Systems Engineer Architect (AI)

Location: Westminster, Colorado, United States; other location: Herndon, Virginia. Must be a U.S. Person, defined as a U.S. citizen, permanent resident, Asylee, or Refugee. Certain work may be subject to U.S. export control and ITAR requirements.

Salary: $122,000–$162,000–$178,200 annually for Colorado; $134,000–$178,000–$195,800 annually for the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Other states use market-driven geographic ranges.

Company

hirify.global develops spatial intelligence solutions that help decision makers and operators understand current conditions and plan for future outcomes.

What you will do

• Lead the technical design and delivery of complex, cross-domain software systems.
• Define system architecture, integration strategies, technical direction, system boundaries, interfaces, dependencies, and validation approaches across multiple engineering teams.
• Translate ambiguous customer, mission, and business problems into scalable technical solutions and make architecture tradeoff decisions.
• Partner with Product, engineering, architecture, operations, customers, and leadership to align delivered capabilities with customer and mission outcomes.
• Identify and mitigate architectural, integration, operational, and delivery risks from concept through integration, validation, operational readiness, and adoption.
• Improve architecture practices, technical standards, engineering quality, and leadership capability through mentoring and influence.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience solving complex software systems problems.
• Significant experience architecting and delivering large-scale, software-intensive systems.
• Demonstrated success leading major cross-functional or cross-domain technical initiatives.
• Deep understanding of modern software architecture and distributed systems.
• Experience leading architecture reviews, technical trade studies, and consequential design decisions.
• Experience defining system boundaries, interfaces, integration strategies, and validation approaches.
• Strong understanding of software development, integration, deployment, and operational readiness.
• Ability to communicate effectively with software engineers, architects, product leaders, customers, senior leaders, and executives.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence and create alignment across multiple teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with cloud-native platforms and Kubernetes.
• Experience with distributed data systems and event-driven architectures.
• Experience with AI-assisted software development and agentic engineering workflows.
• Experience with high-availability, mission-critical, or operational software platforms.
• Experience in geospatial, aerospace, defense, robotics, autonomous systems, or other complex mission domains.
• Experience with systems-of-systems integration, developer platforms, platform engineering, or internal engineering infrastructure.
• Experience with sovereign, on-premises, disconnected, or hybrid deployment environments.
• Experience with model-based or digitally enabled systems engineering practices.

Culture & Benefits

• Mission-focused work in spatial intelligence and complex operational environments.
• Full-time employment with a competitive total rewards package.
• 401(k) with company match, mental health resources, student loan repayment assistance, adoption reimbursement, and pet insurance.
• Incentive eligibility based on contribution, company performance, and/or individual results.
• Inclusive workplace with equal employment opportunity.

Hiring process

• Submit an application through hirify.global’s careers page.
• The application window is three days from posting or reposting and remains open until a qualified candidate is identified.