Sr. ML Engineer (AI)

Location: US - Austin, TX; at least 3 days per week in the office. Travel required 5–10% of the time.

Salary: $123,400–$191,100 USD per year, with potential bonus and equity eligibility.

Company

hirify.global operates a global payments technology network connecting consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities.

What you will do

• Build and maintain scalable ML platform infrastructure, pipelines, orchestration frameworks, and model-serving environments.
• Develop tooling that helps Data Scientists and AI Engineers move models from research into production.
• Operate secure cloud and on-premise infrastructure using AWS, Kubernetes, SageMaker, Terraform, and related technologies.
• Support GPU-enabled infrastructure and serving frameworks for AI/ML, generative AI, and LLM workloads.
• Modernize legacy ML pipelines and improve platform reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Define platform architecture, implementation standards, and best practices while collaborating with engineering, infrastructure, security, and data teams.

Requirements

• At least 3 days per week in the Austin office is required.
• At least 2 years of relevant experience with a bachelor's degree, or 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience designing and operating scalable ML platform infrastructure for AI/ML applications.
• Experience with AWS services, Kubernetes, Docker, ML pipelines, orchestration tools, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience with Python or shell scripting, CI/CD, secure cloud architecture, and production model deployment.
• Experience with GPU orchestration, ML serving frameworks, hybrid or on-premise infrastructure, and distributed ML workloads.

Nice to have

• Experience with generative AI, large language models, LLMOps, or GenAI infrastructure.
• Experience with vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, KServe, Triton, Spark, Kubeflow, Airflow, or MLflow.
• Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot or ChatGPT.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers and leading key platform modules.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in an enterprise and regulated environment on payment technology used across more than 200 countries and territories.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k), FSA/HSA, life insurance, paid time off, and wellness program.
• Work hours vary according to department needs.