Software Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Software Engineer (AI): Building and optimizing intelligent financial systems for American family-run businesses with an accent on LLM integration, NLP, and automated bookkeeping. Focus on architecting scalable AI infrastructure, developing document parsing pipelines, and refining human-in-the-loop AI systems.

Location: Hybrid or Remote within the USA (San Francisco, Denver, New York)

Salary: $140K – $210K

Company

hirify.global is a Series A startup rebuilding financial infrastructure for independent family-run businesses to help them become more profitable and resilient.

What you will do

• Develop intelligent systems using LLMs, NLP, and heuristics to streamline bookkeeping, inbox triage, and financial workflows.
• Build and ship AI-powered features for receipt parsing, transaction categorization, and conversational AI.
• Establish early foundations for evaluation pipelines, prompt management, and feedback loops to improve LLM performance.
• Architect and scale hybrid AI + rule-based systems for automated bookkeeping and financial analysis.
• Collaborate with product and design teams to ensure AI features are reliable, intuitive, and helpful.
• Contribute to long-term AI strategy regarding automation confidence and human-in-the-loop systems.

Requirements

• Experience building and shipping ML/AI-driven features in a production environment.
• Ability to apply language models to real-world, unstructured, and complex datasets.
• Pragmatic approach to AI implementation, knowing when to use LLMs versus regular expressions or user input.
• Must be based in the US (implied by US-specific benefits and listed US cities).

Nice to have

• Experience with LLM APIs, prompt engineering, embeddings, vector search, or fine-tuning.
• Background in products involving finance, transactions, document processing, or communications tooling.
• Proficiency with TypeScript, React, and Python-based ML tooling such as LangChain, OpenAI SDK, and Pinecone.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive compensation including equity offers.
• Comprehensive health insurance and 401(k) with matching contribution.
• Flexible work hours, vacation time, and paid parental leave.
• Stipends for remote office setup, wellness, and professional development.
• A culture focused on transparency, accountability, and proactive resourcefulness.