Forward Deployed Engineer (AI)

Location: Needham, MA, United States

Salary: $180,000–$300,000 USD annual

Company

hirify.global is a global product design and technology company developing consumer lifestyle products under the Shark and Ninja brands.

What you will do

• Embed with business teams to understand workflows, decisions, recurring friction, and commercially valuable opportunities.
• Build zero-to-one applications, data products, and automation by iterating directly with users.
• Integrate enterprise data and apply AI with appropriate validation and human review.
• Test, deploy, monitor, and maintain production solutions with security, data quality, and auditability built in.
• Drive adoption, establish support ownership, and measure business results.

Requirements

• Experience building and deploying production software, data products, or automation used by business teams.
• Experience in CPG, consumer products, retail, manufacturing, or another environment requiring understanding of end-to-end business operations.
• Experience with Python or a similar data analysis language.
• Strong SQL skills, including database architecture, table creation, procedures, and functions.
• Commercial acumen to connect technical choices to business value and understand how changes affect teams across the business.
• Sound engineering practices covering testing, security, monitoring, documentation, and validation of AI outputs.
• A founder’s mindset, including initiative, navigating uncertainty, moving quickly, and accountability through adoption and results.

Nice to have

• Palantir Foundry and AIP, or comparable enterprise data and application platforms.
• Embedded engineering, business transformation, or product development experience in a startup or high-growth environment.
• Experience building intuitive interfaces that simplify complex data and workflows.
• Snowflake and dbt experience.
• Experience with production business applications in React.

Culture & Benefits

• AI-native culture encouraging experimentation, new tools, and continuous improvement.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, flexible spending accounts, HSA with company contribution, and 401(k) matching.
• Paid time off, company holidays, parental leave, short- and long-term disability insurance, and life insurance.
• Employee stock purchase program, wellness programs, product discounts, referral bonuses, and learning programs.
• Support for diversity, equity, inclusion, personal growth, and career acceleration.