Staff Forward Deployed Engineer (AI)

Location: Seattle, WA; occasional travel of less than 10% for customer discovery, deployment, and relationship building.

Salary: $155,000–$225,000 annually, plus potential performance-based bonuses and equity awards.

Company

hirify.global is building an AI-native system of work for enterprise marketing, using agents to execute campaigns across existing tools, teams, and workflows.

What you will do

• Lead technical discovery and implementations for enterprise customers, translating complex business processes into AI-native solutions.
• Build, deploy, and optimize features integrating customer systems with hirify.global’s LLM-driven platform.
• Develop reusable tools, adapters, and configuration layers for scalable enterprise onboarding.
• Collaborate with marketing, operations, engineering, product, and customer stakeholders to define requirements, identify edge cases, and iterate on solutions.
• Feed customer learnings into the product roadmap and maintain implementation documentation and playbooks.
• Own performance, reliability, maintainability, backend architecture, and customer UX for shipped solutions.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering or technical implementation experience, ideally in customer-facing contexts.
• Programming experience with TypeScript or similar languages, plus strong knowledge of APIs and systems integration.
• Ability to understand unfamiliar enterprise architectures, including CMS, DAM, and workflow tools, and build integration paths.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate between technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• High ownership, independent execution, and comfort navigating ambiguity.
• Demonstrated enterprise customer experience, particularly in content, marketing, or digital operations.
• Experience with LLMs, generative AI pipelines, and agent-style automation frameworks.
• Willingness to travel occasionally, less than 10%.

Culture & Benefits

• Performance-based annual bonus and meaningful equity awards.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, with coverage fully paid for employees and 75% for dependents.
• Fertility and family-planning support, 401(k), unlimited PTO, and paid sick leave.
• Flexible work hours, wellness programs, and a Seattle office with a gym, sauna, bike parking, and free lunch three days per week.
• Fast-paced, low-bureaucracy environment emphasizing ownership, customer focus, AI literacy, learning, and impact.

Hiring process

• Demonstrate individual thinking, communication, and problem-solving during interviews; over-reliance on AI-generated interview responses may result in disqualification.