Applied AI Engineer II

Location: Hybrid in Addison, Texas or Durham, North Carolina, United States

Annual base salary: $154,000–$236,000, plus equity and benefits.

Company

hirify.global develops autonomous IT and endpoint security products that provide real-time intelligence, agentic decision-making, and autonomous execution for IT and security operations.

What you will do

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain AI agents and machine learning models for complex business problems.
• Build and maintain high-performance, scalable backend systems for LLMs and AI agents.
• Integrate AI solutions into existing systems and workflows with cross-functional teams, product management, and customers.
• Optimize and fine-tune models and AI agents for performance, accuracy, and efficiency.
• Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines for AI model and agent deployment.
• Monitor and troubleshoot production AI systems to ensure reliability and robustness.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; a computer science degree is preferred.
• At least 3 years of professional experience, including proven experience as an AI Developer, AI Engineer, or in a similar role.
• Expert knowledge of at least one of Go, Python, or Java; Go is preferred. Experience with Kubernetes is required.
• Strong understanding of machine learning algorithms and frameworks such as TensorFlow or PyTorch.
• Experience with LLMs, AI agents, and natural language processing techniques.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP and with containerization technologies.
• Ability to balance rapid development with long-term code maintainability and supportability, communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences, and write automated tests.
• Strong debugging skills for resolving production issues under pressure; familiarity with modern server-side and browser-side frameworks and the ability to learn new tools.
• Detail-oriented approach and passion for creating a strong user experience; initiative, teamwork, integrity, adaptability, and excellent oral and written communication.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, respectful, diverse, and inclusive work environment focused on solving complex IT challenges for large enterprises and governments.
• Full-time employment with medical, dental, vision, family planning, HSA, FSA, transportation savings, 401(k) with company match, insurance, and well-being benefits.
• Equity awards and five days of paid volunteer time off annually.
• Employment is subject to hirify.global information protection and compliance with applicable company policies and agreements.