Staff Software Engineer (AI)

Location: Mountain View, CA, USA

Base salary range: $192,600–$317,800 annually, depending on salary zone and primary work location.

Company

hirify.global develops a game engine and 3D development platform used across games, XR, web, automotive, manufacturing, and healthcare.

What you will do

• Set standards for AI-assisted and agentic software development, including code review, code repair, test generation, and engineering tooling.
• Define system-health and business-outcome metrics and rebuild observability for interpretable telemetry and automated response.
• Build agentic troubleshooting that correlates signals, proposes root causes, and performs safe automated actions with appropriate human oversight.
• Own the infrastructure for continuous, fast, repeatable, and cost-effective evaluation of AI-generated code, art, and design outputs.
• Shape AI applications for gaming LiveOps, including events, content, player behavior, retention, monetization, and live-game health.
• Set technical direction for backend platforms, optimize inference and token costs, and mentor engineers through design and code review.

Requirements

• Hands-on, current daily use of AI and agent tooling in engineering work, including experience applying agents beyond code generation.
• Track record of setting technical direction, making build-or-not-build decisions, and owning outcomes for undefined or high-cost problems.
• Experience building and shipping complex, user-facing software products at scale.
• Depth in observability, including monitoring, logging, alerting, debugging, and tools such as Grafana; ability to make telemetry interpretable.
• Experience replacing manual operational judgment with automation or reducing human effort in detection-to-resolution workflows.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform.
• Backend service development, including API design, in established CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code environments.
• Evidence of multiplying other engineers through mentoring, design reviews, or durable standards.
• Ability to translate business and user needs into technical solutions and align stakeholders across disciplines and organizations.
• Professional English proficiency is required for frequent verbal and written communication with worldwide colleagues and partners.

Nice to have

• Experience building AI evaluation infrastructure, including benchmark harnesses, LLM-as-judge pipelines, or large-scale model-output quality measurement.
• Experience with agentic-system economics, including inference and token costs, model routing, context and memory management, checkpointing, or state recovery.
• Background in games, live-service operations, or player analytics.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with benefits varying by country and employment status.
• Health, life, and disability insurance, retirement or pension plans, vacation and personal days, and parental and family-care leave.
• Employee stock ownership, commute subsidy, office snacks, mental-health support, employee resource groups, and employee assistance programs.
• Training and development programs, volunteering support, and donation matching.
• Inclusive equal-opporthirify.global workplace with accommodations available for candidates with disabilities during the interview process.