Staff Software Engineer (AI Agents)

Location: New York City, NY or San Francisco, United States

Salary: $240,000–$300,000 per year, plus 0.13%–0.24% equity

Company

hirify.global builds an AI operating system for the industrial supply chain, providing staffing and AI agents that automate workflows, analyze operational data, and improve decision-making for warehouses, manufacturers, logistics providers, and 3PLs.

What you will do

• Architect the agent platform, including the orchestration runtime, evaluation and observability stack, and integrations with internal and customer WMS, TMS, and ERP systems.
• Own model strategy, harness design, retrieval and memory architecture, tool/MCP interfaces, and quality measurement.
• Work directly with customers and operators to convert field observations into durable product and deployment patterns.
• Build evaluation infrastructure with datasets, graders, regression suites, and experimentation tools.
• Hire and mentor engineers while establishing engineering quality standards.
• Partner with the CTO, product, and operations leadership on the platform roadmap.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years of hands-on production work with LLM- or agent-based systems.
• Deep expertise in Python and/or TypeScript/Node.js.
• Experience designing distributed systems, APIs, and data models with PostgreSQL and modern messaging systems such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or equivalent.
• Ownership of a substantial production agent system covering orchestration, tool use, retrieval, evaluations, observability, and cost/latency optimization.
• Experience in at least one of vertical AI or AI-agent companies, forward-deployed engineering, or AI-native data companies.
• Experience leading 0-to-1 builds in early-stage environments and operating effectively amid ambiguity.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including customer workshops, technical design documentation, and recruiting.

Nice to have

• Experience with supply chain, logistics, or industrial operations.
• Background in customer-site or forward-deployed engineering.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with startup equity and competitive salary.
• 100% paid health, dental, and vision coverage.
• Additional benefits include One Medical, Gympass, HSA via Optum, Talkspace, HealthAdvocate, and Teladoc Health.
• New York employees receive dinner via DoorDash, free DashPass, a stocked kitchen, and commuter benefits.
• Values emphasize ambitious long-term work, resilience, high ownership, and customer-focused product development.