Forward Deployed Engineer (AI)

Location: Palo Alto, CA; in-office 4 days a week and 1 day flexible

Annual base salary: $100,000–$200,000

Company

hirify.global builds an autonomous AI sourcing platform that manages the enterprise procurement intake-to-award process, including supplier evaluation and negotiation.

What you will do

• Build custom connectors, data pipelines, and prototypes for customer-specific procurement requirements.
• Extend the core product and ship production code through code review, testing, and release processes.
• Lead enterprise deployments from kickoff through go-live, adoption, and production monitoring.
• Integrate the platform with ERP, procurement, contract management, identity, and other systems using APIs, webhooks, and SSO.
• Configure sourcing workflows, approval rules, governance, agent guardrails, negotiation parameters, and evaluation criteria.
• Partner with procurement, IT, and information security stakeholders, measure deployment outcomes, and turn field insights into reusable platform capabilities.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience as a software engineer, forward deployed engineer, or solutions engineer, including production code delivery and direct customer exposure.
• Experience at an AI-native company or on an AI-native platform, with production exposure to LLM applications, agents, or workflow automation.
• Knowledge of designing, evaluating, and monitoring LLM-powered systems, including prompt design, tool use, retrieval, guardrails, and output evaluation.
• Strong proficiency in Python or TypeScript and working knowledge of REST APIs, webhooks, JSON, and SQL.
• Experience contributing to a shared production codebase, including code review, testing, and CI/CD.
• Experience integrating enterprise systems such as ERP, CRM, procurement, or identity platforms, with familiarity with SSO, OAuth, and role-based access control.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP and understanding of enterprise security and data privacy expectations, including GDPR and CCPA.
• Clear written and verbal communication, sound judgment in ambiguous customer situations, ownership of outcomes, and ability to manage multiple deployments simultaneously.
• Willingness to travel to customer sites as needed.

Nice to have

• Background in procurement, sourcing, supply chain, or finance technology.
• Experience with SAP Ariba, Coupa, or Jaggaer.
• Experience with agent frameworks, evaluation tooling, or multi-agent orchestration.
• Experience building developer tooling, SDKs, or APIs for other engineers.
• Prior ownership of a customer-facing product feature from design through production.

Culture & Benefits

• Work closely with Product and Engineering while taking ownership of deployment strategy and customer outcomes.
• Work in the Palo Alto office 4 days per week; 1 day may be worked wherever most effective.
• Participate in a diverse and inclusive workplace with equal employment opportunity and E-Verify participation.
• Annual base salary range of $100,000–$200,000, depending on experience, skills, and location.