Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer (Backend): Building and optimizing large-scale job orchestration and scheduling systems for ML workloads with an accent on distributed systems, reliability, and high-load backend services. Focus on designing scalable APIs, implementing failure recovery mechanisms, and ensuring efficient resource utilization for automated driving model training.

Location: Must be based in the US (Pittsburgh, PA; Palo Alto, CA; or Detroit, MI)

Salary: $179,200 - $268,800 USD

Company

hirify.global develops automated driving technologies for Ford vehicles, operating with the speed and agility of a technology startup.

What you will do

• Build and improve systems that orchestrate, schedule, run, and monitor large numbers of ML jobs for automated driving features.
• Design reliable software that handles failures, retries, and high load while ensuring results are accurate and timely.
• Develop and maintain backend services and APIs to support job submission and execution of long-running work.
• Investigate production issues, identify root causes, and implement fixes to prevent repeat failures.
• Review designs and code to ensure solutions remain simple, reliable, and scalable over time.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, ML, and data science teams to optimize computing resource utilization.

Requirements

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis (Visa sponsorship is available).
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, CS, Electrical Engineering, Robotics or related field with 4+ years of experience (or Master's with 2+ / PhD).
• At least 6+ years of total experience in a related field, actively coding and designing 80% of the time.
• Expertise in backend languages such as Kotlin, Java, Go, or Python and their respective frameworks.
• Experience designing high-scale distributed systems using modern backend patterns for reliability, coordination, and asynchronous processing.
• Prior experience building or operating large-scale job scheduling or workload orchestration platforms (e.g., container-based or batch computing).

Nice to have

• Exposure to performance tuning, cost optimization, or capacity planning for compute-intensive workloads.
• Experience with large-scale computing platforms managing shared resources and competing workloads.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer match.
• Employer-matched 401(k) retirement plan with immediate vesting.
• Unlimited vacation and 15 paid holidays.
• Paid parental and medical leave.
• On-site perks including daily lunches, snacks, and beverages in all office locations.
• Professional development reimbursement and monthly wellness stipends.