Forward Deployed Engineer (AI)

Location: San Francisco or remote from the United States or Canada

Salary: $236,000–$289,000 per year, plus equity

Company

hirify.global builds a developer-first cloud platform for AI-native, full-stack, multi-service applications, combining persistent compute, autoscaling, orchestration, and observability.

What you will do

• Act as a dedicated technical partner for strategic customers through architecture reviews, migration planning, hands-on delivery, and ongoing technical coverage.
• Run scoped onboarding intensives for high-growth startups from intake and success criteria through hands-on execution.
• Lead Postgres architecture, performance tuning, replication, and complex migrations from Heroku, AWS, and other cloud providers.
• Drive production activation and expansion by connecting technical outcomes with adoption, renewal, and revenue.
• Conduct architecture and health reviews, roadmap sessions, incident follow-up, and root-cause analysis while serving as an escalation point for difficult technical issues.
• Define the FDE playbook, engagement templates, success metrics, reference architectures, and product feedback processes.

Requirements

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in a customer-facing engineering role such as forward deployed, solutions, customer, or professional services engineering.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and the ability to write production-quality code inside customer codebases.
• Deep experience with cloud infrastructure, containers, CI/CD, networking, autoscaling, and production workloads.
• Deep Postgres and database expertise, including schema design, performance tuning, replication, and production data migrations.
• Fluency with AI tools and a strong understanding of LLM application architectures.
• Excellent communication, self-direction, comfort with ambiguity, and commercial awareness connecting technical wins to expansion and revenue.

Nice to have

• Migration experience from Heroku, AWS, or other cloud providers.
• Hands-on experience shipping AI and LLM applications, including RAG pipelines, agent frameworks, or inference workloads.
• Experience as a first hire or founding member of a new program.

Culture & Benefits

• Environment centered on integrity, humility, learning, thoughtful debate, feedback, trust, and respect.
• Four weeks of paid vacation and 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents.
• Employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage, with FSA and HSA options.
• Long-term disability, life insurance, 401(k), wellness and mental-health stipend, and cell phone and internet subsidy.
• Commuter benefits for Bay Area employees, home-office stipends for remote employees, and continuous learning support.
• Generally not eligible for new visa sponsorship; existing visa transfers may be sponsored at business discretion and require authorization.

Hiring process

• The interview process is tailored to the role and designed to provide a thoughtful, respectful candidate experience.