Applied AI Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Applied AI Engineer (AI): Driving AI transformation across the business by identifying automation opportunities and building AI-powered solutions with an accent on reducing toil and accelerating workflows. Focus on designing scalable technical solutions, enabling AI adoption, and continuously improving productivity across the organization.

Location: Hybrid work environment, employees are expected to work Tuesdays through Thursdays from our HQ in Union Square, Manhattan.

Salary: $150,000 to $180,000

Company

hirify.global helps solve the identity risk problem for companies that offer financial products by enabling them to outpace fraud and confidently serve more people around the world.

What you will do

• Identify high-impact automation and AI opportunities across the business, prioritized against strategic goals.
• Design, build, and deploy AI-powered solutions — from lightweight automations to more sophisticated LLM-based workflows.
• Partner with teams across hirify.global to understand their pain points and translate them into scalable technical solutions.
• Champion and enable AI adoption across the organization — running enablement sessions, building internal tooling, and helping teams become more self-sufficient.
• Establish best practices, tooling standards, and frameworks for how hirify.global builds and evaluates AI solutions.
• Operate the internal stack like a product, running experiments, creating feedback loops, and continuously improving productivity across the whole organization.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience building with LLMs and AI APIs (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) in production environments.
• Strong engineering fundamentals — comfortable writing clean, maintainable code in Python or similar.
• Experience with workflow automation tools (e.g. Zapier, Make, n8n, or custom-built pipelines).
• A business-minded approach: you think about ROI and impact, not just technical elegance.
• Excellent communication skills — you can explain complex AI concepts to non-technical stakeholders and bring people along on the journey.
• Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward shipping.

Nice to have

• Experience in an ops, revenue operations, or business systems role.
• Familiarity with data tooling (SQL, dbt, etc.).
• Background in a fast-growing startup environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Unlimited PTO and flexible work policy.
• Employee stock options.
• Medical, dental, vision plans with HSA (monthly employer contribution) and FSA options.
• 401k with 100% match up to 4% of annual employee compensation.
• Eligible new parents receive 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Hybrid work environment with catered lunches and frequent employee-organized cultural events.