VP of Engineering (AI)

Location: San Francisco, United States; on-site five days a week

Salary: $400,000–$500,000 annual base salary plus equity

Company

hirify.global builds AI agents for banks and credit unions, helping customers complete banking tasks and supporting frontline financial-services teams. Its products are used by more than 100 banks and credit unions.

What you will do

• Lead Product Engineering teams building voice and chat agents, banking self-service and transaction workflows, and Nexus, an AI-powered contact-center experience.
• Make consequential architecture decisions and perform hands-on development, including prototyping, implementation, testing, release, and production follow-up.
• Set priorities with the Platform Engineering leader for the shared agent runtime, knowledge and retrieval, evaluations, banking integrations, data infrastructure, and Assemble.
• Own engineering work for customer deployments at financial institutions, including launch planning, integrations, configuration, and repeatable delivery.
• Lead Security and Privacy within Engineering and establish standards for testing, AI evaluations, release readiness, observability, and incident response.
• Hire and coach engineering leaders, develop senior technical talent, set performance expectations, and measure the impact of coding agents on delivery, rework, and production quality.

Requirements

• Operate at Staff Engineer level: solve ambiguous technical problems across system boundaries, implement meaningful parts personally, and own production outcomes.
• Be able to present substantial code written and shipped recently and explain the architectural decisions behind it.
• Have built and shipped agentic or AI-native products where AI was central to the product and customer value.
• Have made significant engineering decisions, evaluated AI systems, and improved their reliability in production.
• Have taken a product from an uncertain idea to real customer use, worked directly with customers, tested assumptions, and made investment or direction decisions.
• Have led and scaled multiple engineering teams, including hiring and developing managers and technical leads who independently own outcomes.
• Be able to delegate, manage dependencies, and follow through on customer commitments.
• Use AI development tools personally and demonstrate how they improved development and delivery while ensuring result quality.

Nice to have

• Background as an engineering manager or director who deliberately returned to hands-on engineering.
• Recent Staff Engineer-level experience.
• Experience in fintech, regulated enterprise software, conversational AI, or contact-center products.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time, on-site work in San Francisco five days per week.
• Hands-on technical leadership is expected alongside organizational leadership.
• Company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k), paid parental leave, discretionary PTO, commuter and wellness benefits, and office meals.
• Access to advanced AI tools and an inclusive workplace.