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; up to 20% travel to customer sites required.

Annual base salary: $148,000–$222,000 USD for Pleasanton and $123,900–$222,000 USD 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, configure, test, debug, deploy, and optimize custom AI agents and agentic applications in live enterprise tenants.
• Participate in technical discovery with customer stakeholders and translate business requirements into configurations, proof-of-concepts, and integration specifications.
• Use Developer Agent, Agent-Ready Tools, Agent Harness, hirify.global Data Cloud, and related platform capabilities to deliver production agent systems.
• Document bugs, edge-case failures, and developer-tool friction with reproducible details for Product, AI, and Integration Platform teams.
• Contribute reusable components, sample code, documentation, reference architectures, playbooks, and deployment patterns based on recurring field challenges.
• Own defined technical workstreams within standard six-month customer deployment cycles and collaborate with FDEs, AI Deployment Architects, Product Managers, and hirify.global Services leads.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Engineering, Technical Consulting, or Software Development.
• Hands-on experience building with LLMs or agentic systems, including areas such as tool and 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 working knowledge of REST APIs, object-oriented design, and integration patterns.
• Experience working directly with customers or business stakeholders on technical deployments, troubleshooting, or integrations.
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 20% to customer sites.
• Ability to identify broader product needs from one-off customer issues, communicate technical topics to technical and non-technical audiences, and work effectively in ambiguous, fast-paced, multidisciplinary environments.

Nice to have

• Working knowledge of hirify.global business processes, security and permissions, tenant configuration, or integrations.
• Experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP), Agent2Agent (A2A), MCP servers, agent development kits, or orchestration frameworks.
• Familiarity with evaluating and testing LLM-powered systems.
• Experience with hirify.global Extend, hirify.global Orchestrate, or hirify.global Integrations.
• Open-source contributions, side projects, or hackathon work involving AI agents or developer tooling.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible work combines remote work with intentional in-person time; at least 50% of each quarter is spent in the office or field depending on the role.
• Full-time employment with eligibility for the hirify.global Bonus Plan or role-specific commission/bonus and annual refresh stock grants.
• hirify.global provides comprehensive benefits and reasonable accommodations during the hiring process.
• hirify.global is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records where required by applicable Fair Chance law.

Hiring process

• Apply through hirify.global Careers; hirify.global does not request recruiting, consulting, or coaching fees.
• Contact accommodations@hirify.global.com in advance if a reasonable accommodation is required during the application process.