TL;DR

Software Engineer, Monetization Delivery (Applied AI): Building and optimizing high-performance ads delivery platforms for %hirify_global% with an accent on real-time decision engines, ranking logic, and privacy guarantees. Focus on architecting large-scale distributed systems, incorporating applied ML for optimization, and ensuring operational excellence.

Location: This role is exclusively based in our San Francisco HQ. We offer relocation assistance to new employees.

Salary: $255,000–$405,000 + Offers Equity

Company

%hirify_global% is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.

What you will do

Architect, build, and optimize the ads delivery platform that serves ads in real time at global scale.
Design systems for correctness, safety, and continuous optimization under heavy load.
Develop decision engines, ranking logic, and delivery pipelines that require strong performance, reliability, and privacy guarantees.
Partner with Product, Design, and Research to define requirements and drive novel solutions to highly complex technical problems.
Prototype, experiment, and deploy rapid iterations to improve delivery quality, relevance, and efficiency.
Implement infrastructure and services that support ongoing measurement, optimization, and model-based improvements.

Requirements

10+ years of experience designing and scaling distributed systems with strict correctness, reliability, and latency requirements.
Experience building or contributing to delivery, ranking, recommendation, ML-inference, or real-time decisioning systems.
Comfortable working across backend, systems engineering, and applied ML.
Thrive in deeply technical 0→1 problem spaces where architecture, strategy, and implementation must be invented.
Strong intuition for system design tradeoffs and the ability to translate product goals into technical decisions.
Communicate clearly, think holistically, and reason about long-term system maintainability and sustainability.

Nice to have

Experience in ads delivery, ranking systems, marketplaces, or ML-driven optimization platforms.

Culture & Benefits

Work in a new cross-functional Monetization team operating in a greenfield environment.
Move quickly through prototyping, experimentation, and iterative deployment.
Dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.
Committed to creating AI with safety and human needs at its core.
Equal opportunity employer.
Offers equity.