Software Engineer (Agentic AI)

Location: Hybrid; regular in-office presence required in Mountain View, CA, United States.

Base salary: $170,000–$185,000 per year, plus benefits and equity options.

Company

hirify.global develops standards-based satellite connectivity that connects smartphones and IoT devices directly to satellites through a cloud-native commercial NTN vRAN platform.

What you will do

• Explore applications of agentic AI across telecommunications, identity, service discovery, and network services.
• Translate ambiguous business opportunities into technical experiments, prototypes, proof-of-concepts, APIs, services, and demonstrations.
• Design and build agentic AI systems using LLM orchestration, tool integrations, and emerging agent communication protocols.
• Apply identity and security concepts, including authentication, authorization, OAuth, SSO, and zero-trust architectures, to agent ecosystems.
• Evaluate technical trade-offs across AI agents, identity infrastructure, cloud services, and network systems.
• Collaborate with product and engineering leaders to assess feasibility, commercial relevance, and product opportunities while establishing architectural foundations for promising prototypes.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on software engineering experience with the ability to independently design and build working systems.
• Experience building applications with LLMs, agentic frameworks, tool calling, or multi-agent architectures.
• Familiarity with identity, authentication, authorization, service discovery, or distributed systems.
• Ability to learn and apply emerging protocols such as MCP and A2A.
• Strong technical judgment, comfort with ambiguous open-ended problems, and experience rapidly developing prototypes, proof-of-concepts, or early-stage products.
• Backend development skills in Python, Go, Java, or TypeScript.
• Understanding of APIs, cloud infrastructure, and modern software architectures.
• Curiosity, an experimental mindset, and the ability to connect technical possibilities with business opportunities.
• Strong communication skills and comfort working with cross-functional stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Experience with agent identity, verifiable credentials, decentralized identifiers, or agent registries.
• Background in enterprise identity, IAM, SSO, OAuth, or zero-trust security.
• Experience in telecom, 5G core, NTN, network APIs, IoT, or network equipment.
• Experience at an early-stage startup, research lab, or advanced technology team.
• Open-source contributions involving AI agents, identity, or agent protocols.
• Experience taking an experimental project from concept through customer or partner validation.
• Advanced degree in AI, computer science, networking, or a related field.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work with regular office attendance in Mountain View, California.
• Medical, dental, vision, and retirement benefits, plus paid time off and holidays.
• Stock option-based equity program and monthly wellness and education reimbursements.
• Opportunity to temporarily work abroad.
• Open, transparent, inclusive culture with a worldwide workforce across three continents.