Founding Forward Deployed Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer (AI): Partnering directly with customers to architect transformational AI solutions that address their most critical business challenges with an accent on building production AI applications using custom agents, workflows, connectors, and integrations. Focus on guiding customers through the end-to-end deployment of hirify.global in complex enterprise environments, ensuring smooth implementation and rapid time to value.

Location: This role is hybrid (3-4 days a week in one of our SF Bay Area offices)

Salary: $160,000-$270,000 annually

Company

hirify.global is the Work AI platform that helps everyone work smarter with AI by redefining how enterprises find, use, and act on knowledge.

What you will do

• Build production AI applications using hirify.global's platform including custom agents, workflows, connectors, and integrations that solve real business problems.
• Develop deep customer relationships and manage executive stakeholder engagement throughout the lifecycle of your engagements.
• Guide customers through the end-to-end deployment of hirify.global in complex enterprise environments, ensuring smooth implementation and rapid time to value.
• Shape the product roadmap by sharing field learnings about platform strengths and opportunities for development.
• Build lasting partnerships with customers while identifying new ways to deploy AI throughout your engagements.

Requirements

• 4+ years in technical, client-facing roles such as Forward Deployed Engineer, Software Engineer or Solutions Architect.
• Production LLM experience including prompt engineering, agent development, evaluation frameworks, and deployment at scale.
• Strong full-stack programming skills and experience building custom integrations in hybrid or SaaS environments, with a track record of shipping production software.
• Cloud platform experience with GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Enterprise systems knowledge including networking, security frameworks, and common business application stacks.
• Strong communication skills with both technical teams and business stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Prior experience in customer‑facing, consultative roles (solutions, support, product management) and comfort presenting to senior leaders.
• Exposure to evaluating AI outcomes (e.g., defining success criteria, using sample tasks, reviewing results) and iterating for quality, latency, and cost.
• Ability to analyze usage signals and customer feedback to inform roadmap and drive adoption.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including competitive compensation, Medical, Vision, and Dental coverage, generous time-off policy, and the opportunity to contribute to your 401k plan to support your long-term goals.
• Home office improvement stipend, as well as an annual education and wellness stipends to support your growth and wellbeing.
• Vibrant company culture through regular events.
• Healthy lunches daily.