AI Engineer II (Generative AI)

Location: Remote; San Ramon, CA

Annual salary: $85,000–$124,000, negotiable based on experience and location; discretionary annual bonus eligible.

Company

hirify.global provides corporate and professional staffing services and is hiring for its Corporate Services facility.

What you will do

• Develop, deploy, and support GenAI-enabled applications, including LLM-powered workflows, RAG pipelines, APIs, cloud services, and AI-driven user experiences.
• Design retrieval layers with embeddings, chunking, vector search, prompt workflows, LLM integrations, and model orchestration.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines, containerization, release processes, testing, deployment governance, and production support.
• Evaluate models for accuracy, relevance, hallucination risk, and cost; optimize tokens and caching.
• Implement safety guardrails including PII protection and prompt-injection defense.
• Monitor and troubleshoot production systems for latency, cost, usage, errors, incidents, fallback, and recovery.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in IT or a related field, including 2+ years of software engineering experience and 1+ year of GenAI deployment experience.
• Experience with AI coding agent-augmented development, application building and deployment, and cost optimization using token and caching strategies.
• Experience with Python, Java, C#, JavaScript, or SQL.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms, containers, CI/CD, SDLC, APIs, system architecture, databases, and data integration.
• Understanding of LLM fundamentals and token behavior; experience with prompt engineering and RAG pipelines including embeddings and vector search.
• Experience with LLMOps/MLOps, versioning, experiment tracking, evaluation metrics, observability, logging, tracing, and monitoring.
• Knowledge of GenAI debugging, safety mechanisms, deployment governance, access control, and compliance.
• Experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Strong communication and requirements-gathering skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with model orchestration, multi-step workflows, agents, LangChain, Semantic Kernel, or AutoGen.
• Experience designing embeddings and semantic search solutions.
• Experience with experimentation and A/B testing of prompts and models.
• Experience with conversational UX and human-AI interaction design.
• Experience with incident handling, retries, and graceful degradation.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work arrangement.
• Medical, vision, and dental insurance; FSA and HSA healthcare accounts.
• Life and accident insurance, adoption and fertility assistance, paid parental leave of up to 6 weeks, and short- and long-term disability coverage.
• Paid vacation, personal, and sick time; up to 17 days of Choice Time Off per calendar year for new hires and up to 11 paid holidays.
• Eligible employees may contribute to a 401(k) or deferred compensation plan, with a 100% employer match on the first 3% of contributions.
• Employment offers are contingent upon successful completion of a background check.

Hiring process

• Successful completion of a background check is required after an offer.
• Applicants needing reasonable accommodation must provide the requested accommodation and the city and state of the intended application location.