Principal AI Engineer (AI Creator)

TL;DR

Principal AI Engineer (AI Creator): Building an AI Creator that turns learning into action, empowering users to instantly build, experiment, and solve real-world problems with an accent on prompt architectures, agentic workflows, and real-time adaptive behaviors. Focus on prototyping novel model interactions, leveraging emerging research and capabilities to advance the tutor’s intelligence.

Location: Belgium; Dubai; Portugal; United Kingdom; United States

Company

hirify.global's mission is to empower everyone with the data and AI skills essential for 21st-century success.

What you will do

• Build and evolve the core AI tutoring system, including prompt architectures, agentic workflows, and real-time adaptive behaviors.
• Run rigorous experimentation and evaluation, developing custom metrics and frameworks to measure learning effectiveness and improve model reliability.
• Design and implement scalable, maintainable software, integrating AI capabilities with platform systems, content pipelines, and user experience components.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with educators, content creators, and product teams to translate pedagogical goals into technical solutions.
• Prototype and productionize novel model interactions, leveraging emerging research and capabilities to advance the tutor’s intelligence.
• Share knowledge and elevate teammates, contributing to a culture of clarity, simplicity, and continuous learning.

Requirements

• 1+ years building complex LLM-based systems, with strong prompt engineering intuition and experience designing agentic workflows.
• Ability to design meaningful evaluation methods, including custom metrics and frameworks when off-the-shelf options fall short.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, architectural thinking, and fluency in Python; comfortable working with production infrastructure, cloud environments, and CI/CD.
• Actively follows AI research and emerging capabilities, applying new ideas creatively to real problems.
• Strong empathy for learners and content creators; able to translate pedagogical goals into system behavior and product decisions.
• Ability to reason holistically across AI behavior, content structure, platform features, and user experience.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with learning science or a desire to develop expertise.

Culture & Benefits

• Face new technical challenges daily, keeping your work engaging and rewarding.
• Competitive salary with attractive benefits.
• Benefit from flexible working hours.
• Access a yearly learning budget for conferences & training to support your professional growth.
• Participate in international company retreats, fostering a global team spirit.
• Yearly refreshment of your IT Equipment budget for your home working setup.