Staff Engineer, R&D Lead (AI)

TL;DR

Staff Engineer, R&D Lead (AI): Leading forward-looking technical discovery and agentic workflow research with an accent on AI Governance and Risk Intelligence domains. Focus on defining the technical bedrock of a new category through strategic prototyping and landscape intelligence.

Location: Hybrid in Sydney

Company

hirify.global provides an agile learning platform that delivers a secure coding solution for developers to learn and apply software security principles.

What you will do

• Lead six-week R&D cycles to produce prototypes and recommendations for known hard problems.
• Partner with the Content Team to convert security domain expertise into agent-consumable formats.
• Research and define patterns for governing autonomous agents that write, test, and deploy code.
• Track academic research on AI safety, secure code generation, and emerging IDE paradigms.
• Publish regular reports covering competitive moves and technology trends.
• Represent the company at major conferences and contribute to industry credibility by publishing benchmarks and research.

Requirements

• Staff-level engineer with 8+ years of experience solving architectural problems.
• Strong foundation in computer science with the ability to prototype rapidly in tech stacks like Go, Java, Node.js, TypeScript, and React.
• Highly conversant in agent frameworks, the evolving MCP ecosystem, and the current state of LLM research.
• Possess writing skills to translate complex technical findings into actionable strategic intelligence.
• Demonstrate a "safe pair of hands" even when operating in highly experimental, cloud-native (Kubernetes/IaC) environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Unlimited Paid-time-off.
• Remote-first culture, with offices in Sydney for hybrid work.
• Paid Parental Leave.
• Employee Share Option Plan.
• Volunteer Leave and Employee Assistance Programs.
• Home Office Reimbursement.