Senior Software Engineer (AI)

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

Salary: $185K–$225K per year, plus equity and bonus opportunities.

Company

hirify.global Labs develops 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.
• Collaborate with go-to-market, Product, and Research functions to turn machine learning technology into polished user experiences.
• Own the reliability, performance, and observability of production systems serving a growing user base.
• Translate design specifications and prototypes into shippable products.
• Review code and improve engineering quality and best practices across the stack.

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong experience with Python and modern frontend frameworks such as React, Next.js, or TypeScript.
• Proficiency in Python and Django or comparable Python web frameworks, including RESTful API design, relational databases, message queues, caching strategies, and asynchronous task processing.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, SQS, CloudFront, and Lambda.
• Comfort working across the stack, with greater strength in either frontend or backend and at least working comfort in the other.
• Fluency and comfort with AI coding tools, with thoughtful judgment around their use.
• Strong sense of taste and 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 building or working with browser extensions.
• Experience with mobile applications.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment in an office-based role at the Brooklyn office.
• High autonomy, ambitious scope, and ownership of major technical decisions.
• Opportunity to work on AI detection research and products focused on authenticity and responsible AI.
• Compensation includes equity and bonus opportunities.

Hiring process

• Do not use AI to answer application questions; responses should reflect the applicant’s own words and experience.