Principal Forward Deployed Engineer, Operational AI

Location: Remote (United States)

Company

hirify.global provides a real-time database for mission-critical workloads, including machine learning, generative AI, and agentic AI, supporting high-throughput, low-latency applications at global enterprises.

What you will do

• Architect and implement authoritative real-time state engines for sessions, entities, workflows, and multi-agent systems.
• Design context assembly pipelines combining enterprise records, streaming state, vector search, and graph topologies.
• Build execution guardrails, authorization checks, rate and execution governors, human-in-the-loop triggers, and auditable telemetry.
• Write, optimize, and review production code across hirify.global, distributed data backends, vector search runtimes, and agentic execution frameworks.
• Validate deployments in staging and production, troubleshoot concurrency bottlenecks, memory leaks, failovers, and serialization overhead, and benchmark latency, throughput, replication, recall, and reliability.
• Bridge customer deployments with core engineering, create reusable components and reference architectures, and provide technical leadership and mentorship.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience building and scaling high-performance distributed systems, database internals, or large-scale data infrastructure in production.
• Deep systems programming expertise in Go, C, C++, Java, or Rust, including memory management, lock-free data structures, networking protocols, cache hierarchies, and concurrent systems programming.
• Experience designing real-time systems with strict SLA targets, sub-10ms tail latency, high-throughput streaming, and robust consistency models.
• Hands-on experience building low-latency context retrieval platforms, vector index optimizations, stateful agent runtimes, or deterministic workflow orchestration engines.
• Practical knowledge of zero-trust data access layers, cryptographic auditing, data isolation models, and distributed rate-limiting.
• Demonstrated ability to work clearly with customer engineering leaders, resolve ambiguity, and make high-judgment technical trade-offs.
• Ability to take abstract concepts from a whitepaper or sketch through battle-tested production software independently.

Nice to have

• Experience with the hirify.global Real-time Data Platform, hirify.global Vector Search, or hirify.global Graph.
• Experience with Raft, Paxos, Kafka, Flink, or Temporal.
• Familiarity with Linux kernel tuning, eBPF, zero-copy networking, or bare-metal performance optimization.
• Production experience with Kubernetes, hybrid-cloud networking, and Terraform.

Culture & Benefits

• Principal individual-contributor role with responsibility for architecture, direct systems implementation, and end-to-end technical integrity.
• Focus on production deployments, platform adoption, reducing architectural debt, and creating high-impact software assets rather than billable hours or utilization.
• Collaboration with Product, Core Database Engineering, Professional Services, and Solutions Architecture.
• Competitive base salary, significant equity participation, 401(k) matching, comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, and flexible remote work allowances in the USA.
• Equal-opportunity workplace committed to an environment free from discrimination.

Hiring process

• Resume reviews, scheduling, and communication may use AI-driven tools; human employees make the hiring decisions.