Senior Applied AI Engineer

Location: Colorado, United States

Salary: $167,300–$245,355 USD annually base pay for Colorado and other listed U.S. markets

Company

hirify.global provides human- and agent-centric cybersecurity solutions that protect people, data, and AI workflows across email, cloud, and collaboration tools.

What you will do

• Lead applied AI research projects from question framing and baseline creation through experimentation, measurement, and actionable decisions.
• Build self-improving agent systems that run evaluation loops, recover from failures, and support long-running tasks.
• Extend evaluation platforms with task suites, regression checks, and measurements for quality, cost, and speed.
• Work with third-party model APIs and open-weight models deployed on company GPU infrastructure, including fine-tuning and efficient serving initiatives.
• Build prototypes, playgrounds, and APIs, then advise production teams on AI integration, monitoring, and system understanding.
• Mentor engineers and collaborate with stakeholders to turn real operational problems into valuable research.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building software and ML systems; 7+ years preferred.
• Recent hands-on experience taking LLM systems beyond the prototype stage.
• Daily experience with Claude Code, Cursor, or similar coding agents while maintaining high standards for correctness and testing.
• Strong Python skills and solid machine learning fundamentals.
• Experience with third-party model APIs, open-weight models, production agents, and evaluation systems.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes inference platforms, Flyte, LiteLLM, Langfuse, and internal evaluation and tracing tools.

Nice to have

• Experience fine-tuning or serving open-weight models.
• Experience with automated prompt and pipeline optimization, multi-GPU serving, MCP, or tool protocols.
• Cybersecurity experience in areas such as phishing or threat detection.
• Open-source contributions or research publications.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible work environment and global collaboration opportunities.
• Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits.
• Flexible time off, a well-being program, two paid Wellbeing Days, and two paid Volunteer Days per year.
• Three-week Work from Anywhere option and annual wellness and community outreach days.
• Career development and recognition programs.

Hiring process

• Submit an application with supporting information.
• Accommodation is available during the application or interview process upon request.