AI Native Software Engineering Specialst (AI)

Location: Hybrid in Columbus, Ohio, with 3 days per week in the office. Qualified applicants may also be considered in Tampa, Atlanta, Chesterbrook, Dallas, or Houston, United States. Travel may be required at 25%–75% depending on business and client needs.

Hourly salary ranges vary by state; the Ohio range is $28.41–$90.43 per hour, with other listed US state ranges from $26.15 to $113.03 per hour.

Company

hirify.global is a global professional services company delivering technology, cloud, data, AI, and industry solutions for businesses, governments, and other organizations.

What you will do

• Partner with client stakeholders to define use cases, lead design workshops and proofs of concept, and deploy robust agentic workflows.
• Design and build enterprise-ready AI agents with retrieval, orchestration, policy-based routing, tool invocation, evaluation harnesses, and lifecycle observability.
• Develop AI platform abstraction layers, shared libraries, SDKs, and reusable patterns across providers such as OpenAI, Claude, and Vertex AI.
• Build and operate cloud-native systems using Kubernetes, Docker, microservices, serverless, event-driven architectures, CI/CD, and observability tools.
• Tailor agentic applications to finance, healthcare, retail, and other industry workflows while communicating technical trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Define metrics and evaluation plans for accuracy, latency, safety, and cost effectiveness, then improve systems based on data and feedback.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of engineering experience with cloud-native systems, including APIs, microservices, containerization, or serverless architectures.
• At least 1 year of hands-on experience designing and deploying agentic solutions involving agents, orchestration, context engineering, RAG, or workflows in production or near-production environments.
• At least 1 year of experience with modern AI platforms such as OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, or open-source models, including multi-provider abstraction layers or pipelines.
• At least 3 years of strong Python, Java, or equivalent experience building 12-factor applications, plus Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Helm.
• At least 3 years of client-facing communication and collaboration experience, including technical discussions, workshops, or delivery sessions in ambiguous environments.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or an equivalent field, or at least 12 years of equivalent work experience. An associate degree requires at least 6 years of work experience.
• Applicants must have US work authorization that does not now or in the future require visa sponsorship.

Nice to have

• AI certifications or experience with agentic tooling and frameworks.
• Experience as an Agentic or AI Engineer in an enterprise environment.
• Multi-agent orchestration experience with LangGraph, CrewAI, Claude SDK, OpenAI SDK, or similar tools.
• A GitHub repository containing created agents or plugins.
• Experience with enterprise-grade compound AI architectures, orchestration frameworks, agent registries, or stream-based architectures.
• Understanding of AI-native engineering, including performance, modularity, and efficiency optimization.
• Experience delivering agentic workflows across multiple industries and driving execution across multiple workstreams.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in collaborative Advanced Technology Centers serving clients across industries and geographies.
• Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off.
• Contribute to internal AI-native and agentic engineering communities through reusable patterns, documentation, and knowledge sharing.
• hirify.global supports an inclusive workplace and provides reasonable accommodations for disabilities and religious observances.