Forward Deployed Engineer (AI)

Location: Seattle, WA preferred; McLean, VA; or remote within the USA. Some travel to customers may be required.

Salary: $150,000–$240,000 annually.

Company

hirify.global develops end-to-end AI deployment, management, and optimization solutions for enterprise customers, including AI agents and applications for healthcare, government, education, financial services, retail, and other complex industries.

What you will do

• Work directly with customers to map workflows, identify AI applications, define scope, success measures, and acceptance criteria.
• Build production-quality agents, applications, APIs, backend services, user interfaces, and integrations using hirify.global OS.
• Integrate customer systems, data sources, and identity providers, and deploy solutions in customer or hirify.global-managed environments.
• Own delivery from testing and deployment through customer validation and operational handoff, surfacing risks and dependencies early.
• Build evaluations, automated tests, observability, human review, and escalation into agent workflows while validating quality, latency, cost, and reliability.
• Apply access controls, data-handling policies, and audit logging; debug production issues and contribute reusable components and platform improvements.

Requirements

• Experience building and shipping production software with strong coding, testing, debugging, and API design fundamentals.
• Proficiency in a modern language such as Python, Java, or TypeScript, plus experience with databases, backend services, and external integrations.
• Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure, containers, CI/CD, and monitoring, with the ability to troubleshoot deployed applications.
• Ability to translate customer needs into implementable work and communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Practical understanding of LLM applications or AI agents, including limitations, evaluation, and safe interaction with customer data and systems.
• Ownership of delivery and quality, curiosity about customer operations, and comfort working through incomplete requirements.

Nice to have

• Experience as a forward deployed, product, full stack, or solutions engineer with substantial production coding responsibility.
• Domain experience in healthcare, SLED, financial services, or retail, including familiarity with sensitive data and regulated customer environments.
• Experience with agent orchestration, retrieval, LLM evaluations, enterprise identity, or complex enterprise integrations.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with a career track and opportunities for advancement.
• Employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families.
• Fourteen weeks of paid maternity and paternity leave at normal pay.
• Unlimited PTO with management approval, professional development opportunities, and continued learning.
• Optional 401(k), FSA, equity incentives, and mental health benefits.

Hiring process

• Applications may be processed through third-party hiring platforms for administration, verification, and fraud detection.
• Applications flagged for fraud or material misrepresentation may be declined from further consideration.