Staff AI Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Staff AI Engineer (AI): Leading the evolution of hirify.global's MCP Services interface to enable external and internal AI agents to interact with hirify.global data with an accent on designing and implementing agentic tool surfaces and building advanced evaluation pipelines. Focus on driving forward next-generation agent-tool interaction models in a fast-evolving and ambiguous applied AI space.

Location: Hybrid in Lisbon, Portugal

Company

hirify.global is a global SaaS business focused on breaking down silos and solving complexity in the cloud age through digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring.

What you will do

• Lead efforts to improve hirify.global’s public-facing MCP server, enabling intelligent agents to discover and interact with services.
• Design and implement agentic tool surfaces tailored for evaluation and production use across a wide variety of AI agents.
• Build and maintain advanced evaluation pipelines for measuring agent performance on hirify.global workflows.
• Investigate and resolve failure cases by analyzing tool output, improving query parsing, and enhancing agent feedback mechanisms.
• Collaborate across Applied AI and internal teams to align on shared standards for tool integration and data access.

Requirements

• Experience as a Staff-level engineer with a strong background in applied AI, agentic programming, and/or LLM-powered automation pipelines.
• Familiarity with LLM orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI), and Agent orchestration and tool-use systems.
• Comfortable working in high ambiguity and fast-changing environments, able to define and prioritize direction autonomously.
• Skilled in building evaluation frameworks for LLM agents or AI systems, including metrics design and data instrumentation.
• Strong systems thinking, able to reason across multiple agents, tools, and user scenarios.

Nice to have

• Experience working with the MCP standard or contributing to agent-compatible tooling surfaces.
• Familiarity with building and evaluating ReAct agentic loops.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid workplace to ensure work-life harmony.
• Generous and competitive benefits package including new hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan.
• Continuous career development and pathing opportunities.
• Employee-focused best-in-class onboarding with internal mentor and cross-departmental buddy program.
• Friendly and inclusive workplace culture.