Staff Engineer (AI)

Location: Remote-first; Ottawa, Toronto, or Calgary preferred

Salary: $170,000–$190,000 CAD per year

Company

hirify.global is a health technology company providing practitioners and patients with clinical insights, lab interpretations, analytics, education, care-plan connectivity, and access to supplements.

What you will do

• Architect and build production-grade internal AI tools and shared platform capabilities.
• Design and deliver AI integrations using MCP-based tool use, agentic workflows, context layers, model gateways, and workflow automation.
• Take ambiguous business problems from discovery and architecture through implementation, deployment, measurement, and ongoing operation.
• Build infrastructure connecting approved models with internal systems, data, APIs, and workflows.
• Own reliability, scalability, observability, security, model routing, evaluation, access control, and responsible handling of sensitive data.
• Shape the technical roadmap and raise engineering capability through reviews, pairing, documentation, office hours, and technical guidance.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software development experience and demonstrated technical leadership on complex production systems.
• Hands-on experience building and operating AI-enabled applications in production, including MCP or comparable tool-use protocols, agents, context management, and LLM integrations.
• Experience building adopted internal tools, developer platforms, or enterprise systems with measurable operational impact.
• Deep backend engineering expertise in Ruby, Python, or a comparable language.
• Strong systems-design fundamentals covering APIs, integrations, distributed systems, data flows, authentication, authorization, and architectural trade-offs.
• Practical AWS or comparable cloud and DevOps experience with CI/CD, containers, serverless infrastructure, observability, and infrastructure as code.

Nice to have

• Experience with React, TypeScript, GraphQL, n8n, Temporal, or other workflow orchestration platforms.
• Familiarity with LLM evaluation and observability platforms such as Langfuse.
• Experience with GitLab CI/CD, Kubernetes, Cloudflare Workers, or similar deployment tooling.
• Experience building technology in healthcare or another regulated environment governed by HIPAA or SOC 2.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first flexibility with preferred locations in Ottawa, Toronto, or Calgary.
• Flexible paid time off and competitive compensation.
• RRSP/401k matching and a premium benefits package with customizable coverage, paramedical services, and an HSA.
• hirify.global product discounts and continuous learning opportunities.
• People-first, collaborative environment focused on curiosity, trust, inclusion, and measurable impact.

Hiring process

• Applications are submitted through the careers page.
• Background checks are required for successful offers.
• AI tools may support screening and response review, while final hiring decisions are made by people.