Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Location: Remote within Romania

Company

hirify.global is a technology services company headquartered in Cluj-Napoca, with offices in Oradea and more than 1,200 IT professionals delivering software development and managed services for major retail, manufacturing, finance, and banking clients.

What you will do

• Assess client and internal project contexts to identify AI practices, tools, and agentic solutions that can create measurable value.
• Translate business and engineering needs into AI adoption opportunities and drive them through implementation and operationalization.
• Integrate AI practices into software development, testing, QA, and operational workflows.
• Facilitate workshops, onboarding, and enablement sessions for engineers and project stakeholders.
• Implement or adapt reference solutions and accelerators, provide post-rollout support, and resolve technical or adoption issues.
• Measure adoption, share lessons with the AI R&D function, and create reusable rollout playbooks, patterns, documentation, and guidance.

Requirements

• Strong software engineering and software delivery lifecycle fundamentals, including architecture, APIs, testing, maintainability, and production software.
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted software development, AI agents, agentic workflows, and LLM APIs or model integration.
• Experience with CI/CD, AI system evaluation and testing, software quality practices, production support, troubleshooting, observability, and monitoring.
• Ability to understand business and engineering requirements, interview stakeholders, challenge assumptions, and propose pragmatic solutions.
• Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences, with high ownership, autonomy, and comfort operating in ambiguous contexts.
• Awareness of security, privacy, and responsible AI considerations.

Nice to have

• LLM-based application development and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).
• Tool or function calling and protocols such as MCP.
• API design and integration, data pipelines, and data management.
• Containers, cloud-native development, and AI-enabled development workflows.
• Experience with Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, .NET, or similar languages.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive, respectful, and merit-based workplace focused on diversity, skills, and performance.
• Medical benefits, gym support, personalised fitness options, team events, and a Healthy Habits Club.
• Flexible work-life arrangements designed around individual needs.
• Programs supporting physical, emotional, and social wellbeing.
• Hybrid community activities that support connection through shared work and interests.