Technical Staff Engineer-Applications (PCIe)

Location: Burnaby, Canada; travel to customer sites as needed, approximately 0%–25%

Annual base salary: $86,000–$186,000, plus restricted stock units and quarterly bonuses

Company

hirify.global develops semiconductor, interconnect, storage, and embedded solutions for data centers, AI platforms, and other digital systems.

What you will do

• Lead customer platform enablement for Switchtec PCIe switch products across data-center and AI platforms.
• Support platform development from board bring-up through production release, working with hyperscale and storage customers.
• Debug complex system, firmware, and hardware integration issues and develop reference designs, hardware guides, firmware updates, and software tools.
• Deliver technical training and presentations to customer engineering groups and internal field teams, while mentoring junior engineers.
• Collaborate with hardware, software, QA, product management, marketing, and sales teams on requirements, deliverables, and product lifecycle management.
• Travel to customer sites to debug systems, support deployments, and ensure successful PCIe switch integration.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering and 8+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Working knowledge of PCI Express and strong C and C++ programming skills.
• Experience with firmware development, multithreaded debugging, and test scripting in Perl, Bash, or Python.
• Experience developing drivers for UNIX and Windows and firmware for embedded operating systems such as ThreadX, VxWorks, or eCos.
• Customer-facing engineering experience, including technical support, issue analysis, and root-cause debugging.
• Hands-on experience with protocol analyzers, exercisers, logic analyzers, and other storage or laboratory diagnostic tools.

Nice to have

• Storage-industry experience and collaboration with marketing and sales teams.
• Experience with RISC-based embedded processors, preferably MIPS.
• Kernel-level debugging with tools such as WinDbg, JTAG, and serial interfaces.
• Knowledge of server and storage architectures, microprocessors, I/O interfaces, electronics hardware, Linux diagnostics, oscilloscopes, and multimeters.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment within a large global technology organization.
• Health benefits starting on the first day.
• Retirement savings plans and an employee stock purchase program with a six-month look-back feature.
• Leadership and employee development programs focused on career growth.
• Total compensation includes base pay, restricted stock units, and quarterly bonus payments.