Senior/Staff Forward Deployed Engineer (Resilient Edge & Tactical Networking)

Location: Remote; benefits generally apply to U.S.-based employees, while benefits for employees hired outside the United States may vary by local law and hiring entity.

Company

hirify.global develops a secure, scalable distributed AI platform that runs models on edge hardware while keeping data and intellectual property private.

What you will do

• Design and implement store-and-forward transport and data-synchronization protocols for low-bandwidth, high-latency and DDIL field conditions.
• Build local peer discovery and asynchronous I/O transports over Wi-Fi, Bluetooth/BLE and ad-hoc mesh networks.
• Apply delay-tolerant networking principles, CRDTs and content-addressable storage to support offline operation and state reconciliation.
• Develop software spanning edge devices, mobile environments and upstream cloud synchronization services.
• Lead performance tuning, memory management and debugging on resource-constrained hardware in rugged, disconnected deployments.
• Implement authorization and authentication patterns and collaborate with hardware, mobile and backend teams on field validation.

Requirements

• 5–7+ years of software engineering experience building robust systems software or distributed networking services.
• Strong proficiency in Rust or another systems-level language such as Go, C or C++.
• Demonstrated experience with store-and-forward architectures, delay-tolerant networks, async I/O or local device-to-device transport layers, including BLE, TCP/IP or socket-level asynchronous networking.
• Practical experience solving synchronization problems under intermittent, contested or low-throughput DDIL network conditions.

Nice to have

• Android development experience, including NDK, Kotlin, KMP, CMP, background synchronization services or Bluetooth/Wi-Fi Direct stacks.
• Experience with hybrid mobile/cloud application architecture and state reconciliation.
• Hands-on testing of wireless networking hardware and software in physical field or operational environments outside traditional lab or SCIF settings.
• Experience with content-addressable data structures, Merkle DAGs or CRDTs.
• Expertise in embedded hardware or robotics orchestration.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote full-time position in the Public Sector department focused on secure and resilient tactical-edge systems.
• Values include truth, ownership, tenacity and humility.
• Competitive salary, performance-based incentives and equity options.
• Health, dental and vision coverage, including an HSA option with a $200/month company contribution; benefits may vary outside the United States.
• Flexible PTO, parental leave, continuing education support, life insurance, disability coverage and a 401(k) match for U.S.-based employees.