Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (AI)

Location: Dublin, Ireland; Flex Work with at least 50% of each quarter spent in the office or in the field with customers, prospects, or partners.

Salary: €86,400–€129,600 annual base salary in Ireland, with potential bonus, commission, and annual refresh stock grants.

Company

hirify.global is a Fortune 500 company and AI platform for managing people, money, and agents.

What you will do

• Deploy, configure, debug, and optimize AI agents and integrations in live enterprise tenant environments using real customer data and workflows.
• Lead technical discovery with customer stakeholders and translate business requirements into product configurations, proofs of concept, and integration specifications.
• Capture field telemetry, edge-case failures, and customer friction to influence the product roadmap and engineering backlog.
• Transform recurring deployment challenges and custom fixes into standardized, automated product capabilities.
• Collaborate with AI Deployment Architects, Product Managers, hirify.global Services leads, and Account Teams throughout delivery.
• Guide engagements from kickoff to graduation within standard six-month deployment cycles, enabling customer ownership.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Engineering, Technical Consulting, or Software Development.
• Hands-on coding and debugging skills in Python, Java, or a similar language.
• Solid understanding of REST APIs, object-oriented design, system architecture, and integration patterns.
• Experience working directly with enterprise clients on complex software deployments, live data troubleshooting, and custom workflow integrations.
• Ability to derive generalizable product requirements from bespoke customer issues.
• Exceptional verbal and written technical communication skills, including explaining complex technical challenges to non-technical leadership.
• Ability to work effectively in fast-paced environments with evolving requirements across Product, Engineering, and Services teams.
• Highly collaborative, low-ego approach within multidisciplinary account and delivery pods.
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 20% to customer sites.

Nice to have

• Applied experience with LLM-powered or agentic AI systems, including prompt or context engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, evaluations, or agent orchestration frameworks.
• Working understanding of how model behavior creates product and customer-facing issues in the field.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible work combining office and remote work, with at least half of each quarter spent in the office or field depending on the role.
• Potential eligibility for the hirify.global Bonus Plan or role-specific commission or bonus.
• Annual refresh stock grants may be included in the compensation package.
• Reasonable accommodations are available during the application process.
• hirify.global provides equal employment opportunities and considers qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with applicable Fair Chance law.