Software Engineer - Cross-functional Systems (AI)

TL;DR

Software Engineer - Cross-functional Systems (AI): Building and optimizing the software foundations that connect products, data, and internal workflows with an accent on architectural design, developer velocity, and bringing ambitious prototypes to production. Focus on defining architecture, making build-vs-buy decisions, and ensuring robust, scalable systems end-to-end.

Location: Onsite in San Francisco, USA. Work authorization is required for US-based candidates.

Salary: $185,000–$325,000 + 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

• Build and own core software components, from prototype through production.
• Drive technical design, implementation, deployment, and launch of key systems and services.
• Develop infrastructure and tooling supporting internal development workflows (data pipelines, evaluation, experiment tooling).
• Integrate software across systems, ensuring reliability, performance, and observability.
• Establish pragmatic engineering standards (testing, CI/CD, release processes, operational playbooks).
• Troubleshoot complex end-to-end issues across system boundaries.

Requirements

• Must be able to work onsite in San Francisco, USA.
• Strong software engineering experience building and shipping production systems.
• Proficiency in at least one systems/product language (e.g., Python, C++, Rust, Go) and comfort learning new stacks.
• Experience designing APIs/services and working with distributed systems, performance, or reliability concerns.
• Track record of owning projects end-to-end: design → implementation → deployment → operations.
• Extreme agency and a founder mentality for turning ambiguity into concrete plans.
• Strong technical foundation to make good architectural decisions under real constraints.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a small, fast-moving team operating like a startup with high ownership and tight feedback loops.
• Emphasis on shipping real systems that work end-to-end.
• Close collaboration across research, product, and engineering.
• Committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.
• Equal opportunity employer, with US-based candidate protections and benefits (e.g., 401(k) implied).