Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (AI)

Location: Remote within the United States, with at least 50% of each quarter spent in the office or in the field with customers, prospects, or partners; travel to customer sites up to 20%.

Annual base salary: $176,000–$264,000 for Pleasanton, CA; $148,200–$264,000 for additional US locations.

Company

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

What you will do

• Build, deploy, configure, and debug custom AI agents and agentic applications in live enterprise tenants.
• Lead technical discovery with enterprise stakeholders and translate business requirements into product configurations, proofs of concept, and integration specifications.
• Use Developer Agent, Agent-Ready Tools, Agent Harness, hirify.global Data Cloud, and related platform capabilities to develop governed agent systems.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Services, and other FDE teams to provide toolkit feedback, capture deployment friction, and influence the product roadmap.
• Convert recurring customer deployment challenges into standardized capabilities, reference architectures, playbooks, and implementation guidance.
• Guide technical workstreams from kickoff through graduation within standard six-month deployment cycles.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Engineering, Technical Consulting, or Software Development.
• Hands-on experience building with LLMs or agentic systems, including tool or function calling, prompt and context engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, or agent orchestration.
• Hands-on coding and debugging skills in Python, Java, or a similar language, with knowledge 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 integration.
• Ability to derive generalizable product requirements from bespoke customer issues.
• Exceptional written and verbal technical communication, including explaining complex technical challenges to non-technical leadership.
• Ability to work effectively with evolving requirements across Product, Engineering, Services, and Sales teams.
• Collaborative approach to multidisciplinary account and delivery pods.
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 20% to customer sites.

Nice to have

• Working knowledge of hirify.global business processes, security and permissions, tenant configuration, and integrations.
• Experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP), Agent2Agent (A2A), MCP servers, or multi-agent systems.
• Experience with agent development kits or orchestration frameworks.
• Experience designing agent evaluations, observability, guardrails, and protections against prompt injection and tool misuse, including least-privilege access.
• Experience building developer tools, SDKs, or platforms.
• Experience with hirify.global Extend, hirify.global Orchestrate, or hirify.global Integrations.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible work combines remote work with in-person time; remote home-office roles can also join important events at hirify.global offices.
• At least 50% of each quarter is spent in the office or field, depending on the role.
• Eligible roles may receive a hirify.global Bonus Plan or role-specific commission or bonus and annual refresh stock grants.
• hirify.global provides reasonable accommodations during the employment application process and is an equal opportunity employer.
• Employment includes consideration under applicable Fair Chance laws and protections for reporting violations or requesting accommodations.

Hiring process

• Applications must be submitted through hirify.global Careers; hirify.global does not request recruiting fees or payment for consulting or coaching services.
• Employee referrals should be handled through the hirify.global Employee Referral process.
• Accommodation requests may be sent to accommodations@hirify.global.com as far in advance as possible.