufacturers across multiple regions.
• Focus on creativity, sustainability, technical judgment, rapid execution, and production-ready hardware.
• Equal opportunity employment and commitment to diversity.