Forward Deployed Engineer (AI)

Location: Palo Alto, CA, USA; in-office

Salary: $150,000–$195,000 per year

Company

hirify.global builds infrastructure for using modern AI models in production at scale, with a focus on reliable AI inference.

What you will do

• Own enterprise technical wins and proof-of-concept timelines in partnership with Sales and Engineering.
• Design reproducible benchmark harnesses covering TTFT, ITL, throughput per GPU, p95/p99 latency, and quality parity.
• Run head-to-head evaluations against leading AI providers and tune model-to-hardware deployments on B200, B300, and GB300 NVL72 systems.
• Build cost-per-token models, write migration plans, and support enterprise security and compliance reviews.
• Drive deployment launch readiness, post-signature account health, usage reviews, and expansion.
• Create reusable benchmark reports, reference architectures, and enablement materials.

Requirements

• Customer-facing engineering experience with an owned technical outcome at an infrastructure or ML platform company.
• Strong Python skills.
• Ability to communicate credibly with staff engineers, CFOs, Sales, procurement, and engineering stakeholders.
• Commercial judgment and the ability to distinguish technical objections from procurement objections.
• Ability to work in the Palo Alto office.

Nice to have

• Experience with vLLM, SGLang, TRT-LLM, batching, KV-cache calculations, or quantization.
• Experience with agentic or coding-assistant workloads at scale.
• Experience with long-context workloads, diffusion image/video, ASR/TTS, or multi-LoRA serving.
• Open-source contributions to vLLM or SGLang.
• Deep NVLink or InfiniBand topology knowledge.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to define the Forward Deployed Engineering function from its beginning.
• Direct collaboration with co-founders and the inference engineering team.
• Small, high-performing environment focused on initiative, drive, and grit.
• Work on enterprise adoption of leading open-source AI models.
• Full-time, in-office role with a base salary of $150,000–$195,000 per year.