Education Platform Engineering Lead (AI)

TL;DR

Education Platform Engineering Lead (AI): Building the technical foundation for hirify.global's customer and enterprise education platform, focusing on AI-driven content delivery, adaptive assessments, and credentialing systems. Focus on creating AI-augmented pipelines and platform capabilities that enable a small team of educators to operate with significant reach and responsiveness.

Location: Hybrid, must be in one of hirify.global's offices at least 25% of the time.

Salary: $300,000 - $405,000 USD

Company

hirify.global is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

What you will do

• Architect and own hirify.global’s enterprise ready education platform and infrastructure designed for scale, AI-forward features, and reliability.
• Build AI-augmented pipelines for content generation, real-time adaptation, assessment delivery, and quality assurance.
• Design platform capabilities that enable new kinds of empowering learning experiences.
• Interface with hirify.global's security, infrastructure, and data teams to ensure education systems meet organizational standards and integrate cleanly with existing architecture.
• Build platform abstractions that let non-engineers configure, extend, and experiment with educational experiences without engineering bottlenecks.
• Make product-level decisions about how the platform works, shaping what the learning experience is.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with demonstrated ability to take a platform from zero to production at scale.
• Genuine passion for education and opinions about what educational technology should look like in an AI-native world.
• Full-stack engineering skills with particular strength in backend systems: databases, APIs, authentication, reliability, and infrastructure.
• Experience building and operating platforms that serve many concurrent users reliably.
• Comfort with ambiguity and ownership, translating pedagogical intent into technical architecture.
• Experience interfacing with security and infrastructure teams to meet organizational requirements while maintaining development velocity.
• A working practice of using AI tools in your own engineering workflows.

Nice to have

• Experience building or significantly contributing to learning platforms, credentialing systems, or educational technology products.
• Background in or exposure to learning science, instructional design, or educational research.
• Experience with SSO/identity (SAML, OAuth), badging standards (Open Badges), or LTI integrations.
• Familiarity with building systems that incorporate LLM capabilities as core infrastructure.
• Prior work at a high-growth company where you built platform infrastructure that other teams depended on.
• Experience designing systems that non-technical users configure and operate.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits.
• Optional equity donation matching.
• Generous vacation and parental leave.
• Flexible working hours.
• A lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.