Director, Production and Infrastructure Engineering (AI)

Location: Seattle, WA (preferred) or remote within the USA. Some travel is required. Certain national security assignments may require U.S. citizenship and eligibility to obtain and maintain a security clearance.

Salary: $240,000–$290,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global develops end-to-end AI solutions for deploying, managing, and optimizing enterprise AI, including agentic applications for healthcare, oil and gas, and national security.

What you will do

• Build and develop the Production and Infrastructure Engineering organization through hiring, onboarding, coaching, career development, and performance management.
• Lead DevOps, SRE, DevEx, MLOps, testing, application delivery, and dedicated support functions across different technical disciplines.
• Own sprint planning, backlog grooming, capacity planning, delivery reviews, dependencies, scope, incidents, and customer support priorities.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership through design and code reviews, technical investigations, pairing, and guidance on infrastructure, software, and operational decisions.
• Lead production and release readiness, including reliability, change management, QA, E2E validation, operational documentation, rollback plans, and accountable ownership.
• Improve cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, observability, on-call readiness, incident response, metrics, and cross-functional delivery with Product, Platform, Applied AI, and Security/GRC.

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant engineering experience, including 5+ years of direct engineering people management, or equivalent demonstrated experience. Demonstrated experience building teams, coaching platform or infrastructure engineers, managing performance, delivering through technical leads, and leading multiple engineering functions at director level.
• Experience leading teams with different technical specialties and seniority levels, with strong planning, prioritization, delegation, stakeholder communication, technical disagreement resolution, and alignment to shared outcomes.
• Strong technical foundation in at least one major cloud platform such as GCP, AWS, or Azure, with practical experience in Kubernetes, containers, networking, identity, and production operations.
• Practical experience with Terraform, Git-based development workflows, GitOps, CI/CD, repeatable environments, configuration control, and reliable deployments.
• Strong background building and shipping production software, with working depth across backend services, APIs, data stores, and full-stack integration; able to review code and designs, reason about application failures, and pair with engineers.
• Experience leading production delivery and support, including reliability, incident response, release and change management, automated testing, and E2E readiness.
• Ability to structure ambiguous work, learn unfamiliar technical domains, make timely decisions with incomplete information, and shift between people leadership, delivery issues, and technical discussions.
• Experience managing technical commitments and escalations with internal or external customers and translating customer needs into feasible priorities and delivery plans.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with MLOps, model serving, or operating AI/ML and agent workloads.
• Experience supporting customer-managed environments, multiple cloud providers, or complex enterprise deployments.
• Experience in national security, federal, regulated, or other security-sensitive environments and partnering with Security/GRC.
• Experience scaling an engineering organization or building a new team or operating function in a fast-changing company.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with a career track and potential for rapid advancement.
• Employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families.
• Fourteen weeks of paid maternity and paternity leave at normal pay.
• Unlimited PTO with management approval.
• Professional development and continued learning opportunities.
• Optional 401(k), FSA, equity incentives, and mental health benefits.