Principal Project Engineer, Light Engines Electronics and Firmware

Location: San Diego, California, United States; onsite

Annual salary: $175,000–$225,000

Company

hirify.global is a startup developing next-generation light engine systems across electronics, firmware, software, and photonics engineering.

What you will do

• Own planning and execution of complex multidisciplinary development projects, including scope, schedule, budget, risks, and opportunities.
• Represent the company with customers and set technical direction with functional managers.
• Lead matrixed teams through uncertainty, schedule bottlenecks, changing requirements, and technical challenges.
• Direct electrical, firmware, and software development while establishing engineering practices across the organization.
• Manage requirements, design and test readiness reviews, integration and test events, reports, installation, and support activities.
• Mentor engineers and project leads and influence engineering strategy beyond individual projects.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. person as defined by 8 U.S.C. § 1324b(a)(3) because the role requires access to export-controlled information.
• Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of relevant experience, including pursuit of relevant higher education.
• Proven success leading complex electrical, firmware, and/or software development projects using a structured development process.
• Expertise in at least one technical area: electrical engineering, embedded firmware, software engineering, systems engineering, or control theory.
• Creativity, flexibility, willingness to wear multiple hats, and comfort building systems from the ground up amid ambiguity and change.

Nice to have

• Experience in a startup or technology company.
• Exposure to optics, photonics, opto-mechanics, or AMO physics.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment in a fast-paced startup environment with hands-on ownership and minimal oversight.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Fidelity 401(k) plan with 4% employer matching.
• 20 paid time-off days and 13 paid company holidays per year.
• 9/80 work schedule with every other Friday off.