Software Development Engineer III (AI Engineer)

TL;DR

Software Development Engineer III (AI Engineer): Designing and delivering real-time, AI-powered fraud and abuse defenses on a global scale with an accent on building and operating cloud-native decisioning and automated remediation systems. Focus on incorporating and integrating Generative and Agentic AI into fraud detection and remediation workflows.

Location: United States - Washington - Seattle

Salary: $146,000.00 to $204,500.00 (potential to increase to $233,500.00 based on performance)

Company

hirify.global brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere.

What you will do

• Contribute to the design and implementation of low-latency risk decisioning and automated remediation.
• Build, deploy, and operate ML-powered capabilities in production, partnering with Data Science/ML Scientists.
• Incorporate and integrate Generative and Agentic AI into fraud detection and remediation workflows.
• Help simplify and modernize the platform (streaming/data pipelines, microservices, CI/CD, configuration-driven controls).
• Participate in evaluating vendors and in-house solutions for performance, cost, and risk posture.
• Implement and maintain SLOs, observability, and safety/rollback mechanisms for the services you own.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent related professional experience.
• 5+ years of software engineering, including experience developing, deploying and operating ML/AI driven solutions in production.
• Demonstrable experience building, monitoring and debugging LLM and multi-agent applications, with frameworks and platforms such as LangChain, LangGraph, Langfuse, or equivalent.
• RAG-based architecture experience, including data orchestration frameworks such as LlamaIndex, vector databases such as Pinecone, or equivalent.
• Exposure to various LLM providers such as OpenAI, Gemini, and Anthropic.
• Familiarity with distributed cloud-native engineering at scale (AWS, GCP, or Azure), microservices, API-driven design, SQL/NoSQL databases and data streaming/processing (Kafka, Flink, Spark).

Nice to have

• Proven experience building and operating either fraud and risk systems in production, or other similarly ML/AI heavy systems.
• Graph/sequence modeling or entity resolution at scale; device and behavioral signals.
• Track record reducing manual operations via automation and platform simplification.
• Experience with cloud cost/performance tuning and capacity planning.
• Marketplace, travel, or e-commerce experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a flexible work model (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources.
• Wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership.
• Named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability:IN, and others.
• Committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce.