Founding Backend Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Founding Backend Engineer (AI): Building an AI associate for financial firms with an accent on enterprise-scale data retrieval, autonomous agents, and knowledge graphs. Focus on designing novel algorithms to power search and retrieval over complex structured and unstructured firm data.

Location: Must be based in San Francisco and work on-site 4 days per week

Salary: $175,000 – $300,000

Company

hirify.global is an AI startup backed by Menlo and Khosla Ventures, building an enterprise search and agent platform for private equity, hedge funds, and banks.

What you will do

• Develop and scale GenAI applications to deliver associate-level capabilities.
• Design and build novel knowledge graph algorithms for search and retrieval.
• Create reliable AI-native systems for processing structured and unstructured financial data.
• Collaborate directly with top AI labs and elite financial institutions.
• Shape the product vision and engineering culture as a founding team member.

Requirements

• 3–8 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Must be able to work on-site in San Francisco 4 days per week.
• Track record of extraordinary technical ability.
• Ability to thrive in a high-density, early-stage startup environment.

Nice to have

• Practical experience with LLMs and search/retrieval systems.
• Previous background or experience working within the financial services industry.

Culture & Benefits

• Meaningful ownership with 0.5%+ equity in an early-stage startup.
• Opportunity to solve high-complexity challenges at the frontier of GenAI.
• High talent density environment with leadership experienced at top-tier tech and financial firms.