Agentic Engineering Lead (AI)

Location: Westminster, Colorado, United States. U.S. Person status is required, defined as a U.S. citizen, permanent resident, Asylee, or Refugee. Certain work may be subject to U.S. export control and ITAR requirements.

Salary: $135,000–$180,000–$198,000 annually for Colorado; final compensation depends on experience, qualifications, skills, location, and market conditions. The role is also incentive eligible.

Company

hirify.global develops spatial intelligence solutions that help decision makers and operators understand current events and plan for future conditions.

What you will do

• Architect and build agentic workflows across the software development lifecycle and Engineering Operations.
• Translate engineering standards, playbooks, governance, and systems of record into automated workflows, controls, and agents.
• Implement engineering data architecture, integrations, context, and traceability for trusted agentic workflows.
• Define scalable patterns for agent architecture, human-agent handoffs, guardrails, evaluation, and observability.
• Advise engineering teams on adapting and adopting the Agentic Software Development Lifecycle for their products, architectures, risks, and mission requirements.
• Develop reusable agentic capabilities, measure adoption and effectiveness, and continuously improve them.

Requirements

• Experience consistent with a T7/Principal technical leader: typically 15+ years with a bachelor's degree, 10+ years with a master's degree, 8+ years with a PhD, or equivalent experience.
• Deep software engineering and architecture expertise, including modern SDLC, automation, APIs, developer tooling, and systems integration.
• Hands-on experience designing and building AI agents, agentic systems, or AI-enabled engineering workflows.
• Strong understanding of LLMs, context engineering, orchestration, evaluation, observability, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop patterns.
• Ability to establish technical direction and influence senior engineers, architects, and engineering leaders across an organization.
• Must meet the U.S. Person eligibility requirement.

Nice to have

• Experience deploying production-grade agentic or autonomous engineering systems.
• Experience integrating AI with GitHub, Jira, CI/CD, documentation, and observability platforms.
• Experience driving adoption of new engineering practices across diverse teams.
• Experience in aerospace, defense, mission-critical, or other high-assurance engineering environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Work focused on spatial intelligence and mission-critical engineering capabilities.
• Competitive total rewards package with a 401(k) company match.
• Mental health resources, student loan repayment assistance, adoption reimbursement, and pet insurance.
• Inclusive workplace with equal employment opportunity protections.

Hiring process

• Submit an application through hirify.global's careers page.
• The posting remains open until a qualified candidate is identified; the initial application window is three days from posting.