Open Source Engineer (AI)

Location: San Francisco, CA; on-site. Must be legally authorized to work in the United States; visa sponsorship is not currently available.

Salary: $235,000–$260,000 per year, plus competitive equity.

Company

hirify.global builds AI infrastructure that converts web pages into clean, LLM-ready markdown or structured data through an API.

What you will do

• Own the main hirify.global open source repository end to end, including issue triage, pull request reviews, releases, and documentation.
• Improve the self-hosting experience so the repository is easy to clone, run, and maintain.
• Build new context primitives, starting with anydoc, the document parsing engine.
• Define scope and API design for reusable primitives.
• Ship code and review pull requests every week while helping open source projects gain adoption.

Requirements

• 5+ years of engineering experience.
• A track record of maintaining a popular open source repository or making significant contributions to one.
• Experience owning a repository end to end, from issue triage and pull request reviews to releases and documentation.
• Experience building parsers, crawlers, browser tooling, or developer libraries.
• Strong judgment around scope, API design, and open source adoption.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States; visa sponsorship is not available at present.

Nice to have

• Experience as a maintainer, ex-founder, early startup engineer, or builder with impressive public work.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive equity and ownership in the product and company.
• 15 days of mandatory PTO, with additional time available by request, plus 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
• $100 monthly wellness stipend and up to $1,000 annually for professional learning and development.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, employer-paid life and disability insurance, 401(k), FSA, commuter benefits, telehealth, and pet insurance.
• Team offsites, a three-month paid sabbatical after four years, and San Francisco headquarters perks including meals and a loaner electric bike.

Hiring process

• Application review based on a resume and a link to shipped work.
• Introductory, technical, and founder conversations.
• A paid technical work trial lasting approximately one to two weeks, followed by a fast decision.