Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (AI): Turning the legal industry’s most complex challenges into working software with an accent on designing, prototyping, and productionizing custom AI workflows. Focus on building and maintaining integrations that slot into complex client environments using hirify.global APIs and the broader modern stack.

Location: Occasional travel to client sites to foster strong relationships and provide hands-on support.

Salary: $164,100 to $193,000 to $221,900 USD.

Company

hirify.global is the global leader in legal AI technology, empowering legal professionals and law firms of every size to work smarter, faster, and more securely.

What you will do

• Embed with enterprise clients to map out workflows, define clear success metrics, and de-risk constraints before writing a line of code.
• Design, prototype, and productionize custom AI workflows.
• Build and maintain integrations that slot into complex client environments using hirify.global APIs and the broader modern stack.
• Work directly with client technical teams to troubleshoot, debug, and optimize deployments in real-time.
• Translate experimental R&D into stable, production-grade code.
• Surface recurring patterns from the field that sharpen our product roadmap and inform how we build.

Requirements

• Strong full-stack fundamentals and deep comfort with RESTful APIs and systems integrations.
• Demonstrated ability to design, build and deploy production applications.
• Hands-on experience building LLM-powered applications — retrieval, agents, structured outputs, prompt safety — and taking them through to production.
• Experience working directly with clients or customers: scoping ambiguous problems, communicating trade-offs, and iterating based on real-world feedback.
• A genuine curiosity about AI and how it applies to the legal industry, you're not just using AI tools, you're thinking about how they change what's possible.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive, equitable salary with top-tier health benefits, dental, and vision insurance.
• Hybrid work environment, with expectation for local hirify.globalns (Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Dublin and Sydney) to be in office min. twice per week.
• Flexible time off policy, with an encouraged 20 days off per year.
• $2000 annual counseling benefit.
• RRSP matching and RESP contribution.
• hirify.globalversary recognition program with special acknowledgement at 3, 5, 7, and 10 years.