Senior Data or Software Engineer (AI)

Location: Sunnyvale, California, USA; hybrid working model with in-person collaboration and remote work

Salary: $290K–$340K

Company

hirify.global is building an AI platform for autonomous driving that learns from real-world driving experience and supports scalable deployment across vehicle manufacturers.

What you will do

• Implement and iterate filtering, retention, offload, and deletion policies across hot, cold, archive, and delete storage.
• Build data movement and ingestion pipelines supporting pre-ingestion selection models.
• Design where and how selection models run while balancing compute cost and data value.
• Build early, low-compute decision points that prevent expensive standardisation and enrichment of low-value data.
• Monitor data quality and ensure datasets provide useful behavioral and environmental coverage for model training.
• Work closely with the dataset strategy lead, data infrastructure, storage, and vehicle-related teams to ship practical solutions.

Requirements

• Senior data or software engineering experience running data ingestion or data quality pipelines at petabyte scale.
• Strong Python and Spark skills.
• Cloud data engineering experience.
• Good judgement in data filtering and quality, including checking that valuable data has not been discarded.
• Ability to ship practical solutions quickly and iterate on live systems.
• Software engineering experience building systems around models rather than models themselves.
• Ability and interest to work closely with data infrastructure and storage teams.

Nice to have

• Experience in AV, robotics, fleet data, high-volume IoT, or retention, offload, and data lifecycle policies.
• Passion for autonomy and willingness to learn even without meeting every qualification.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working with core hours, dedicated offices, and opportunities to work hands-on in vehicle workshops and labs.
• Meaningful equity and salaries benchmarked against the market annually.
• Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable.
• Learning and development budgets for training, conferences, and growth.
• Health insurance, dental coverage, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, retirement or pension provisions where applicable, therapist access, and wellbeing partner discounts.
• Ownership in an evolving environment where working practices are still being developed.

Hiring process

• Initial recruiter screen: 30 minutes.
• Hiring manager introduction: 1 hour; competency interviews covering system design and technical leadership: 2 hours; domain deep dive: 1 hour.
• Final mission and values alignment interview: 1 hour.