Product Engineer (AI)

Location: Remote - U.S.; open only to U.S. citizens and other U.S. Persons. The benefits section also mentions a Brooklyn Navy Yard office with 3+ days per week in person.

Base salary: $160,000–$230,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global is a startup building an AI-powered government contract data platform operating in FedRAMP High and DoW Impact Level 5 environments.

What you will do

• Own high-impact, customer-facing product areas from whiteboard through production.
• Ship daily improvements across UI, UX, and core application logic using user feedback and production data.
• Decompose ambiguous product goals into engineering plans, execute them, and measure outcomes.
• Work with the deployment team and customers to identify product gaps and determine solutions.
• Maintain ownership of shipped features, including resolving production issues.

Requirements

• 5+ years of full-stack engineering experience with a record of shipping customer-facing features end-to-end.
• Government or defense experience, including software for government users, defense technology, military service, or government contracting work.
• Strong frontend TypeScript skills with modern frameworks; Svelte/SvelteKit is strongly preferred, while React/Next.js is acceptable.
• Hands-on Postgres and backend TypeScript experience, including schema design, migrations, and query optimization.
• Ability to decompose ambiguous problems into shippable increments and communicate tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders.
• Comfort working in a fast-moving, early-stage environment with shifting priorities and end-to-end ownership.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or other U.S. Person. Clearance is not required.

Nice to have

• AI-first UX patterns, RAG pipelines, or AI agent architectures.
• Experience in FedRAMP, Impact Level, HIPAA, or other regulated environments.
• Open-source work.
• Active or previous security clearance.

Culture & Benefits

• Human Intelligence guides product decisions and customer communication, while Artificial Intelligence supports much of the building.
• Unlimited Claude and ChatGPT credits for reasonable use; extensive AI experience is expected.
• Medical, vision, and dental benefits.
• Unlimited PTO and meaningful equity in a well-funded, fast-growing startup.
• A Brooklyn Navy Yard office is mentioned with 3+ days per week in person.

Hiring process

• 30-minute introductory conversation about background and working style.
• One-hour technical interview with real-world-inspired exercises, followed by 15-minute co-founder conversations.
• One-day work trial with the team, followed by an offer.