Applied AI Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Applied AI Engineer (AI): Design, build, and ship production-grade AI agents and workflows for critical industries like healthcare, manufacturing, and energy with an accent on high-impact business value and agentic systems. Focus on shaping AI strategy, identifying use cases, rapid deployment, and advancing core AI toolkit.

New York City

Compensation $150K – $300K • Offers Equity

Company

hirify.global transforms critical institutions with applied AI through forward-deployed engineering, product, research expertise, and the Mosaic toolkit for agentic workflows, in partnership with General Catalyst, Anthropic, McKinsey, and AWS.

What you will do

• Shape the AI vision by collaborating with customer executives, operators, and technical teams to define long-term AI strategy and transformation roadmap.
• Identify high-leverage use cases by working backwards from vision to prioritize AI applications delivering measurable business value.
• Ship real products by rapidly building and deploying production-grade AI solutions with real users and data.
• Advance core product by encoding customer lessons into Mosaic, contributing new features, patterns, and abstractions.

Requirements

• AI-nativeness: Excited about transforming businesses with frontier AI in critical institutions.
• Generative and collaborative: Enjoy brainstorming "what if" ideas with teammates and partners.
• Extreme ownership: Proactively identify and execute next steps without waiting for direction.
• Execution excellence and speed: Build and ship code quickly in messy environments, balancing speed and quality.
• Customer-obsession: Understand pain points and iterate with end users for quick wins.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with LLM tooling (LangGraph, Mastra, Agents SDK, etc).
• Built and deployed production LLM-powered systems (tool use, RAG pipelines, multi-step agents, human-in-the-loop).
• Strong technical foundations in Python/TypeScript, cloud deployment (AWS/GCP/Azure), and DevOps tooling.
• Prior startup or founding engineer experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Dream bigger: Tackle ambitious problems with optimism, responsibility, and belief in success.
• Heart in the game: Care deeply about impactful work, fixing issues proactively, and honoring customer trust.
• Win for the customer: Focus on outcomes over outputs, with delivery as the core strategy.
• Make the call: Empower high-agency decisions with high-bandwidth communication, no silos.
• Intensity with kindness: Excel in execution, candor, prioritization, and urgency while building trust through kindness.