Founding AI/ML Engineer

Location: On-site in San Francisco, California, 6 days per week. Relocation assistance is available for candidates outside the Bay Area.

Salary: $130,000–$170,000 annually, plus founding-hire equity.

Company

hirify.global is a pre-seed AI recruiting marketplace connecting candidates with roles through intelligent matching.

What you will do

• Own the AI/ML intelligence layer, including recommendation, ranking, and retrieval systems.
• Build and iterate on LLM-powered matching to improve candidate-role alignment.
• Take features from problem definition through production on a daily shipping cadence.
• Architect and maintain production data pipelines and model-serving services.
• Work directly with the founding team to translate product goals into shipped systems.

Requirements

• 2–5 years of production software engineering experience with applied machine learning depth.
• Production experience building recommender systems, ranking algorithms, or ML-powered matching.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript or Python.
• Production experience with LLM APIs and LLM-powered features.
• Experience building and maintaining production data pipelines and services, plus strong computer science fundamentals.
• Must hold existing U.S. work authorization or be eligible for available sponsorship routes.

Nice to have

• Experience with React, Supabase, Prisma, Typesense, trigger.dev, embeddings, or vector search.
• Strong open-source contributions, notable personal projects, or a rigorous computer science background.

Culture & Benefits

• Founding engineering role with end-to-end ownership of the product's core intelligence layer.
• Fast-paced, unstructured pre-seed startup environment.
• Founding-hire equity.
• Visa sponsorship is available for eligible candidates.
• Relocation assistance is available for candidates outside the Bay Area.