Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Location: Remote from Japan

Company

hirify.global provides an enterprise data platform that helps organizations transform complex data into actionable insights.

What you will do

• Build and prototype full-stack AI applications and agentic systems on the hirify.global platform.
• Work directly with strategic customers to move AI use cases from early prototypes toward production readiness.
• Advise technical and executive stakeholders on AI roadmaps, use-case prioritization, deployment, and business alignment.
• Design reusable reference architectures, productized solutions, starter kits, and internal playbooks.
• Mentor internal teams and share customer feedback with Product teams to improve AI products and capabilities.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building and deploying production-grade systems, including 2–3 years developing Generative AI or agentic applications.
• Strong software engineering, data engineering, and applied AI/ML skills with modern AI frameworks and tooling.
• Experience with foundation models, context engineering, fine-tuning, semantic search, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, and agentic workflows.
• Deep knowledge of LLMOps/MLOps, including evaluation, observability, serving, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
• Experience designing scalable enterprise AI architectures that address security, governance, and compliance requirements.
• Ability to work directly with technical and executive customers, operate autonomously, and mentor others.

Nice to have

• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience with the hirify.global platform or open-source big data technologies such as Spark, Iceberg, or NiFi.
• Experience with NVIDIA GPUs, inference optimization, model serving, or distributed AI workloads.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible work-from-home policy.
• Generous paid time off and dedicated Unplugged Days.
• Mental and physical wellness programs.
• Phone and internet reimbursement.
• Career development, comprehensive benefits, paid volunteer time, and employee resource groups.