Senior Engineer (AI)

Location: Remote within North America; at least 6 hours of overlap with PST, from 8 am to 2 pm PST

Salary: $200,000–$220,000 USD base salary, with potential equity participation

Company

hirify.global provides AI-powered intelligence solutions that help public and private sector agencies investigate illicit activity, disrupt crime, and understand threat networks.

What you will do

• Work directly with intelligence analysts to understand workflows, constraints, and goals, then translate them into scalable technical solutions.
• Identify high-impact opportunities to improve intelligence collection and productize solutions for durable adoption.
• Design, build, and own AI-powered internal applications, including backend services, APIs, data storage, infrastructure, and user interfaces.
• Develop agentic solutions using modern models such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini.
• Own projects end to end, including architecture, scoping, delivery, iteration, and ongoing support.
• Build reliable systems, evaluate their impact, and provide on-call support for internal tools.

Requirements

• 6+ years of full-stack software engineering experience building scalable web applications, services, and APIs.
• Strong product sense and the ability to identify high-impact, scalable solutions that users continue to adopt.
• Proficiency in Python and/or JavaScript/TypeScript, with strong backend and systems engineering skills.
• Experience with backend systems, APIs, and datastores such as Postgres, pgvector, Pinecone, and Redis.
• Hands-on experience with AI tools, modern AI models, agentic IDEs, or AI-enabled workflows and prototypes.
• Strong ownership, independent execution in ambiguous environments, and clear communication with semi-technical stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Background in backend and systems engineering or data and machine-learning-focused engineering.
• Experience working with intelligence analysts or building tools for internal users.

Culture & Benefits

• Weekly sprint schedule with opportunities to lead projects as a technical anchor.
• Psychological safety, trust-based collaboration, accountability, and a high engineering bar.
• Distributed-first work environment with hubs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Washington D.C., London, and Singapore.
• Fast-paced work focused on AI, national security, and combating crime.
• Equity plan eligibility may be available.

Hiring process

• Recruiter introduction, hiring manager interview, and first-round technical or skills-focused interviews.
• Final interviews may include a case study, AI skills assessment, and Leadership Principles interview.
• References are completed before the offer stage.