Senior AI Software Architect (Runtime)

TL;DR

Senior AI Software Architect (Runtime): Architecting and leading development of firmware, runtime, and performance infrastructure for hirify.global's neuromorphic AI execution stack targeting edge and robotic systems with an accent on execution control, scheduling, data movement, and integration with ecosystems like ROS2. Focus on defining technical vision, optimizing performance-critical components, delivering profiling/tracing frameworks, and collaborating across hardware/compiler/application teams to enable efficient deployment.

Location: Hybrid work model: split time between on-site at assigned hirify.global sites (Primary: US, Oregon, Hillsboro; Additional: US, California, Santa Clara; US, Texas, Austin) and off-site

Salary: $195,200–361,200 USD (annual, varies by location and experience)

Company

hirify.global's Neuromorphic Computing Lab in the CTO Office, commercializing brain-inspired, event-driven neuromorphic AI technology for edge and robotics.

What you will do

• Define technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for neuromorphic runtime software stack with hands-on design and implementation.
• Develop and optimize firmware/runtime components for execution control, scheduling, data movement, memory management, and device interfaces.
• Build performance infrastructure including profiling, tracing, debugging, benchmarking, and regression frameworks.
• Integrate runtime into robotics/edge ecosystems for deployment and developer adoption.
• Collaborate with hardware, compiler, systems, application teams, customers, and partners to meet platform/workload requirements.
• Provide technical leadership, establish engineering practices, mentor engineers, and scale the team.

Requirements

• Hybrid work: must split time on-site at US hirify.global locations (Hillsboro OR primary)
• BSc/MSc/PhD in CS, EE/CE, Physics, Math or related.
• 5+ years developing firmware/runtime/performance/low-level systems software for AI/accelerators (CUDA, LLVM, oneAPI, SYCL, ONNX, IREE, OpenVINO, TVM).
• 5+ years leading software architecture for AI/runtime/accelerator systems.
• 8+ years production-grade C/C++/Python, systems/performance code, with benchmarking, testing, CI/CD.
• 5+ years AI/deep learning/optimization workloads (PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow).

Nice to have

• Managing/mentoring engineers, leading cross-functional teams.
• Robotics/edge/real-time systems (ROS2).
• HW/SW co-design, hardware simulators, software bring-up.
• Parallel computing, spatial/unconventional AI accelerators.
• Embedded/real-time Linux, device drivers, edge deployment.
• Open-source contributions.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive pay, stock bonuses, health, retirement, vacation benefits.
• Hybrid work model with on-site/off-site flexibility (subject to change).
• Part of innovative CTO incubation team pioneering neuromorphic tech.
• Collaboration in global ecosystem with research groups and partners.
• Opportunities in vertically integrated effort from research to productization.