Staff Software Engineer (Applied AI)

Location: Remote; restricted to U.S. persons, including U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, asylees, or refugees, due to U.S. critical infrastructure protection regulations.

Salary: $250,000–$265,000 in Tier 1 markets; $231,000–$258,000 in Tier 3 U.S. markets; bonus offered.

Company

hirify.global provides cloud-based software for utility and grid interconnection lifecycle management, helping utilities, grid operators, and policymakers reduce interconnection processing times.

What you will do

• Translate customer needs into executable workflows covering triggers, outcomes, participants, evidence, decisions, exceptions, and handoffs.
• Build and ship AI-assisted experiences, typed tools, service integrations, and workflow orchestration within the existing application.
• Extend reusable foundations for reliable orchestration, resumability, grounded retrieval, human approvals, and authorized actions.
• Lead technical execution by decomposing opportunities, resolving cross-team dependencies, and guiding implementation with Product, Design, engineering, and domain experts.
• Create representative evaluations for correctness, incomplete information, permissions, exceptions, and failure recovery.
• Engineer production reliability across latency, model and tool costs, observability, safe rollout, prompt injection, and unauthorized tool actions while measuring customer outcomes.

Requirements

• Demonstrable experience delivering customer-facing software and leading consequential technical work across teams or services.
• Hands-on experience building production AI applications that retrieve information, invoke tools, or coordinate multi-step work.
• Strong software engineering skills, including APIs, structured contracts, asynchronous execution, testing, and observability.
• Experience connecting AI capabilities to real application state and authorized actions, rather than only conversational prototypes.
• Sound judgment about the appropriate roles of deterministic logic, AI assistance, and human decisions.
• Experience designing evaluations and investigating failures involving incomplete data, ambiguous requirements, or unreliable model outputs.
• Ability to work directly with customers and domain experts, clarify ambiguous needs, and translate needs into bounded, testable solutions.
• Clear communication and ability to increase the effectiveness of other engineers through technical leadership.
• Ability to partner with qualified experts rather than substitute AI judgment for engineering authority.

Nice to have

• Experience with electric utility, interconnection, transmission, distribution, DER, storage, or large-load workflows.
• Experience with regulated or evidence-intensive enterprise applications.
• Experience with TypeScript, Node.js, React, and cloud-based service architectures.
• Experience with document processing, workflow engines, engineering-tool integration, or enterprise authorization models.
• Deep electrical engineering expertise.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first work with flexibility and work-life balance.
• Lean, fast-moving, mission-driven environment emphasizing bold thinking, reliability, radical transparency, scrappiness, and continuous learning.
• Professional development through training, mentorship, and career pathing.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance from day one, plus short- and long-term disability and basic life insurance at no cost.
• 401(k) plan with a 4% match, flexible PTO, and bonus opportunities.
• Opportunity to work on software supporting a more sustainable and resilient electric grid.