AI Platform Engineer, Staff

Location: McLean, Virginia, United States

Annual base salary: $172,500–$255,875

Company

hirify.global develops hirify.global Experience Cloud, a SaaS platform for managing customer, employee, patient, resident, and candidate experiences.

What you will do

• Set the technical direction, architecture, and engineering standards for the AI/ML platform.
• Architect in-house and cloud-native ML infrastructure, secure data pipelines, scalable data processing, and APIs.
• Define production standards for model and pipeline monitoring, maintenance, optimization, security, compliance, and reliability.
• Partner with product, design, and engineering leadership to shape Customer Experience features.
• Mentor senior engineers, lead design reviews, and drive technical decisions across multiple teams.
• Participate in scheduled on-call rotations and respond to high-severity incidents affecting internal and customer-facing systems.

Requirements

• BA/BS in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of production software development experience with Python, Java, or Scala, including technical leadership beyond a single team.
• Deep experience designing and operating microservices and distributed systems at scale, including Spark, Hadoop, and Kafka.
• Experience deploying and operating services on Kubernetes, including setting standards for regulated environments.
• Strong experience with relational SQL and Postgres.
• Demonstrated ability to drive cross-team technical decisions and mentor senior engineers.

Nice to have

• Experience with AWS services including EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, EKS, and SageMaker.
• AWS Certified Machine Learning Specialty or Solutions Architect certification.
• Experience with ML model-serving platforms such as TensorFlow Serving, TensorRT, Triton, or KServe.
• Experience with Airflow, Kubeflow, Django, Spring, NoSQL databases, or Elasticsearch.
• Experience defining platform strategies, technical roadmaps, or engineering standards.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k), disability, life, and AD&D insurance.
• Statutory leaves, paid parental leave, and paid holidays.
• Equal opportunity workplace focused on diversity and inclusion.