Forward Deployed AI Engineer II

Location: New York, NY, United States; onsite

Total compensation: $180,000–$220,000, including base salary, annual bonus incentive, and new-hire equity.

Company

hirify.global builds secure identity solutions that enable safer and easier physical and digital experiences across airports, stadiums, travel, and everyday life.

What you will do

• Discover, prioritize, and build AI use cases for internal tools, employee workflows, and customer-facing product features.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Data, Security, Legal, Compliance, Operations, and business teams to translate needs into AI-driven solutions.
• Prototype AI agents, LLM applications, RAG workflows, automation tools, and product experiences.
• Productionize validated AI systems with evaluation, monitoring, logging, fallback paths, and operational ownership.
• Build reusable patterns for prompt management, retrieval, tool use, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
• Measure AI impact across adoption, quality, cost reduction, productivity, customer experience, and business outcomes.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in software engineering, AI engineering, machine learning engineering, data engineering, or a related technical role.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs, AI agents, RAG, model APIs, prompt engineering, or AI application frameworks.
• Strong programming skills in Python or another modern backend language.
• Experience building and deploying production systems with APIs, data platforms, cloud infrastructure, logging, monitoring, and testing.
• Understanding of responsible AI, including evaluation, guardrails, privacy, security, human oversight, and model governance.
• Ability to work with ambiguous business workflows, exercise product judgment, and communicate with technical, non-technical, and executive stakeholders.

Culture & Benefits

• Onsite work in an open, energetic office with conference rooms, coworking spaces, catered lunches, and stocked kitchens.
• Learning and development stipends and reimbursement programs.
• Comprehensive healthcare plans and family-building benefits, including fertility, adoption, and surrogacy support.
• Flexible time off, an annual wellness stipend, and OneMedical memberships for employees and dependents.
• hirify.global Plus membership and a 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.