Forward Deployed Engineer (AI)

Location: San Francisco office, fully in-person

Salary: $180K–$252K plus equity

Company

hirify.global is an AI lab building machine-native intelligence infrastructure for automation by combining LLM intelligence with the reliability of code. Its first public model, Jev, is used by around one-third of the Fortune 500.

What you will do

• Help customers identify valuable Jev use cases, understand workflows, prove performance, and unblock engineering teams.
• Build internal tools, prototypes, demos, cookbooks, documentation, example repositories, technical blogs, visual explainers, and case studies.
• Deliver technical demos and talks to engineering executives and community audiences; support hackathons and answer developer questions.
• Partner with account executives on technical discovery, demos, and evaluation results that support successful deals.
• Provide product feedback based on customer use cases and help evolve the Forward Deployed Engineer function.

Requirements

• Strong product sense and the ability to identify customer goals and high-impact opportunities.
• Hands-on engineering ability, including rapidly prototyping demos, writing evaluation scripts, and working with data across customer domains.
• Interest in working closely with customers, understanding their organizations, and building relationships.
• Technical judgment covering representative datasets, baselines, precision and recall, thresholds, and failure analysis, including explaining model strengths and limitations.
• Clear communication with developers and business stakeholders through technical conversations, demos, documentation, and example code.
• Experience in a customer-facing technical role such as Forward Deployed Engineer, solutions engineer, or sales engineer; alternatively, product engineering, applied AI, or founder experience with a strong customer focus.
• Ability to work autonomously in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment and identify areas of highest leverage and impact.
• Ability to work fully in person from the San Francisco office.

Culture & Benefits

• Small, flat, close-knit team focused on real-world impact and Transformative AI.
• Culture centered on excellence, craftsmanship, collaboration, emotional honesty, and kindness.
• 100% covered health insurance and visa sponsorships.
• Daily lunch and dinner.
• 401(k) plans.