Staff Engineer (AI)

Location: United States; fully remote, working Eastern Time (EST) hours

Salary: $195,000–$245,000 base salary plus equity, depending on level and experience.

Company

hirify.global is building an autonomous AI marketing platform for ecommerce brands. AI agents identify revenue opportunities, create campaigns, and run them after brand approval across email, deliverability, and personalized AI conversations.

What you will do

• Design, build, and operate reliable high-volume email delivery systems for multiple brands.
• Ship AI agents that plan, create, and run campaigns from prototype through production.
• Own systems throughout their lifecycle, including production health and reliability.
• Break ambiguous problems into small, shippable steps and use implementation to validate what to build next.
• Work with engineering colleagues, other teams, and brands to understand needs and communicate technical trade-offs clearly.
• Review code, share knowledge, and improve the engineering team's effectiveness.

Requirements

• Experience building distributed systems that handle high throughput, partial failure, retries, and recovery.
• Ability to identify where systems tend to break and build reliable solutions.
• Ability to turn large problems into clear steps and choose appropriately sized solutions.
• Ability to explain technical concepts clearly to engineers and non-engineers.
• Willingness to learn; experience with any modern technology stack is considered.
• Commitment to understanding solutions and code while using AI engineering tools, and to owning technical results.

Nice to have

• Startup experience and comfort with the pace and breadth of startup work.
• Experience in email or marketing technology, including deliverability, sending infrastructure, or campaign tooling.
• Deep ecommerce knowledge; Shopify experience is an additional plus.
• Experience developing data pipelines and using machine learning.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work with Eastern Time (EST) working hours.
• Direct collaboration with the CTO and a small, hands-on engineering team without silos.
• Work on AI, high-volume personalized email, distributed systems, and ecommerce retention problems.
• Sustainable pace with an emphasis on long-term customer value, ownership, clear trade-offs, and continuous growth.
• Compensation includes base salary and equity.