Staff Engineer, Engineering-wide (AI)

Location: Hybrid in San Francisco, CA, with Palo Alto, CA as another location; United States

Company

hirify.global is a San Francisco-based AI company building intelligence interfaces and infrastructure that capture, structure, and use information from conversations. Its products serve more than 3,000,000 users worldwide, with a focus on AI productivity, data security, and privacy.

What you will do

• Rotate across product, platform, and infrastructure teams to solve their highest-leverage engineering problems.
• Ship production code and resolve migrations, reliability issues, on-call problems, CI performance issues, and AI quality gaps.
• Lead cross-team technical designs covering shared APIs, data contracts, and product-platform handoffs.
• Improve testing, observability, runbooks, code review, and evaluation practices in CI/CD.
• Guide architecture across the device, capture, transcription, AI notes, AI agent, and underlying service stack.
• Mentor senior engineers in the US and Asia and drive AI-assisted engineering practices.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years at Staff level or equivalent scope.
• Deep expertise in more than one area, such as backend distributed systems, mobile or client development, data pipelines, or ML/LLM systems, with the ability to ramp up on unfamiliar code.
• Experience leading cross-team technical work, including design documents and migrations adopted by other engineers.
• Strong Go or Python skills plus at least one client stack: iOS, Android, React, or Electron.
• Cloud-native experience with AWS or GCP and Kubernetes.
• Experience shipping production LLM features, including retrieval, prompt pipelines, evaluations, and latency and cost management.
• Excellent written communication and comfort working across time zones and cultures.
• Low ego, high ownership, and a willingness to support team success.
• Regular use of AI tools in daily work, with the ability to demonstrate usage from the last two weeks during the interview.

Nice to have

• Recognized technical influence through open-source contributions, highly starred GitHub repositories, conference talks, or technical publications.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time role in a fast-moving, product-driven environment focused on craftsmanship, ownership, collaboration, and velocity.
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan providing a stake in hirify.global’s long-term success.
• Access to AI tools including Gemini, Claude Code, and other frontier AI systems.
• Choice of high-spec laptops, workstation setups, and hirify.global devices.
• Annual company offsites and team events, with opportunities for continuous learning and career development.

Hiring process

• During the interview, demonstrate AI-tool usage from the last two weeks.