Director, Agentic Lab (AI)

Location: East Hanover, United States; onsite at the East Hanover site with no remote option. Up to 20% domestic and/or international travel required. No relocation provided; only local candidates considered.

Salary: $194,600–$361,400 per year, plus performance-based cash incentive and potential annual equity awards.

Company

hirify.global is a pharmaceutical company developing medicines and enterprise capabilities, including AI-driven solutions.

What you will do

• Lead rapid prototyping and technical validation of agentic AI solutions and autonomous workflows.
• Evaluate foundation models, agent frameworks, orchestration technologies, and developer tooling.
• Develop reusable proof-of-concepts, accelerators, and reference implementations for the Agentic Factory.
• Partner with AI Engineering, Platform Engineering, Product, and Architecture teams to productionize successful prototypes.
• Define engineering practices for prompt engineering, reasoning, memory architectures, evaluation, observability, and AI-agent standards.
• Mentor AI engineers and support experimentation, innovation, and continuous learning.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 7+ years of experience building AI, machine learning, or software engineering solutions, including technical leadership experience.
• Hands-on expertise with LLMs, agent frameworks, RAG, vector databases, APIs, Python, and cloud-native development.
• Strong software engineering background with experience building production-grade AI applications.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across research, engineering, and business teams.

Nice to have

• Experience in pharmaceutical, healthcare, or other regulated industries.
• Experience building enterprise agentic AI platforms and developer ecosystems.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with a culture of experimentation, innovation, mentorship, and continuous learning.
• US-based eligible employees receive health, life, and disability benefits.
• 401(k) with company contribution and match.
• Vacation, personal days, holidays, and other leaves.
• Performance-based cash incentive and potential annual equity awards depending on role level.