Senior Engineering Manager, AI Product Engineering

Location: Coquitlam, Canada; hybrid workplace

Salary: CAD 150,000–170,000 per year plus a 12.5% bonus

Company

hirify.global is a manufacturing, service, and technology company developing fleet safety products and technology for vehicles including school buses, waste collection trucks, emergency vehicles, police cruisers, and delivery vans.

What you will do

• Lead the architecture, development, and delivery of scalable, production-ready AI features and shared AI platforms.
• Apply generative AI, machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, LLMs, RAG, AI agents, and workflow orchestration to product challenges.
• Contribute hands-on to architecture, prototyping, coding, and complex technical problem-solving.
• Lead adoption of AI-Native Engineering and Agentic SDLC practices, including AI coding agents, Spec-Driven Development, testing, code review, and delivery automation.
• Establish engineering standards and metrics that improve productivity while maintaining quality, security, reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Lead and mentor 4–8 engineers and collaborate with Product Management, engineering teams, Security, Compliance, and other stakeholders.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including strong system design and architecture expertise.
• 3+ years of engineering leadership experience with the ability to lead and mentor technical teams.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience developing and deploying production AI applications or product features.
• Strong experience with modern AI platforms and services such as OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Google Gemini, Claude, or equivalent technologies.
• Solid understanding of LLMs, transformer-based models, prompt engineering, RAG, AI agents, workflow orchestration, data science, machine learning, predictive modeling, and model evaluation.
• Hands-on experience with AI coding agents such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or equivalent tools.
• Practical experience with AI-Native Engineering, Spec-Driven Development, AI-assisted software development workflows, and Agentic SDLC practices.
• Experience developing scalable cloud-based solutions using AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Strong technical leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• Experience developing AI-powered features for commercial software products.
• Experience with computer vision, image/video analytics, deep learning, or predictive machine learning.
• Experience with local or self-hosted models, Hugging Face, and Model Context Protocol.
• Experience with AI agent orchestration frameworks, production ML pipelines, reusable AI platforms, or shared AI services.
• Experience implementing advanced Agentic SDLC workflows with custom agents, reusable skills, automated verification, and CI/CD integration.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and regulated or security-conscious environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement based in Coquitlam.
• Full-time employment with a focus on safety, integrity, innovation, teamwork, customer focus, diversity, and inclusion.
• Performance bonus of 12.5%; final compensation depends on skills, experience, and alignment with the role.