Senior AI Software Engineer (RD271)

Location: Remote, United States; U.S. citizenship is required. Travel expectations are 0–5%.

Salary: $148,750–$201,250 USD annually.

Company

hirify.global delivers secure, cloud-native software delivery, security pipelines, testing, and deployment automation for defense, civil, federal, and enterprise customers.

What you will do

• Build AI-driven workflows for creating, packaging, validating, and maintaining mission applications.
• Develop agent orchestration that combines AI reasoning with deterministic tooling, validation, and human oversight.
• Create secure, isolated development environments for AI agents and software execution.
• Integrate UDS packaging, Kubernetes, containers, and software delivery tooling into automated workflows.
• Build systems for persistent application state, asynchronous execution, automated testing, and validation of secure, deployable software.
• Own feature design, implementation, testing, delivery, architecture decisions, debugging, observability, code review, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in a modern programming language; Go and TypeScript are preferred.
• Experience designing, building, and operating production software products.
• Experience integrating LLMs, AI agents, or AI-powered capabilities into software applications.
• Strong understanding of APIs, distributed systems, asynchronous workflows, and application architecture.
• Experience with Kubernetes, containers, and cloud-native application development.
• Experience building reliable, testable systems with automated validation and CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, evaluate technical tradeoffs, and independently deliver complex solutions.
• Strong communication, collaboration, problem-solving, debugging, documentation, and technical decision-making skills.

Nice to have

• Experience building AI agent orchestration systems, coding agents, or AI-powered developer tools.
• Familiarity with LLM evaluation, tool calling, MCP, and agent execution frameworks.
• Experience with secure sandboxing, isolated execution environments, or Kata Containers.
• Experience building developer platforms, CLIs, or software development automation.
• Familiarity with Zarf, Helm, Kubernetes operators, or software packaging workflows.
• Experience with software supply chain security, artifact validation, and deployment automation.
• Experience developing software for air-gapped, regulated, or restricted environments.
• Contributions to open-source projects or developer tooling.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work within the United States with a mission-focused, collaborative environment.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage with premiums fully paid by the company; health savings account, life insurance, and disability insurance.
• 401(k) retirement plan, company stock options, and a home office budget.
• Flexible Time Off, federal holidays, additional Thanksgiving and Christmas/New Year’s leave, and paid parental leave.
• Reimbursement for approved training and subscriptions, plus conference travel, lodging, and fees.