Software Development Manager (AI)

TL;DR

Software Development Manager (AI): Leading the Agentic Proxy Bidding team, building autonomous bidding systems that process billions of advertising transactions daily with an accent on predictive modeling, generative AI, and reinforcement learning. Focus on ensuring system scalability, reliability, and performance for tier-1 production services across multiple AWS regions.

Location: USA, CA, Palo Alto

Salary: 212,700.00 - 287,700.00 USD annually

Company

hirify.global is re-imagining the advertising landscape through industry leading generative AI technologies.

What you will do

• Define long term vision and product strategy for bidding systems for Sponsored Products and Sponsored Brands.
• Lead the end-to-end architecture, design, and implementation of autonomous bidding systems processing billions of advertising transactions daily.
• Drive technical decisions around predictive modeling approaches, generative AI integration, multi-agent reinforcement learning algorithms, control theory applications, and real-time optimization methods for autonomous bid adjustment.
• Ensure system scalability, reliability, and performance for tier-1 production services handling mission-critical advertising workloads across multiple AWS regions.
• Establish engineering best practices for ML operations (MLOps), including model training pipelines, A/B testing frameworks, continuous deployment, monitoring, and automated rollback mechanisms.
• Build, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of software engineers and and applied scientists working on advanced autonomous systems and agentic AI.

Requirements

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience.
• 3+ years of designing or architecting of new and existing systems experience.
• 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience.
• Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle.
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams.

Nice to have

• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy.
• Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers.

Culture & Benefits

• hirify.global offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
• Our inclusive culture empowers hirify.globalians to deliver the best results for our customers.