Engineering Manager (AI)

Location: 100% remote, open only to candidates currently based in Canada who reside in Canada and are legally authorized to work there

Salary: CAD 188,080–207,878 per year

Company

hirify.global is building a home-equity product that helps homeowners access their wealth and achieve greater financial flexibility.

What you will do

• Define the AI technical strategy and roadmap for customer experience across voice, email, chat, and SMS agents.
• Design reliable, production-scale agent architectures covering orchestration, tool use, guardrails, fallback handling, and real-time services.
• Write code, review pull requests, prototype agent capabilities, and debug production issues.
• Partner with Product, CX, and Operations to identify and ship AI-enabled workflow improvements.
• Establish performance metrics, observability, and continuous improvement practices for the AI agent stack.
• Lead, hire, mentor, and develop a small senior engineering team while maintaining high execution standards.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems, including at least 2 years leading or managing engineering teams.
• Experience developing and shipping LLM-powered, conversational AI, or agentic systems in real-world environments.
• Hands-on experience with prompt engineering, RAG, tool usage, and orchestration frameworks.
• Strong systems design, technical strategy, architecture, vendor evaluation, and build-versus-buy decision-making skills.
• Experience delivering customer-facing products end-to-end, including deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
• Must currently reside in Canada and be legally authorized to work in Canada.

Nice to have

• Experience with telephony, messaging APIs, or chat platforms at scale.
• Experience with AI/ML evaluation, quality instrumentation, drift detection, and observability.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first work from anywhere in Canada.
• Virtual collaboration and team gatherings support genuine connection.
• People-first culture focused on ownership, innovation, and continuous learning.
• Opportunity to work on applied AI that directly interacts with customers.