Research Engineer - Performance (Golf Equipment)

Location: Carlsbad, California, United States; hybrid office, lab, field-testing, and Tour-support environment with regular travel to test facilities, player testing sessions, and PGA/LPGA Tour events.

Annual base pay: $88,000–$100,000, with potential additional benefits and performance bonuses.

Company

hirify.global develops golf equipment and focuses on product performance, innovation, and continuous improvement.

What you will do

• Design and execute advanced performance testing protocols for golf clubs and balls across laboratory, player, field, and Tour environments.
• Own performance engineering activities for product categories such as woods, irons, putters, and wedges.
• Support PGA and LPGA Tour and elite-athlete testing by collecting clean, repeatable, decision-ready data.
• Analyze testing datasets covering ball speed, launch, spin, consistency, delivery, impact location, dispersion, and performance tradeoffs.
• Translate player and Tour observations into engineering recommendations, validation plans, product questions, and follow-up experiments.
• Develop automated data pipelines, dashboards, reporting tools, test methods, instrumentation, and repeatable workflows.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in engineering, applied mathematics, physics, data science, computer science, or a related technical field.
• Master’s degree plus 0–2 years of relevant experience, or Bachelor’s degree plus 2–4 years of relevant experience.
• Experience designing statistically rigorous experiments, including power analysis, Design of Experiments, measurement system analysis, and confidence-based decision-making.
• Experience with golf launch monitors, motion capture, or high-speed video analysis, plus familiarity with ANOVA, regression modeling, and machine learning.
• Strong golf background and understanding of equipment-player interaction; a low single-digit handicap is preferred.
• Ability to work across lab, field, player-facing, and cross-functional environments, including around confidential prototypes and elite athletes.

Nice to have

• Low single-digit golf handicap.
• Experience applying AI-assisted workflows to experimental planning, statistical analysis, test automation, reporting, and synthesis of engineering datasets.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work across office, laboratory, field-testing, and Tour-support settings.
• Collaboration with R&D, Product Development, Tour, Fitting, Consumer Insights, and Analytics teams.
• Health and wellness benefits, performance bonuses, product discounts, holidays, and paid time off may be available.
• Opportunities to train engineers and player test analysts on testing standards and elite-athlete interactions.
• Extended hours may be required during testing cycles, product deadlines, player-test windows, and Tour-related activities.