Internal Acceleration Software Engineer (AI)

Location: On-site in San Jose, United States. Relocation support is available for candidates moving to San Jose.

Salary: $150,000–$400,000+ per year, plus significant equity.

Company

hirify.global builds inference-focused hardware and software infrastructure for frontier AI, co-designing chips, racks, software, and manufacturing systems.

What you will do

• Embed with kernels, ASIC, hardware, and production teams to identify bottlenecks and build engineering tools.
• Build and deploy LLM agents integrated into engineering workflows through tool calling and MCP.
• Create execution environments with sandboxed access to simulators, EDA flows, compilers, profilers, and real hardware.
• Ship full-stack internal products, including interfaces, data pipelines, and infrastructure, from zero to one.
• Design evaluations, measure adoption, and improve or discontinue tools based on results.
• Work directly with the founders on special projects and critical company milestones.

Requirements

• 1–5+ years of experience building and shipping software end to end.
• Experience building agents for complex, multi-step tasks, including tool design, long-context management, evaluations, and failure analysis.
• Strong software engineering background with experience building reliable distributed systems, experimentation infrastructure, or developer tooling.
• Ability to use coding agents extensively, investigate their transcripts, and correct confidently wrong behavior.
• High agency in unfamiliar domains, strong product sense, design taste, and exceptional attention to detail.
• Ability to work fully in person in San Jose.

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, particularly in a hypergrowth environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully in-person work in San Jose with close collaboration across engineering, research, and hardware disciplines.
• 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.
• Wellness benefits, daily lunch and dinner, and an unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification.