2027 AI Forward Deployed Engineer Intern

Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Company

hirify.global is a global multi-manager hedge fund investing across Quant, Tactical, Fundamental Equity, and Discretionary Macro & Fixed Income strategies through proprietary technology, infrastructure, and risk analytics.

What you will do

• Embed with portfolio manager and strategy teams during rotations, learn their processes, identify bottlenecks, and build AI agents and workflows to address them.
• Build AI-assisted research and trading tools covering data ingestion, signal research, and tools used by portfolio managers.
• Contribute desk insights to the shared AI platform through data pipelines, agent memory, architecture, model and agent intelligence, and interfaces including Slack, dashboards, and CLI.
• Measure adoption and value, improve solutions based on user feedback, and present work and design decisions to portfolio managers and the AI committee.

Requirements

• Pursuing a degree in computer science, engineering, or another quantitative field.
• Strong Python and SQL skills, with experience working with APIs, data pipelines, and production-quality code.
• Hands-on experience building with LLMs, including agents, tool use, retrieval or memory, and evaluations.
• Curiosity about financial markets and how investment teams work, with the ability and motivation to learn finance quickly.
• Ability to take an open-ended problem from a non-technical user to a working tool and critically assess the results.
• Clear communication skills for explaining technical trade-offs to portfolio managers and engineers, together with strong ownership.
• The internship lasts 10 weeks during summer 2027.

Nice to have

• A portfolio or GitHub repository containing shipped projects.
• Prior finance knowledge.

Culture & Benefits

• Dedicated manager and mentor support throughout the internship and beyond.
• Learning sessions with senior leaders and hands-on skills workshops.
• Opportunities to network through social events and learn how different functions support the firm.
• Collaborative, teamwork-oriented environment that encourages ideas, continuous learning, and innovation.
• Learning and educational offerings, internal networks, external partnerships, and service initiatives focused on inclusion and purpose.