Software Engineer, Federal (AI)

Location: Remote with flexibility; preference for candidates based in San Francisco, CA (HQ) or Washington, D.C. Customer-site work may be required.

Company

hirify.global builds a platform for self-improving software development that helps enterprise engineering teams operate autonomous software factories.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and deploy AI-driven agentic systems for federal missions.
• Deploy and harden the Factory Platform in GovCloud, on-premises, classified, and fully air-gapped environments using self-hosted or government-approved models.
• Build security, compliance, guardrails, observability, and explainability into AI agents, supporting FedRAMP High and DoD Impact Levels IL5/IL6.
• Work directly with federal customers, including on-site when needed, to define requirements and deliver solutions from prototype through production deployment.
• Integrate with on-premises source control, CI/CD pipelines, ticketing systems, and DoD software factories.
• Improve platform stability, scalability, data processing, and reuse of mission-specific capabilities across the public sector while contributing to proposals, capture strategy, and the product roadmap.

Requirements

• 2+ years of hands-on software engineering experience after completing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, AI, or a related technical field.
• Proficiency with LLMs and demonstrated experience applying AI/ML techniques to complex, unstructured problems, ideally in software engineering or related areas.
• Ability to navigate ambiguous projects autonomously from conception through impactful deployment, ideally in a founding team, new initiative, or forward-deployed engineering group.
• Strong communication skills for explaining technical concepts and strategies to technical and non-technical government stakeholders, with a strategic and innovation-oriented mindset.
• Comfort working directly with customers, including time on-site at customer locations.
• Passion for public sector work and belief in technology's potential to improve government outcomes.

Nice to have

• Experience deploying software in regulated or secure environments such as AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, FedRAMP, DoD Impact Levels, classified networks, or air-gapped networks.
• Familiarity with government procurement, compliance, and the accreditation (ATO) process.
• Experience with data-intensive applications and familiarity with the software development lifecycle.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time engineering role on the founding Federal team.
• Work directly with the Department of War, the Intelligence Community, and federal civilian agencies.
• Location flexibility with a preference for San Francisco, CA or Washington, D.C.; customer-site work may be required.
• Opportunity to work on secure, classified, and air-gapped government software environments.