Backend Software Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Backend Software Engineer (AI): Building a career agent and jobs platform using ChatGPT to match candidates and employers based on real capabilities with an accent on search, matching, and personalization pipelines. Focus on productionizing ML models and designing high-scale retrieval systems to unlock economic opportunity.

Location: San Francisco

Salary: $293,000 – $490,000

Company

hirify.global is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.

What you will do

• Design and ship core systems for search, matching, and recommendation, including candidate-job ranking and personalization pipelines.
• Partner with research and applied ML teams to productionize models and integrate them into high-scale backend systems.
• Run experiments and iterate on ranking models and recommendation strategies to improve long-term success metrics.
• Build high-trust, scalable systems that support millions of job seekers and employers.
• Collaborate with product, design, and research teams to create human-centered AI experiences.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience building highly-available user-facing products.
• Extensive prior experience building and maintaining production machine learning systems.
• Experience working with vector databases, search indices, or other data stores for search and retrieval.
• Familiarity with ML concepts such as embeddings, ranking models, and feature pipelines.
• Strong backend and system design skills, especially for high-scale data and retrieval systems.
• Ability to own problems end-to-end in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to work at the intersection of agents, search, and personalization to directly change people's lives.
• Fast-paced environment where new ideas ship quickly and user impact is the primary focus.
• Commitment to safety and human needs at the core of AI development.
• Inclusive culture valuing diverse perspectives and experiences.