Machine Performance & Controls Engineering Specialist (Control Systems)

Location: Clayton, North Carolina, United States; onsite five days a week. Domestic relocation assistance is available for qualified candidates. Travel of 5–10% domestically and internationally is expected. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Salary: $128,470–$192,710 per year.

Company

hirify.global develops construction equipment and related technologies through its Building Construction Products division.

What you will do

• Define, execute, and deliver control-system and user-interface features for Small Wheel Loader new product introductions and lifecycle support.
• Collaborate with engine, hydraulic, mechanical, and software engineering teams to optimize machine performance and reliability.
• Translate machine-level functional requirements into detailed software and hardware specifications.
• Evaluate controls, automation, and user-interface solutions on machines against feasibility and performance targets.
• Improve control-system architecture, diagnostics, and operator interfaces.
• Support new product, continuous improvement, and new technology introduction initiatives involving autonomy, electrification, connectivity, and machine automation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Computer Science; Electrical, Mechanical, Mechatronics, Robotics, or a related field is preferred.
• Extensive controls-engineering experience, preferably with off-highway, construction, mining, or automotive equipment.
• Strong understanding of hydraulic systems, electronic control modules, and embedded software development.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, decision-making, critical-thinking, and technical communication skills, including communication with culturally diverse work groups.
• Ability to identify gaps and next actions, resolve issues with minimal oversight, evaluate alternatives with stakeholders, anticipate risks, and make timely recommendations.
• Knowledge of product-development methods covering requirements, design, integration, testing, production, and product support.
• Ability to facilitate collaboration across global teams and resolve complex technical issues.

Nice to have

• Experience tuning complex control and hydraulic systems on machines, with system-level ownership of requirements, performance, and customer outcomes.
• Experience converting customer, competitive, field, and engineering insights into product improvements.
• Experience leading technology, performance, or integration projects from concept through production across engineering, product, commercial, and manufacturing organizations.
• Software and controls design experience, including interpreting and evaluating implementations in MATLAB, C, and Simulink.
• Hydraulic system design or testing experience.
• Experience using Vector CANape to adjust control parameters and validate construction-machine behavior.
• Experience with ADAS or machine collision-mitigation system development.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time, five-day onsite office schedule at the Clayton Machine Design Center.
• Medical, dental, vision, paid time off, 401(k), HSA, FSA, disability, life insurance, parental and adoption benefits, and employee assistance programs, subject to eligibility.
• Career development, tuition reimbursement, health lifestyle programs, voluntary benefits, employee discounts, and incentive bonus opportunities.
• Employment is contingent on successfully completing a drug screen.