Staff Software Engineer, ML Search (AI)

TL;DR

Staff Software Engineer (AI, ML Search): Building and optimizing high-scale backend and pipeline systems to integrate ML models into search experiences for millions of users with an accent on data flows, ranking and retrieval services, and low-latency model-serving APIs. Focus on creating robust infrastructure, ensuring operational excellence, and enabling fast iteration for discovery across hirify.global's platform.

Location: Completely remote from the United States

Salary: $23,000 - $322,000 USD

Company

hirify.global is a community of communities built on shared interests, passion, and trust, providing an open and authentic platform for conversation.

What you will do

• Own pipelines and DAGs for moving data, features, embeddings, and models through the ML lifecycle.
• Design and maintain ranking and retrieval services that run models in real-time.
• Build scalable model-serving APIs, ensuring reliability, efficiency, and performance.
• Create reusable infrastructure for training, deploying, and iterating on models.
• Ensure pipelines and systems support high scale, low latency, and operational excellence.
• Enable modeling with improved systems, features, and deployment pathways.

Requirements

• 8+ years of industry experience with a focus on search and recommendation systems.
• 6+ years of experience in designing, building, and iterating large-scale search relevance and infrastructure systems.
• Proficient in object-oriented programming (Python, Golang).
• Experience in API design and integration with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift or gRPC.
• Experience of developing applications using large-scale data stack (Kubeflow, Airflow, BigQuery, Kafka, Kubernetes, Redis).
• Knowledge and experience working with search systems (e.g., Lucene, Solr, ElasticSearch, Opensearch).

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and 401k Matching.
• Workspace benefits for home office.
• Personal & Professional development funds.
• Family Planning Support.
• Flexible Vacation & hirify.global Global Wellness Days.
• 4+ months paid Parental Leave and Paid Volunteer time off.