Internal Acceleration Engineer (AI)

Location: On-site in San Jose, United States. The team works fully in person at the Santana Row office. Relocation support is available for candidates moving to San Jose.

Salary: $150K–$400K+ annually, plus significant equity.

Company

hirify.global builds hardware, software, racks, and manufacturing systems for frontier AI inference, with a focus on transformer-based architectures and high throughput and low latency.

What you will do

• Embed with kernels, ASIC, hardware, and production teams to identify high-leverage bottlenecks.
• Build and deploy LLM agents integrated into engineering workflows through tool-calling and MCP.
• Ship full-stack internal products, including interfaces, data pipelines, and infrastructure.
• Design evaluations, measure adoption, and determine which tools create meaningful impact.
• Own special projects with the founders and help deliver critical company milestones.

Requirements

• 1–5+ years of experience building and shipping software end to end.
• Strong full-stack engineering skills and the ability to own problems from first idea to production.
• Experience building LLM agents or AI tooling that real users depend on, including context engineering, tool integration, evaluations, and failure analysis.
• Strong product sense, design taste, attention to detail, and extreme agency.
• Ability to work fully in person in San Jose and operate effectively in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment.

Nice to have

• Exposure to chip development, kernels, hardware, or manufacturing.
• Infrastructure, data engineering, or DevOps experience.
• Experience with fine-tuning, RAG over proprietary technical data, or multi-agent orchestration.
• Startup experience, especially in a hypergrowth environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully in-person work with close collaboration across engineering, research, hardware, and manufacturing.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage with generous premium support.
• $500 monthly credit for waiving medical benefits.
• $2,500 monthly housing subsidy for employees living within walking distance of the office.
• Relocation support, wellness benefits, daily lunch and dinner, and an unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification.