Forward Deployed Engineer (AI)

Location: Based in San Francisco, California; remote work may be considered within the US for exceptional candidates.

Salary: $200,000–$400,000 annual salary plus equity.

Company

hirify.global develops vLLM-based AI inference infrastructure to make model inference faster and more cost-efficient.

What you will do

• Deploy, integrate, debug, and optimize vLLM-powered inference systems in customer environments.
• Implement solutions across cloud platforms, Kubernetes, GPUs, networking, and model-serving systems.
• Own complex production issues from architecture discussions through implementation and resolution.
• Work with customer engineering teams and core product and engineering teams.
• Convert recurring customer problems into reusable product capabilities, tooling, and platform improvements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in computer science, engineering, systems, machine learning, or a related field.
• Strong software engineering skills in Python, Go, TypeScript, or similar languages.
• Production experience deploying or operating ML systems, model serving, AI infrastructure, cloud platforms, Kubernetes, or high-scale backend systems.
• Strong debugging skills across applications, runtimes, infrastructure, networking, identity, storage, observability, and distributed systems.
• Ability to reason about latency, throughput, batching, compatibility, scaling, reliability, and cost in production inference environments.
• Ability to work directly with customer engineering teams and drive ambiguous technical implementations to resolution.

Nice to have

• Experience with vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM, TGI, Ray Serve, BentoML, or similar inference systems.
• Experience with NVIDIA or AMD GPUs, CUDA, ROCm, GPU scheduling, or multi-GPU serving.
• Experience with enterprise, regulated, security-sensitive, or bring-your-own-cloud deployments.
• Experience building APIs, SDKs, CLIs, deployment platforms, control planes, or infrastructure products.
• Open-source contributions or experience in forward-deployed, customer engineering, field engineering, or technical solutions roles.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on engineering role focused on implementation rather than traditional pre-sales.
• Direct influence on customer time-to-value and product evolution.
• Health, dental, and vision benefits.
• 401(k) company match.
• Visa sponsorship available on a case-by-case basis.