Senior Applied AI Engineer (AI)

Location: Remote - Virginia; U.S. citizenship required

Salary: $149,748.00–$205,305.00 per year

Company

hirify.global is a technology integrator and solution provider helping federal agencies solve complex operational and technology challenges.

What you will do

• Lead discovery with business and technical stakeholders, define workflows and measurable success criteria, and determine whether AI is the appropriate solution.
• Select and design AI patterns including extraction, classification, summarization, retrieval, and agentic workflows.
• Build complete production capabilities across prompts, retrieval, structured outputs, tools, APIs, data handling, error states, and user interfaces.
• Create evaluation sets from real data, measure quality, and make evidence-based deployment decisions.
• Operationalize client solutions with governance, logging, traceability, documentation, monitoring, and ongoing optimization.
• Mentor engineers, contribute reusable patterns, shape client roadmaps, and move between delivery, product development, proofs of concept, and enablement.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience building and shipping production software.
• At least 2 years of hands-on experience building applications integrating large language models, including prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, structured extraction, tool use, and agent patterns.
• Strong programming ability in Python, TypeScript, SQL, or another general-purpose language, with API integration and experience handling imperfect data.
• Experience evaluating AI system quality through test sets, metrics, and evidence-based deployment decisions.
• Ability to lead requirements conversations with non-technical stakeholders and explain tradeoffs involving accuracy, cost, latency, complexity, security, and authorization.
• U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain required federal background investigations, suitability determinations, or security clearances.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in data science, business analytics, mathematics, computer science, or a related field.
• Experience with Appian, OutSystems, Mendix, Microsoft Power Platform, ServiceNow, Salesforce, or another low-code application platform.
• Public-sector or regulated-industry delivery experience, including compliance and authorization processes.
• Experience with AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, LLM evaluation, or observability tooling.
• Consulting, solutions engineering, professional services, or embedded client experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time role with a flexible work schedule.
• Medical, dental, and vision plans.
• Flexible Spending Account and a 4% 401(k) match with immediate vesting.
• Paid time off, tuition reimbursement, certification programs, and professional development.
• On-site gym and childcare option.