Principal Software Engineer, AI & Matching (AI)

TL;DR

Principal Software Engineer, AI & Matching (AI): Defining and building the next generation of systems that make hirify.global smarter, more adaptive, and more helpful for its members with an accent on designing and scaling core matching, recommendation, retrieval, ranking, and agentic AI systems. Focus on turning advances in AI into production systems that are reliable, low-latency, and deeply aligned with user value.

Location: Hybrid (US TX Austin)

Salary: $280,000 - $320,000 a year

Company

hirify.global Inc. is the parent company of hirify.global Date, BFF, and Badoo, enabling people to build healthy and equitable relationships through Kind Connections.

What you will do

• Lead the architecture and technical direction for matching and AI agent systems that power personalization, discovery, recommendations, and user assistance across hirify.global.
• Design and build high-scale, low-latency production services for retrieval, ranking, recommendations, decisioning, and agent orchestration.
• Drive the evolution of hirify.global’s matching architecture, including how models, business logic, real-time signals, and product experiences work together in production.
• Partner closely with ML engineers and applied scientists to productionize models for training, online inference, evaluation, and continuous improvement.
• Set engineering standards for system design, reliability, experimentation, observability, and responsible AI in user-facing intelligent systems.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, Trust & Safety, Data Science, and Infrastructure to deliver end-to-end user experiences from concept to production.

Requirements

• Deep expertise as a software engineer building large-scale distributed systems, with significant experience in consumer-facing or marketplace products.
• Strong track record designing and operating production recommendation, matching, search, ranking, personalization, or decisioning systems.
• Experience building systems that integrate machine learning models into real-time product experiences, including online serving, experimentation, and monitoring.
• Strong understanding of the tradeoffs between traditional software, ML systems, and LLM/agent-based architectures, and when each is the right tool.
• Experience building or scaling AI-native product capabilities, such as copilots, assistants, tool-using agents, or conversational/intelligent workflows.
• Typically requires 12+ years of experience.

Culture & Benefits

• hirify.global values such as Courage and Respect, collaborate effectively across disciplines, take ownership of outcomes, and see work through from insight to measurable impact with an agile mindset.
• AI is important to us. We’re excited by people who are curious and experimental, and who think thoughtfully about how AI can amplify their impact and outcomes.
• hirify.global Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and we strongly encourage people of all ages, colour, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and non-binary people, veterans, parents, people with disabilities, and neurodivergent people to apply.