Senior Manager, Power Electronics Controls and Software (BESS)

Location: San Francisco, California, United States; onsite work model

Salary: $262,500–$347,500 USD annually; compensation is commensurate with experience.

Company

hirify.global recovers, refines, and redeploys critical minerals from end-of-life batteries and develops proprietary energy architecture for battery energy storage and second-life battery projects.

What you will do

• Own the software and controls roadmap across multiple power electronics programs from topology selection and concept through EVT/DVT/PVT, mass manufacturing, commissioning, and field maintenance.
• Lead the design and optimization of closed-loop controllers for bidirectional DC/DC and AC/DC stages, including DAB, LLC, CLLC, Flying Capacitor, and ANPC topologies.
• Direct grid-forming and grid-following algorithms, virtual synchronous machine dynamics, black-start capabilities, and power and thermal balancing across heterogeneous battery assets.
• Oversee deterministic bare-metal, multi-core firmware for ARM Cortex-R/M and DSP targets, including interrupt, PWM, ADC, DMA, and hardware-abstraction architecture.
• Establish safety-critical architecture for functional isolation, memory protection, freedom from interference, fault-tolerant state machines, and compliance with UL 1741, UL 1973, and IEEE 1547.
• Build field telemetry and fleet feedback systems, collaborate across hardware and thermal disciplines, and recruit and mentor controls and embedded firmware engineers.

Requirements

• MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a closely related field specializing in Power Electronics, Control Systems, or Embedded Systems.
• 10+ years of industry experience shipping high-power conversion systems, including 5+ years leading highly technical engineering teams.
• Deep theoretical and practical knowledge of DAB, LLC, CLLC, Flying Capacitor, ANPC, frequency-domain loop shaping, Bode/Nyquist analysis, state-space modeling, discrete-time z-domain implementation, and active damping.
• Architectural mastery of bare-metal firmware in C and/or Rust on ARM Cortex-R/M or real-time DSP platforms, including multi-core memory architecture, lock-free concurrency, CAN/CAN-FD, SPI, Ethernet, UART, and cycle-accurate profiling and debugging.
• Expertise with PLECS, MATLAB/Simulink, Python for data analysis and test automation, Typhoon HIL, Opal-RT, and CI/CD build systems using CMake and Git-based workflows.
• Demonstrated experience taking complex high-power hardware/software systems from mathematical modeling and bring-up through regulatory certification, volume manufacturing, and long-term field support.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with compensation based on experience, education, and skills.
• Work is performed onsite from the San Francisco office.
• Work focuses on first-principles problem-solving, deep technical rigor, and high-velocity engineering.
• The role includes building and mentoring an engineering team and supporting deployed systems through field maintenance and fleet-wide control updates.