Staff Product Engineer, Enterprise AI

Location: Remote US; applicants must reside in the United States and have permanent US work authorization.

Salary: $185,000–$220,000 USD annually

Company

hirify.global is the nonprofit-owned company behind Thunderbird, developing open-source privacy-focused communication and productivity products.

What you will do

• Own Thunderbolt product features from concept and technical planning through launch, adoption, and iteration.
• Build complete full-stack capabilities for AI-powered chat, search, research, workflow automation, administration, integrations, and enterprise workflows.
• Translate user needs, partner feedback, product direction, and enterprise requirements into practical technical plans and shipped experiences.
• Collaborate with product, design, engineering, enterprise-facing teams, open-source contributors, and technical leadership.
• Use product signals, instrumentation, feedback, and support data to evaluate adoption, reliability, and value after launch.
• Establish reusable engineering patterns while balancing usability, maintainability, security, reliability, and delivery speed.

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including Staff-level scope, leadership, and impact.
• Strong full-stack experience across user interfaces, APIs, services, integrations, data flows, and infrastructure-adjacent areas.
• Experience building AI-enabled products involving LLMs, RAG, agents, model or provider abstraction, data connectors, retrieval systems, or AI application architecture.
• Experience owning complex product features from planning through implementation, launch, evaluation, and iteration.
• Strong understanding of software quality, testing, security, performance, reliability, maintainability, and product tradeoffs.
• Permanent US work authorization is required; visa sponsorship is not provided.

Nice to have

• Experience with self-hosted, hybrid, customer-controlled, or regulated deployment environments.
• Familiarity with the EU AI Act, Cyber Resilience Act, GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, or similar frameworks.
• Experience with enterprise customers, public sector organizations, systems integrators, technical partners, or customer-facing engineering.
• Experience with reusable product patterns, component libraries, instrumentation, observability, or experimentation.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work with schedule flexibility.
• Collaboration with a distributed staff, open-source community, contractors, and external contributors across time zones.
• Company-provided laptop, annual bonus, monthly remote work stipend, and professional development stipend.
• 24 days of paid time off, wellbeing days, public holidays, paid sick and parental leave, and a year-end shutdown.
• 401(k) contributions, health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance, plus an employee assistance program.

Hiring process

• Submit a cover letter and screening responses through the career page.
• Responses should reflect the candidate’s own experience and perspective; generic AI-generated answers may disqualify applicants.