Staff Software Engineer (AI)

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

Salary: $260K–$330K annually, 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 authentic human communication.

What you will do

• Own and ship product features end-to-end across consumer and B2B products.
• Work with GTM, Product, and Research to turn machine learning technology into polished user experiences.
• Own the reliability, performance, and observability of production systems.
• Turn design specifications and prototypes into working products.
• Review code and raise engineering quality standards across the company.
• Establish and improve engineering practices across the stack.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience delivering significant impact as an individual contributor across varied product and engineering needs.
• Strong experience with Python and modern frontend frameworks such as React, Next, and TypeScript.
• Proficiency with 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 EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, SQS, CloudFront, or Lambda.
• Comfort across the full stack, with greater strength in either frontend or backend and working competence in the other.
• Fluency and comfort with AI coding tools and thoughtful use of them.
• Strong craftsmanship, bias toward action, and clear communication skills.
• Interest in AI, machine learning, LLMs, AI safety, and responsible AI.

Nice to have

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

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time, office-based role in the Brooklyn office, five days per week.
• High-autonomy, mission-driven environment with ambitious scope and ownership.
• Hands-on individual-contributor position reporting to the CTO.
• Equity and bonus opportunities are offered in addition to salary.

Hiring process

• Application answers must be written by the candidate without using AI tools.