Principal Electrical Engineer (Force Sensing)

Location: San Jose, California, USA; hybrid with 4 days in the office and Friday remote. Up to 10% domestic and international travel, including customer and OEM visits in Asia and Europe.

Salary: $137,000–$225,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global develops force-sensing solutions that enable sealed, material-agnostic interfaces for consumer electronics, automotive systems, fitness trackers, and industrial display panels.

What you will do

• Lead schematic design, PCB layout, fabrication documentation, bills of materials, design reviews, component sourcing, and vendor management.
• Develop proof-of-concept demonstrations, prototypes, customer evaluation kits, sensor modules, and R&D test and evaluation boards.
• Integrate electrical, mechanical, software, firmware, and algorithm solutions into customer devices from concept through mass production.
• Perform hardware bring-up, board-level and system-level evaluation, characterization, debugging, competitor analysis, and failure analysis.
• Work with R&D teams on sensor and system testing, chip verification, and resolution of internal and customer system issues.
• Provide technical support and training to customers, sales teams, and field application engineers, and create technical documentation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 8+ years of relevant electronic design experience spanning proof-of-concept development through mass production.
• Proficiency with Altium, Cadence, or Siemens for schematic capture and PCB layout, with experience fabricating multiple boards.
• Hands-on experience with analog or mixed-signal circuits, sensors, embedded systems, firmware, or sensor signal post-processing.
• Experience with digital interfaces such as I2C, SPI, or UART; C/C++, Python, or similar languages; and laboratory equipment including oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, and multimeters.
• Strong technical documentation, communication, presentation, collaboration, customer-support, and time-management skills.

Nice to have

• Algorithm development experience.
• Semiconductor or automotive industry experience.
• Experience with AI/ML tools such as Claude.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-paced, multidisciplinary environment involving electrical, mechanical, software, MEMS, and CMOS engineering.
• Opportunity to work with OEMs on next-generation consumer, automotive, and industrial products.
• Exposure to the full product lifecycle, from concept design and proof-of-concept builds to mass production.
• Hybrid work arrangement with Friday remote and customer travel of up to 10%.