Senior Field Applications Engineer (FAE) (Embedded Systems)

Location: Canada, Ontario, home office. Remote customer support with travel to customer sites as required, typically 0–25% travel.

Annual base salary: $145,000–$195,000, plus restricted stock units and quarterly bonus payments.

Company

hirify.global is a global semiconductor technology company developing products and solutions for embedded, networking, security, and connected systems.

What you will do

• Advise strategic customers on system architecture, technology selection, product integration, and implementation decisions.
• Partner with sales teams to identify customer needs and drive technical design-in and design-win opportunities.
• Support customers from early architecture discussions and proof of concept through production launch and post-sales support.
• Deliver technical presentations, product demonstrations, training sessions, and architecture discussions for customers and partners.
• Analyze requirements involving software, firmware, interfaces, IP integration, FPGA or programmable logic, and SoC-based systems.
• Troubleshoot complex technical issues, provide market feedback to engineering and product management, and mentor junior FAEs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 7+ years of relevant design or applications experience in embedded systems, hardware, software, firmware, networking, FPGA, security, SoCs, or semiconductor technologies.
• Strong understanding of high-speed digital technologies and interfaces, including Ethernet, PCIe, CXL, high-speed SerDes, or SoC architectures.
• Experience delivering multiple hardware, firmware, software, or embedded systems designs from concept through production.
• Experience working directly with customers and cross-functional stakeholders, presenting technical concepts, solving problems, and influencing design decisions.
• Bilingual proficiency in English and French; willingness to travel to customer sites as required.

Nice to have

• Experience with customer architecture reviews, proof-of-concept activity, product design cycles, and design-in processes.
• Experience with FPGA development, logic development, IP integration, RTL-level concepts, or semiconductor design-in activity.
• Interest in embedded AI, edge computing, acceleration, machine learning at the edge, or AI-enabled embedded applications.
• Prior experience mentoring or leading technical teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Values-based culture emphasizing trust, empowerment, respect, diversity, communication, and community.
• Health benefits available from 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 technical and customer-facing career growth.