Founding Member of Technical Staff (AI)

Location: United States; must be based in or willing to relocate to Northern Virginia. The team builds in person. Workplace type: Remote.

Competitive salary plus meaningful founding equity.

Company

hirify.global develops Arbi, an AI recruiting platform combining autonomous agents with recruiters, and Athena, an agent infrastructure product for federal agency workflows.

What you will do

• Design, build, and ship end-to-end product features, primarily powered by LLMs.
• Develop agent execution infrastructure and systems that determine whom to contact, what to say, and when to involve a human.
• Build feedback loops that improve search quality from recruiter behavior.
• Develop candidate interviewing capabilities at scale and turn conversations into proprietary hiring data.
• Build multi-tenant deployments for regulated customers and work directly with the founders on core technical questions.

Requirements

• Have built something from scratch, such as a startup, product, or system people depend on.
• Demonstrate a strong shipping record and high agency in identifying and solving high-leverage problems.
• Show excellence in work, school, open source, or a successful side project.
• Have real experience with Next.js, Node.js, AWS, and search or data infrastructure.
• Be based in or willing to relocate to Northern Virginia and work in person.

Nice to have

• Experience with LLM products, voice or conversational AI, or search at scale.

Culture & Benefits

• Direct ownership of core systems from day one as one of the first engineering hires.
• Meaningful founding equity and the opportunity to shape the architecture.
• Work on federal hiring, regulated industries, and other high-stakes problems.
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage.
• Meals provided in the office and relocation support for the right candidate.