Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Location: Remote from 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 clients in retail, manufacturing, finance, and banking.

What you will do

• Assess project contexts and identify where AI practices, tools, and agentic solutions can create measurable value.
• Translate business and engineering needs into AI adoption initiatives and drive them through implementation and operationalization.
• Integrate AI practices into 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, document reusable rollout patterns, and share lessons learned with the AI R&D function.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience delivering production software, with experience operating at Senior or Tech Lead level.
• Strong software engineering and SDLC fundamentals, including architecture, APIs, testing, maintainability, delivery practices, and production support.
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted software development, AI agents, agentic workflows, LLM APIs, and model integration.
• Experience with CI/CD, AI system evaluation and testing, observability, monitoring, security, privacy, and responsible AI.
• Ability to understand unfamiliar systems, extract business and engineering requirements, challenge assumptions, and propose pragmatic solutions.
• Strong communication skills, autonomy, ownership, and comfort working across technical and non-technical stakeholders and changing contexts.

Nice to have

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

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive, merit-based workplace focused on diversity, respect, skills, and performance.
• Medical benefits, gym support, personalised fitness options, team events, and a Healthy Habits Club.
• Flexible approach to work-life integration within a hybrid community.
• Programs supporting emotional and social wellbeing.