Senior AI Engineer, People

Location: New York, New York; based in the New York City Office

Base wage: $166,000–$214,000 per year

Company

hirify.global helps businesses manage HR issues and focus on running their businesses through a data-driven product.

What you will do

• Drive the People team’s AI transformation roadmap by architecting, building, and maintaining intelligent operational workflows.
• Build agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, and integrations that scale from human-AI handoffs to AI-driven systems.
• Analyze Snowflake data models and Workday-to-Snowflake pipelines to ensure reliable AI use of structured and unstructured data.
• Design evaluation frameworks for accuracy, latency, retrieval precision, hallucination rates, and user satisfaction.
• Implement privacy controls, role-based access, PII handling, audit trails, and responsible AI practices for workforce data.
• Partner with People, engineering, data, governance, and security stakeholders to deliver maintainable, enterprise-grade systems.

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional, hands-on builder or software engineering experience.
• 2+ years of hands-on production experience building with LLMs and AI tooling, including agent frameworks, pipelines, retrieval systems, or AI-integrated workflows used by real users.
• Familiarity with LLM observability tooling such as LangSmith, Datadog LLM monitoring, or equivalent.
• Systems-level understanding of data retrieval, vector embeddings, and combining structured data such as Snowflake tables with unstructured text.
• Strong knowledge of data privacy standards, audit trails, role-based permissions, and access controls for confidential datasets.
• Strong communication skills for presenting technical options, trade-offs, and progress to non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently in ambiguous, greenfield environments, define scope, sequence work, and drive projects to production.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with HR or People systems such as Workday or Greenhouse.

Culture & Benefits

• Welcoming, casual, supportive, and entrepreneurial work environment.
• Benefits, wellness program offerings, and company retreats.
• Opportunities to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community.
• Values emphasize camaraderie, openness, grit, integrity, and simplicity.
• Inclusive workplace with reasonable accommodations for disability, religious beliefs, and other covered reasons.