Fleet Software Engineer (AI)

Location: On-site in San Jose (Santana Row), United States

Salary: $200K–$350K per year plus significant equity

Company

hirify.global builds hardware and software for frontier AI inference, co-designing chips, racks, infrastructure, and manufacturing to optimize throughput and latency.

What you will do

• Build fleet management systems that provision, configure, update, and recover hardware across labs and customer deployments.
• Implement validated, staged software and firmware rollouts with safe handling of partial failures.
• Develop telemetry, logging, monitoring, alerting, and analysis systems for rack metrics and fleet behavior.
• Build secure least-privilege access to BMCs and servers across lab, office, and data center networks.
• Provide operators with controls for draining, powering down, repairing, and updating managed hardware.
• Partner with Node Systems, Infrastructure, Customer Deployments, Lab Operations, and Factory Testing to triage incidents and improve fleet reliability.

Requirements

• Experience building and owning infrastructure software in production, including deployments, incidents, and subsequent improvements.
• Background in fleet management, provisioning, configuration management, or observability for compute infrastructure or connected devices.
• Strong distributed systems and Linux fundamentals, including behavior under load, during upgrades, and during component failures.
• Hands-on Kubernetes and container orchestration experience, including bare-metal environments.
• Experience with Slurm or similar HPC/GPU cluster schedulers, network boot, and bare-metal provisioning.
• Strong proficiency in at least one of Go, Python, Rust, or C/C++, plus strong debugging and communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with telemetry and log pipelines, bare-metal servers, accelerator clusters, HPC, robotics, or hardware fleets.
• Experience with firmware updates, hardware diagnostics, automated recovery, BMC, Redfish, or IPMI.
• Experience with customer-environment software, Docker, kernel and driver systems, PCIe, networking, or failure-injection frameworks.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully in-person work in San Jose, with collaboration across hardware, firmware, software, and research.
• 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 for moving to San Jose, wellness benefits, daily lunch and dinner, and an unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification.