Staff AI Engineer (Cybersecurity)

TL;DR

Staff AI Engineer (Cybersecurity): Leading the design and delivery of AI-powered product initiatives with an accent on LLM pipelines, agentic workflows, and retrieval infrastructure. Focus on setting engineering standards for AI-augmented development and driving high-velocity, high-quality technical strategy across the organization.

Location: Remote (US)

Salary: $180,000 - $220,000

Company

hirify.global is a global leader in cybersecurity ratings, providing patented technology for risk management and cyber insurance underwriting to over 25,000 organizations.

What you will do

• Lead the design and delivery of major AI-powered product initiatives from concept through production.
• Define technical architecture for AI systems, including LLM pipelines, agentic workflows, and evaluation frameworks.
• Set organizational standards for AI development practices, tooling, and quality bars.
• Model high-velocity, AI-augmented engineering using tools like Cursor and Claude Code.
• Collaborate with product leadership and the CTO organization to shape the AI product roadmap.
• Drive architecture reviews and eliminate bottlenecks in the AI feature lifecycle.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of leading complex, high-impact projects.
• 3+ years building and shipping AI-powered product features in production.
• Proficiency in TypeScript and strong backend engineering fundamentals.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS) and distributed systems at scale.
• Must be based in the United States as this role does not provide immigration sponsorship.
• Exceptional communication skills to drive alignment across executive stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Prior experience in a Staff or Principal engineering role.
• Background in cybersecurity, threat intelligence, or enterprise risk products.
• Experience building agentic AI systems or multi-agent orchestration.
• Track record of defining engineering standards at the organizational level.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive salary and stock options.
• Comprehensive health benefits and unlimited PTO.
• Parental leave and tuition reimbursement programs.
• Commitment to diversity and equal employment opportunity.
• Work in a recognized "Best Workplace" with a focus on employee engagement.