Applied AI Engineer (L&D)

Location: Hybrid work setup in Guadalajara, Mexico

Company

hirify.global is building an AI-powered financial companion for Latinos in the US, combining conversational AI with real-time financial infrastructure for cross-border money movement, remittances, credit, savings, and wallet services.

What you will do

• Build and improve reference agents, tool integrations, and workflows using Python, LLM SDKs, and APIs.
• Pair with colleagues on practical builds, review code, debug prompts, retrieval, tool calls, state, permissions, and failures.
• Run technical office hours, triage requests, track issues to closure, and escalate complex integration, data, security, or production problems.
• Create reusable starter kits, tested agents, integration patterns, troubleshooting guides, documentation, and learning resources on approved platforms including Maestro.
• Develop technical content for hands-on bootcamps, teach through live builds and debugging, and mentor colleagues through guided builds and code reviews.
• Test new platform capabilities, share practical guidance, and track blocker resolution, resource reuse, and sustained adoption.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience building LLM applications, agents, or automations for real users, including analyzing failures and improving solutions.
• Strong Python, APIs, authentication, Git, testing, and debugging skills, with practical experience using at least one LLM SDK such as OpenAI or Google.
• Ability to read logs and traces, isolate failures, and create reproducible examples.
• Experience with tool calling, multi-step workflows, state, structured outputs, human review, and failure handling.
• Ability to build evaluations and explain quality, latency, cost, and data safeguards.
• Experience mentoring builders and mixed technical and business audiences through live builds and debugging, with follow-through after training.
• Ability to turn ambiguous requests into testable hypotheses, know when to escalate, and close the loop.

Nice to have

• Practical SQL and CI/CD experience.
• Experience with RAG and vector databases.
• Maintainable starter kits or reusable components.
• Experience supporting operations teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive salary, initial stock options grant, and annual performance bonus.
• Unlimited PTO and paid parental leave.
• Hybrid work setup with health, dental, and vision plans.
• Continuous learning and growth opportunities in a dynamic entrepreneurial environment.
• Culture centered on customer focus, urgency, extreme ownership, collaboration without ego, transparency, curiosity, and experimentation.

Hiring process

• The technical teaching capability is assessed through a live pairing or debugging exercise during the interview.