Regional Principal Product Application Engineer (PCIe/CXL)

Location: San Jose, California, United States. The role supports customers in the China region and requires working approximately from 12:00 PM to 9:00 PM PST for real-time collaboration with Asia Pacific stakeholders.

Base salary: $185,000–$240,000 per year, depending on experience, level, and business need. Discretionary bonus, incentives, and benefits may also be available.

Company

hirify.global provides rack-scale AI infrastructure through semiconductor-based connectivity solutions and software integrating PCIe, CXL, Ethernet, NVLink, and UALink technologies.

What you will do

• Provide technical guidance to customers and overcome design challenges involving semiconductor connectivity products.
• Support customer development, debugging, and design-in activities across the China region.
• Lead silicon and system bring-up, debug customer systems, and drive resolution of complex technical issues.
• Coordinate internal development teams, FAEs, sales teams, and customer stakeholders toward issue resolution.
• Generate technical collateral for existing and new products.
• Provide feedback to internal teams to improve products and processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering required; a Master’s degree is preferred.
• At least 3 years of experience designing in complex SoC or silicon products with high-speed interfaces, preferably PCIe.
• Strong knowledge of PCIe LTSSM at the physical-layer level, related standards, and debugging; PCIe 5.0 experience required, with PCIe 6.0 or CXL experience preferred.
• Experience with silicon or system bring-up and debugging in customer systems.
• Hands-on experience with protocol analyzers, exercisers, high-speed oscilloscopes, or BERTs.
• Full professional proficiency in written and spoken Mandarin is required for direct communication with China-region customers.

Nice to have

• Firmware development in C and scripting with Python or equivalent programming languages.
• Experience triaging issues across silicon, firmware, hardware board design, and system environments.
• Experience with data center BMC implementation, BIOS configuration, PCIe or Ethernet switches or retimers, and PCIe compliance testing.
• Understanding of data center systems, including servers, JBODs/JBOGs, networking switches, routers, and interconnects.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to support AI infrastructure and advanced semiconductor connectivity products.
• Collaboration with hyperscalers, ecosystem partners, customers, and regional development teams.
• Discretionary bonus, incentives, and benefits may be available.
• Commitment to diverse ideas, backgrounds, and experiences.