Software Engineer - Customer Facing Applied AI

Location: Remote, United States. The role includes up to 15% travel to client sites and occasional work outside standard business hours to support client time zones. Applicants must already be authorized to work in the United States for any employer and must not require current or future visa sponsorship.

Base salary: $163,000–$203,500 USD per year, excluding bonus, equity, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global is a global data and AI platform that helps investment professionals manage complex financial, portfolio, market, and client data.

What you will do

• Build AI-powered agents and tools from client discovery and rapid prototyping through evaluation and production.
• Design LLM integrations using prompt engineering, function calling, structured outputs, and retrieval-augmented workflows.
• Define evaluation criteria and build test harnesses for AI systems with ambiguous, domain-specific correctness requirements.
• Work directly with clients and domain experts to validate AI behavior and iterate toward production quality.
• Partner with core engineering teams to turn client-specific solutions into reusable product features and shared AI infrastructure.
• Monitor and maintain production AI systems with attention to reliability, cost, and performance.

Requirements

• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Professional experience with Python and LLM APIs such as Claude or GPT, including function calling and structured outputs.
• Comfort with SQL for data exploration and data-grounded AI workflows.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or similar.
• Experience taking a project from zero to one, from prototype through production, with a strong focus on client outcomes.
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Mathematics, another quantitative field, or equivalent experience.

Nice to have

• Experience building agentic systems, including multi-step tool use, agent orchestration, or durable workflows.
• Experience with additional backend languages, especially Java.
• Familiarity with financial data such as portfolios, transactions, securities, or accounting.
• Exposure to AWS, container-based deployments, and AI evaluation frameworks.

Culture & Benefits

• Compensation includes base salary, bonus, equity, and benefits.
• Values include ownership, collaboration, client focus, innovation, and continuous learning.
• hirify.global supports an inclusive workplace and provides reasonable accommodations during hiring and employment.
• The role offers close client collaboration and the opportunity to shape a new Applied AI team and its products.

Hiring process

• The formal process includes interviews before any offer is made.
• Recruiting can provide the salary range for the candidate's preferred United States location during the process.