Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (AI)

Location: New York City, United States; preferably based in New York City. Travel up to 30%. Applicant must be a U.S. citizen or national or U.S. lawful, permanent resident.

Annual base pay: $180,000–$230,000, plus equity.

Company

hirify.global builds an AI orchestration engine and Lemma platform for enterprises and public sector agencies.

What you will do

• Work with users and customer engineers to define problems, map system dependencies, and agree on initial deployments.
• Write production code connecting APIs, data sources, and customer applications to Lemma, then build and test AI workflows.
• Evaluate AI behavior using realistic examples, define output-quality and reliability checks, and determine where human review is required.
• Deploy and operate solutions with engineering teams, diagnosing failures across application code, data, authentication, and network boundaries.
• Document technical decisions and operating procedures so customers and teammates can maintain delivered systems.
• Turn recurring customer needs into reusable integrations and product improvements, and help Growth assess technical feasibility and scope evaluations.

Requirements

• Five or more years of software engineering experience, or comparable evidence of independently delivering and operating production systems.
• Strong programming skills in Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, or a similar language, with the ability to explain design choices, review code, and debug unfamiliar systems.
• Experience building APIs or integrations, working with databases and data pipelines, and using automated tests and deployment practices.
• Hands-on experience with AI or ML applications, including evaluating outputs and understanding failure modes.
• Experience working directly with users or customer engineers to resolve incomplete requirements and make practical tradeoffs.
• Clear communication about progress and technical risks, with the judgment to seek engineering review when needed.
• Formal technical education or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Experience delivering software for federal customers or organizations with demanding security and operational requirements.
• Experience building AI workflows involving external tools, retrieval, evaluation, or human review.
• Experience with enterprise identity, cloud infrastructure, containers, or complex system integrations.
• Experience improving a shared product based on customer deployment learnings.
• Background in product engineering, forward-deployed engineering, or implementation engineering with substantial production coding.
• An active U.S. Secret security clearance or higher.

Culture & Benefits

• Work directly with federal customers and see how delivered systems are used.
• Collaborate with the founding team, Lemma engineers, product and engineering teams, and an Applied AI Strategist.
• Contribute customer-informed capabilities to the shared product.
• Full-time employment with equity and an annual base salary range of $180,000–$230,000.
• Equal-opportunity workplace committed to inclusion across backgrounds and identities.