Staff Software Engineer ML Platform (AI)

Location: Onsite in San Diego or San Mateo, California, United States

Salary: $200,000–$300,000 per year, plus bonus, benefits, and equity for regular full-time employees.

Company

hirify.global is a venture-backed defense-tech company developing intelligent systems, including Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and simulation and synthetic-reality technologies.

What you will do

• Build experiment-tracking and model-registry backend services, integrating tools such as MLflow where appropriate.
• Connect dataset, code, and configuration versions to training runs, checkpoints, and model versions.
• Develop APIs and adapters connecting training jobs, data services, and artifact storage.
• Design reliable state handling, retries, diagnostics, and recovery for interrupted or failed workflows.
• Make checkpoints, model artifacts, and evaluation results searchable and retrievable for training, evaluation, and deployment.
• Work with machine-learning engineers to simplify workflows and deliver tested, observable services compatible with cloud and customer-managed environments.

Requirements

• Production backend-service experience for machine-learning platforms or data-intensive workflows.
• Strong software-engineering skills in Python or a comparable backend language.
• Experience designing APIs, metadata models, and persistent state for services used by other engineers.
• Experience handling storage, partial failures, retries, and consistency in distributed systems.
• Understanding of training runs, checkpoints, and model versioning.
• Ability to work directly with machine-learning users and deliver maintainable software addressing workflow problems.

Nice to have

• Experience with MLflow, Weights & Biases, model registries, or comparable experiment-management tools.
• Experience integrating Kubernetes jobs, object storage, or machine-learning workflow systems.
• Experience with reproducibility, data provenance, or evaluation records.
• Experience supporting open-source software or on-premises and air-gapped deployments.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on an AI platform supporting autonomy development and operational deployment in defense.
• Contribute to reference architecture used internally and delivered to customers building AI capabilities.
• Regular full-time employees receive pay within the listed range, bonus, benefits, and equity.
• Offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check.
• Temporary employees receive the listed pay range and a temporary benefits package applicable after 60 days; part-time employees and military fellows are not eligible for benefits.