Applied AI Engineer | L&D

Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina; hybrid work setup.

Company

hirify.global is building an AI-powered financial companion for Latinos in the US, combining conversational AI with real-time financial infrastructure for remittances and broader immigrant financial services.

What you will do

• Build and improve reference agents, tool integrations, and workflows using Python, LLM SDKs, and APIs.
• Pair with colleagues to scope builds, review code, and 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, evaluations, and troubleshooting documentation on approved platforms including Maestro.
• Lead hands-on bootcamps and learning tracks, teach live builds and debugging, and mentor colleagues through code reviews.
• Test 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.
• RAG and vector databases.
• Experience building maintainable starter kits or reusable components.
• Experience supporting operations teams.

Culture & Benefits

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

Hiring process

• Teaching and mentoring capability is assessed through a live pairing or debugging exercise during the interview.