Release Engineer, Consumer Devices (AI)

TL;DR

Release Engineer, Consumer Devices (AI): Building and maintaining systems that power software delivery for consumer devices, bootloaders, firmware, operating systems, and cloud services with an accent on CI/CD pipelines, artifact management, and release automation. Focus on designing and operating release infrastructure, ensuring reproducible, rigorously validated, and safely scaled software releases, and integrating with hardware.

Location: This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of four days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

Salary: $293,000–$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

• Design and operate CI/CD pipelines for multi-component builds (bootloader, firmware, OS images, backend, companion apps) using hermetic toolchains.
• Define versioning and branching strategies; automate promotions, changelogs, and artifact retention.
• Integrate unit, integration, and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test results; quarantine flaky tests, auto-bisect failures, and block unsafe promotions.
• Build A/B OTA update flows with verity and health checks; run staged rollouts and canaries; implement safe rollback and roll-forward strategies.
• Implement code signing for binaries and firmware, generate SBOMs, run vulnerability scanning, and attach build attestations and provenance.
• Manage dashboards and alerts for build health, promotion latency, failure rates, and fleet update telemetry.

Requirements

• Experience building and operating build and release systems for consumer devices, robotics, mobile, or embedded products.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation languages such as Python or Bash.
• Strong Linux user-space fundamentals.
• Experience with GitHub Actions or Buildkite, artifact registries, and reproducible toolchains.
• Experience delivering secure OTA or image updates with staged rollouts at scale.
• Familiarity with key management and supply-chain hardening.
• Work location: San Francisco, CA, with a hybrid model of four days in the office per week.
• Relocation assistance is offered to new employees.

Culture & Benefits

• Committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.
• Equal opportunity employer, committed to diversity and inclusion.
• Focus on safe deployment of general-purpose artificial intelligence for all humanity.
• Offers equity in addition to salary.