Software Engineer (AI Agents)

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

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

Company

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

What you will do

• Embed with the production team to identify high-leverage engineering bottlenecks and own solutions from concept to daily use.
• 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 effectiveness, track adoption, and improve or retire internal tools based on results.
• Work directly with 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, experiment infrastructure, or developer tooling.
• Experience using coding agents, reviewing their transcripts, and improving systems when agents produce incorrect results.
• High agency in unfamiliar domains, strong product sense, design taste, and attention to detail.
• Willingness to work fully in person in San Jose and take on a role that is not limited to a traditional 9-to-5 schedule.

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

• Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage.
• $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 at the office, and an unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification.
• Fully in-person collaboration across engineering, research, and other disciplines.