PCIe Switch Architect

Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, or San Jose, California, USA

Annual base salary: USD 143,800–230,000, plus discretionary annual bonus and equity awards.

Company

hirify.global’s DCSG division develops PCIe switch products for the industry.

What you will do

• Define, specify, and optimize PCIe switch architectures for near-term production and long-term product development.
• Write high-level architecture specifications and review micro-architecture specifications.
• Model performance, analyze workloads, and balance power, performance, and area trade-offs.
• Work with RTL design, verification, validation, firmware, and development teams to guide implementation and define test plans and coverage for complex architectural corner cases.
• Investigate and debug production issues, optimize performance, evaluate future features, and resolve hardware-software interaction problems.
• Contribute to industry standards workgroups and engage with customers and executive management on product direction and technical issues.

Requirements

• 12 or more years of hardware development experience, including at least 5 years focused on PCIe architecture.
• In-depth understanding of PCIe interface architecture.
• Experience leading debugging of complex hardware-software interaction and system-level performance issues.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including presenting complex problems and solutions to executive management.
• Ability to conduct low-level technical discussions with architecture peers and development teams and document architectural solutions clearly.
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science Engineering.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science Engineering.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on architecture work with close collaboration across design, verification, validation, firmware, and development teams.
• Medical, dental, and vision plans.
• 401(k) participation with company matching, ESPP, and EAP.
• Company-paid holidays, paid sick leave, vacation time, and applicable paid family and other leaves of absence.
• Discretionary annual bonus and competitive new-hire and annual equity awards.

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