Backend and Infrastructure Engineer (AI)

Location: Palo Alto, United States; hybrid

Salary: $165K–$180K per year

Company

hirify.global is an early-stage AI startup building operator intelligence infrastructure for semiconductor and hardware companies, including production-scale physics simulation and inference systems.

What you will do

• Design, build, and operate backend services and infrastructure for the simulation and inference platform.
• Own Terraform infrastructure-as-code across cloud environments.
• Build and harden CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins or an equivalent system.
• Maintain build systems for large Python and C++ codebases using CMake and pip/uv.
• Take early research prototypes through iterative hardening and customer-ready production deployment.
• Partner with physicists, AI researchers, software engineers, and computational geometry experts to turn research into dependable systems.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience focused on backend and infrastructure.
• Hands-on Terraform experience and production experience with a major cloud platform such as GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Experience building and maintaining Jenkins or equivalent CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficiency in Python and working familiarity with C++.
• Comfort with CMake, Python packaging via pip/uv, and large multi-language codebases.
• Experience contributing to a production data-processing or platform system, with strong software engineering, regression testing, and validation practices.

Nice to have

• Experience taking an early-stage prototype to production at a startup or national lab.
• Experience with ML or scientific-computing workloads, including PyTorch, NumPy, CUDA, or GPU infrastructure.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, observability tooling, frontend development, or 3D rendering and visualization.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a small, accessible team with significant ownership and autonomy.
• Architect foundational platform components alongside physicists, AI researchers, software engineers, and computational geometry experts.
• Contribute to greenfield development and scale infrastructure supporting Tier-1 semiconductor and hardware customers.
• Help accelerate physics-based design validation from hours to seconds while maintaining solver-grade accuracy.