AI Architect

Location: New York, NY. Applicants must be eligible to live and work in the United States.

Salary: $155,000–$175,000 USD annually, plus bonus and benefits.

Company

hirify.global provides in-depth journalism for leaders in technology and business and serves a community of 700,000 active readers.

What you will do

• Own and operate existing AI pipelines, including failure response, job triage, retries, and platform reliability.
• Complete the migration of legacy workflows to the primary AI orchestration platform.
• Design and implement high-fan-out pipelines that support horizontal workflows across users and items.
• Establish pipeline onboarding patterns covering job subclasses, registries, batch fan-out, and automated reporting.
• Drive decisions on data storage, queue partitioning, concurrency throttling, cost controls, and LLM provider integration.
• Partner with product, editorial, growth, and engineering teams while mentoring engineers and leading technical proposals.

Requirements

• 5+ years building production applications with a modern backend web framework such as Rails, Django, or similar.
• Experience designing idempotent, retryable, fan-out job pipelines with batching, concurrency controls, dead-letter handling, and queue partitioning.
• Hands-on experience with multiple LLM providers, structured output, embeddings, prompt engineering, and cost tracking.
• Experience operating vector databases for similarity matching at scale and migrating embedding models.
• Production experience with cloud PaaS environments, relational databases, caching or queueing infrastructure, and observability tools.
• Experience authoring technical designs, making build-versus-buy decisions, and creating platforms intended for extension by other engineers.

Nice to have

• 5+ years of Ruby or Ruby on Rails experience.
• Experience migrating workflows from a Python-based orchestration framework to a Ruby-based framework.
• Familiarity with agent orchestration, LLM tracing, state machine libraries, AI alerting, and notification systems.
• Experience with media or publishing AI applications and retrieval-augmented generation pipelines.

Culture & Benefits

• Company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
• Fertility care, $0 in-office mental health copays with in-network providers, and paid parental leave.
• Paid time off that increases with tenure and a 401(k) plan with employer matching.
• Flexible Spending Accounts, fitness and wellness stipend, cell phone reimbursement, commuter benefits, and company-sponsored Monday lunches in the office.
• Supportive, inclusive, and diverse work environment with a zero-tolerance harassment policy.