Head of Platform Engineering (AI)

Location: On-site at the San Francisco office, United States

Company

hirify.global provides an agentic document platform that uses vision models, LLMs, and document-processing systems to help enterprise customers extract and use information from complex documents.

What you will do

• Own the serving platform end to end, including job orchestration, document pre- and post-processing, model inference, autoscaling, throttling, and the serving-stack migration.
• Build deployment and serving capabilities for customer cloud and on-premise environments.
• Develop observability, alerting, and incident-response systems while improving reliability, latency, and cost per document.
• Own the platform roadmap and technical decisions, and recruit and build the platform engineering team.
• Work with Product Engineering to scale agent runtimes and environments, and build an internal data platform for users and ML teams.
• Partner with ML and Product Engineering to roll out new models and deployment capabilities.

Requirements

• At least three years of experience owning reliability, latency, and efficiency for a platform at significant scale, with measurable results.
• Recent hands-on experience writing design documents and production code and reviewing engineering work.
• Experience attracting, hiring, and retaining high-performing engineering talent.
• Experience with infrastructure as code and containerized deployments operated in production.
• Experience serving ML models, particularly vision-language models, at scale.
• Experience building data platforms, managing on-premise deployments, or working with agent sandboxes, harnesses, and evaluations.

Nice to have

• Experience as a founder, founding engineer, or owner of a greenfield project taken from zero to one.
• Experience building and managing on-premise deployments and agent infrastructure.

Culture & Benefits

• Early-stage environment focused on fast execution and hands-on engineering.
• Unlimited paid time off.
• Daily lunch at the office and reimbursed transportation.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Up to $150 per month for health and wellness expenses.
• Parental leave with a schedule tailored to individual family needs.