Software Engineer (AI)

Location: Brooklyn, United States; office-based five days per week

Salary: $135K–$165K per year, plus equity and bonus opportunities.

Company

hirify.global Labs builds AI detection systems, research, and products that help individuals, institutions, and companies detect AI-generated written content and preserve authenticity.

What you will do

• Own and ship product features end-to-end across consumer and B2B products.
• Work with Go-to-Market, Product, and Research functions to turn machine learning technology into polished user experiences.
• Design, build, scale, and operate production systems, owning reliability, performance, and observability.
• Turn design specifications and prototypes into shippable products.
• Review code and improve engineering quality and best practices across the stack.

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong experience with Python and modern front-end frameworks such as React, Next.js, and TypeScript.
• Back-end experience with Python, Django or comparable Python web frameworks, RESTful API design, relational databases, message queues, caching strategies, and asynchronous task processing.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services, including examples such as EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, SQS, CloudFront, and Lambda.
• Comfort working across the stack, with strength in either front-end or back-end development and at least working comfort in the other.
• Fluency and comfort with AI coding tools, with thoughtful judgment about their use.
• Strong craftsmanship, bias toward action, and clear communication skills.
• Interest in AI, machine learning, and LLMs, including AI safety and responsible AI.

Nice to have

• Experience working at an early-stage startup.
• Experience with browser extensions.
• Experience with mobile applications.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time, office-based work in Brooklyn, five days per week.
• Opportunity to work on AI detection technology focused on preserving authenticity and human connection.
• Compensation includes equity and bonus opportunities.
• The role reports to the CTO and involves collaboration across Engineering, Product, Research, and Go-to-Market functions.

Hiring process

• Application questions must be answered personally without using AI; hirify.global wants to hear directly from applicants.