Senior AI Software Engineer (Navigation)

Location: Must be based in the United States

Salary: $160,650 – $217,350 per year (plus 5-10% for high cost-of-labor locations)

Company

hirify.global is a leading real-time location platform providing tools for developers to build customized navigation and location-aware experiences for people, packages, and vehicles.

What you will do

• Own the technical design and delivery of multi-component AI systems across search, places, and navigation intelligence.
• Build measurement frameworks and evaluation systems for non-deterministic AI behavior.
• Develop data pipelines for ingestion, conflation, and entity resolution to keep large datasets current.
• Design feedback loops and instrument systems to improve model performance based on real-world usage.
• Optimize systems for latency and cost, including caching, model routing, and prompt structure.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure 24/7 system availability.

Requirements

• Must be based in the United States and have valid work authorization (E-Verify participation).
• Bachelors Degree in a STEM discipline.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience with production ownership of services or pipelines.
• 2+ years of experience shipping LLM-backed features to real users in production environments.
• Strong proficiency in Python or TypeScript.
• Deep experience with SQL and distributed processing frameworks.
• Experience with tool calling, agent orchestration, and diagnosing latency in distributed systems.

Nice to have

• Geospatial data experience (routing, geocoding, OpenStreetMap).
• Experience with MCP or similar tool transports.
• Automotive, in-vehicle infotainment, or voice pipeline experience.
• Experience running evaluations in CI/CD pipelines.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible work environment with options for remote or periodic office attendance.
• Comprehensive private medical coverage for employees and dependents.
• Generous parental leave and inclusive fertility support.
• Retirement plans with competitive matching.
• Lifestyle spending accounts and mental health support.
• Dedicated paid volunteering time.