TL;DR

Staff Engineer (AI & ML): Automating mortgage underwriting by tackling discrete verification, compliance, and validation steps. Focus on picking the right tool for each problem and building production systems that work in a regulated environment.

Location: Palo Alto, CA

Company

%hirify_global% is building an API-first, programmatic infrastructure that fully automates credit, compliance, capital, and operations in the mortgage industry.

What you will do

Be a founding member of the AI team, working directly with the CTO.
Automate mortgage underwriting by taking complex, open-ended problems and figuring out solutions using LLMs, rules engines, or vendor APIs.
Define the approach, architect the solution, write code, and ship it to production.
Determine how to split up the work and set technical direction as the team grows.
Build new automation services that integrate with the existing mortgage engine codebase.

Requirements

Strong systems engineering foundation: experience building large-scale production systems at high-caliber technology companies.
Recent AI/ML product experience: worked on a product that uses LLMs or ML in production in the past 1-2 years.
Technical judgment across problem spaces: ability to evaluate build vs. buy decisions and vet third-party tools.
Comfort with regulated domains, ideally in fintech or healthtech.
Hands-on execution: ability to build systems independently, writing approximately 50% of the code.

Culture & Benefits

Culture of vigorous discussion and debate on technical decisions.
Opportunity to challenge yourself to deliver exceptional code and improve existing systems.
Environment where you can act on your ideas to improve the code, product, and infrastructure.
Stock options to own a piece of the company.
Health insurance, 401K, and dental benefits.

Staff Engineer: AI & ML