Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering (AI)

TL;DR

Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering (AI): Leading a team to deploy frontier AI models into production systems for customers, with an accent on technical and business value outcomes and informing product/research roadmaps. Focus on driving end-to-end delivery, codifying best practices, and scaling field teams.

Location: This role is based in San Francisco. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. This role also will require travel up to 25%.

Salary: $302K – $335K + 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

• Lead and grow a team of FDE delivering production systems with frontier models.
• Own end-to-end delivery outcomes through clarity, speed, tight coordination, and technical quality.
• Codify what works into tools, playbooks, and roadmap inputs that create leverage.
• Notice early indicators and raise them with urgency.
• Use judgement to distinguish what requires action and what does not.
• Set a high bar for FDE performance and support each person’s growth.

Requirements

• 8+ years of engineering or technical delivery experience, including 2+ years managing high-performing FDE or customer-facing engineers.
• Have led high-pressure technical projects from prototype to production.
• Write and review production-grade code across frontend and backend using Javascript or Python.
• Simplify complex work and make fast, sound decisions under pressure.
• Elevate team performance through clarity, not process.
• Operate with urgency in ambiguous or evolving environments.

Culture & Benefits

• hirify.global is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.
• Committed to safely deploying AI systems through products.
• An equal opportunity employer, committed to diversity and inclusion.
• Committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.