Software Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Research Platform Engineer: Designing and hardening the codebase, tools, and distributed services to enable scientists to train and ship frontier-scale models with an accent on writing clean, reliable code that scales. Focus on building and maintaining shared dev-tools, evaluation & data pipelines, training frameworks, cluster tooling and CI/CD.

Location: Paris / London (hybrid) or remote EU/UK with one hub day per month.

Company

hirify.global democratizes AI through high-performance, optimized, open-source and cutting-edge models, products and solutions.

What you will do

• Accelerate researchers by owning the complex parts of large-scale pipelines and delivering robust internal tooling.
• Interface research with product by exposing clean APIs, automating model pushes, and surfacing live metrics.
• Write efficient, well-tested Python and systems code; enforce code review, CI, and observability.
• Design and optimise distributed services (Kubernetes / SLURM, thousands-of-GPU jobs).
• Prototype utilities (CLI, dashboards) and carry them through to stable, shared libraries.

Requirements

• Master’s in Computer Science (or equivalent experience).
• 4 + years building and operating large-scale or distributed systems.
• Strong software-design instincts: modular code, tests, CI/CD, observability.
• Fluency in Python plus one systems language (C++, Rust, Go or Java).
• Hands-on with container orchestration and schedulers (Kubernetes / K8s, SLURM, or similar).
• Comfortable profiling performance, optimising I/O, and automating workflows.

Nice to have

• Exposure to ML workloads or data-processing pipelines.
• Experience with GPU clusters or CUDA.
• Open-source contributions or widely used internal tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive cash salary and equity.
• Generous parental leave policy.
• Visa sponsorship.
• Full health insurance for you and your family.
• Monthly contribution to a Gympass subscription/ reimbursement for gym membership.
• Monthly contribution to a mobility pass/reimburse office parking charges, or £90 per month for public transport.