Senior Software Engineer (AI)

Location: Hybrid role based in Reston, Virginia, United States, with offices in Reston and Austin

Salary: $160,000–$230,000 USD annually

Company

hirify.global develops explainable and trustworthy AI solutions for enterprises, government, and regulated industries, including secure and auditable deployments across cloud, on-premises, and edge environments.

What you will do

• Work with AI engineers and Product to deliver production-ready features for federal solutions.
• Own the transition from functional prototypes to stable, scalable, and accredited services.
• Design secure systems and establish engineering best practices across the federal engineering team.
• Build hardened container images, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment artifacts for cloud and restricted or air-gapped environments.
• Debug production issues and perform root cause analysis in environments with limited observability and access.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, design reviews, and pairing.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of professional software engineering experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Hands-on experience with Python, PostgreSQL or a comparable RDBMS, RESTful API design, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, CI/CD, automated testing, and observability.
• Strong understanding of distributed-systems fundamentals, including idempotency, retries, eventual consistency, queueing, failure isolation, and graceful degradation.
• Experience owning, designing, debugging, or operating production systems and communicating with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Applicants must be U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, protected individuals, or eligible to obtain required U.S. government authorizations.

Nice to have

• FastAPI and GitLab CI experience.
• Experience shipping AI-backed features such as LLM inference, agents, or retrieval.
• Experience using AI coding assistants while retaining responsibility for code review, testing, and production quality.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible hybrid work environment.
• Health, dental, vision, and life insurance from the first day.
• Unlimited PTO, 14 paid company holidays, and paid parental leave.
• Retirement plan with company matching and equity ownership through RSUs.
• Mission-focused work on secure AI for government, critical infrastructure, and regulated industries.