Technical Staff Engineer–Applications (PCIe)

Location: Burnaby, Canada

Annual base salary: $107,000–$226,000 USD

Company

hirify.global develops semiconductor products and data-center solutions, including PCIe switches, storage controllers, RAID solutions, and CXL architectures.

What you will do

• Lead customer platform enablement for Switchtec PCIe switch products used in data-center and AI platforms.
• Define technical requirements, manage deliverables, and support platforms from board bring-up through production release.
• Debug complex hardware, firmware, and system-integration issues and develop hardware guides, reference designs, firmware updates, and software tools.
• Provide technical training and presentations to field teams and customer engineering groups while mentoring junior engineers.
• Lead customer engagements and collaborate with hardware, software, QA, product management, marketing, and sales teams.
• Travel to customer sites as needed to support debugging, deployment, and product integration; expected travel is 0%–25%.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering and 12+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Working knowledge of PCI Express and strong C and C++ programming skills.
• Experience developing and debugging software and firmware for multi-threaded architectures.
• Experience with UNIX and Windows driver development and embedded RTOS platforms such as ThreadX, VxWorks, or eCos.
• Customer-facing engineering experience involving technical support, issue analysis, and root-cause debugging.
• Hands-on experience with protocol analyzers, exercisers, logic analyzers, and other storage-related laboratory tools.

Nice to have

• Storage-industry experience and collaboration with marketing and sales teams.
• Experience with RISC-based embedded processors, preferably MIPS.
• Experience with WinDbg, JTAG, serial interfaces, oscilloscopes, multimeters, and Linux diagnostic utilities.
• Knowledge of server and storage architectures, microprocessors, I/O interfaces, and electronics hardware development.

Culture & Benefits

• Cross-functional collaboration with geographically distributed engineering and customer teams.
• Health benefits beginning on the first day of employment.
• Retirement savings plans, restricted stock units, quarterly bonuses, and an employee stock purchase program with a six-month look-back feature.
• Leadership and employee-development programs supporting long-term career growth.