Lead Deployment Architect - AI

Location: Redwood City, California, United States; flexible hybrid work model with travel to customer locations as required by project delivery phases.

Base salary: $195,000–$215,000 USD annually, plus bonus/commission, equity, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global provides an enterprise AI and Process Intelligence platform powered by the hirify.global Context Model and Process Intelligence Graph.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end architecture for complex enterprise deployments spanning data integration, process intelligence, operational applications, automation, security, and governance.
• Define scalable technical blueprints, make architectural trade-offs, conduct design and code reviews, and ensure production readiness.
• Lead complex delivery engagements, resolve escalations, scope and estimate services in pre-sales, and validate solution feasibility.
• Advise strategic customers and senior executives on transformation roadmaps, use cases, success metrics, platform expansion, and organizational change.
• Design AI-enabled solutions combining business rules, AI reasoning, predictive and statistical models, and optimization, with appropriate evaluation, monitoring, and guardrails.
• Mentor engineers and architects, develop reusable AI delivery patterns, contribute to hiring, and feed production learnings into Product and Engineering.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in technical consulting, forward-deployed engineering, solution or enterprise architecture, or delivery leadership, including at least 3 years in a senior or lead technical role on large-scale enterprise projects.
• Experience designing and delivering end-to-end enterprise solutions involving data integration, process intelligence, operational applications, automation, enterprise architecture, security, and governance.
• Deep knowledge of SQL, Python, Bash/Shell scripting, REST/SOAP APIs, and familiarity with another general-purpose language such as Golang, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Java.
• Expert knowledge of the hirify.global platform, including the Process Intelligence Graph, data modeling, advanced PQL, Python scripting, and automation and orchestration.
• Experience designing AI solutions and directing AI-assisted or agentic development tools such as Apollo, Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor.
• Experience taking machine learning or statistical models into production, or designing and delivering an end-to-end agentic system that acts autonomously, including measurement, guardrails, and monitoring.
• Strong executive presence, customer advisory, technical delivery, pre-sales scoping, estimation, workshops, design sessions, and strategic review experience.
• Demonstrated mentoring, quality leadership, and organizational capability-building experience; formal people management is not required.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Technology Management, Business Informatics, or a comparable field; willingness to travel to customer locations is required.

Nice to have

• Degree in machine learning, statistics, data science, or a related quantitative field.
• Formal people-management experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with a flexible hybrid work model.
• RSUs and merit-based refresh grants for full-time employees.
• Paid parental leave, PTO policies, subsidized Wellhub memberships, mental health counseling, and Wellness Weeks.
• Learning and mentorship programs, a dedicated learning platform, and opportunities to contribute to inclusion and sustainability initiatives.
• Health, dental, life insurance, 401(k), and other benefits are included in the compensation package.