Member Of Technical Staff – Software Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Member of Technical Staff – Software Engineer (AI): Building and optimizing infrastructure that powers training, evaluation, and data platforms for foundational AI models with an accent on scalable training, cluster orchestration, and secure deployments. Focus on architecting distributed systems on Azure, implementing end-to-end observability, and enhancing developer experience for AI research.

Location: New York, United States

Salary: USD $158,400–$304,200 per year (New York City metropolitan area)

Company

hirify.global's Superintelligence Team (MAIST) is a startup-like team within hirify.global, dedicated to advancing AI towards Humanist Superintelligence by creating ultra-capable, controllable, and safety-aligned systems.

What you will do

• Design and build core platform services for scalable training, evaluation, cluster orchestration, and data/compute pipelines.
• Standardize containerized workflows, CI/CD, and advocate for best practices in security and cost efficiency.
• Implement end-to-end observability, monitoring, and automated alerts for model training and platform health using Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
• Architect and operate services on Azure, managing infrastructure-as-code with Terraform/Helm.
• Enhance developer experience by creating tools, CLIs, and portals for job submission and experiment management.
• Enforce security and compliance policies for data access, container hardening, and supply-chain integrity.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field AND 4+ years of technical engineering experience (C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python) OR equivalent experience.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals in distributed systems, networking, and storage.
• Experience building systems for AI research teams, with an understanding of training and evaluating large language models (LLMs).
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and the Linux container ecosystem for platform reliability and scalability.
• Proficiency in orchestrating data/compute pipelines (Airflow, Argo, Kafka, Event Hubs) and managing object storage (Azure Blob/S3-compatible).
• Experience managing GPU cluster operations, high-performance computing (HPC), and implementing container security practices.

Culture & Benefits

• Be part of a startup-like team within hirify.global, pushing the boundaries of AI towards Humanist Superintelligence.
• Contribute to creating AI that amplifies human potential, remaining controllable, safety-aligned, and anchored to human values.
• Collaborate with product teams to deploy models to billions of users, creating immense positive impact.
• Work in a culture of inclusion built on values of respect, integrity, and accountability.