Staff AI Engineer

Location: Remote within the United States; listed locations are San Jose, CA, San Diego, CA, and Seattle, WA.

Salary: $169,400.00–$254,100.00 annually.

Company

hirify.global develops the Autonomous Knowledge Platform, connecting data, knowledge, and business context for enterprise intelligence across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.

What you will do

• Design and evolve large-scale distributed AI systems powering enterprise AI platforms and AI-native products.
• Own architecture for agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, vector search, semantic retrieval, and AI orchestration frameworks.
• Build scalable, secure, reusable platform services and APIs using LLMs, embeddings, vector databases, and agent-based architectures.
• Define guardrails for reliability, safety, governance, and cost control in enterprise AI systems.
• Partner with product management, architecture, research, and cloud platform teams on scalable AI solutions and roadmap decisions.
• Drive testing, observability, evaluation, performance optimization, production readiness, engineering standards, and mentorship across teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience building backend services, distributed systems, or data/AI platforms.
• Strong proficiency in Java, Go, or Python, with experience building large-scale services.
• Deep understanding of distributed system design, scalability, fault tolerance, and cloud-native architectures.
• Proven experience designing and operating production systems with SQL and NoSQL data stores.
• Experience with LLMs, embeddings, vector databases, and AI orchestration frameworks.
• Exposure to agentic AI patterns including tool calling, planning, memory, and multi-step reasoning.
• Experience building or operating AI systems in AWS, Azure, or GCP environments.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and production-grade observability.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible work model supporting decisions about when, where, and how to work.
• People-first, inclusive culture focused on employee well-being.
• Benefits generally include healthcare, life and disability insurance, retirement savings including a 401(k), and time off.
• Eligibility for an annual incentive plan based on company financial performance and individual performance.