Product Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Product Engineer (AI): Owning the developer-facing search experience at hirify.global, taking retrieval and ranking improvements from research and shipping them as a product developers can't stop using with an accent on API design, latency, and developer experience. Focus on translating research into product decisions, running fast product experiments, and raising the bar on developer experience.

Location: San Francisco, CA (Hybrid) OR Remote (Americas, UTC-3 to UTC-10)

Salary: $180K – $290K

Company

hirify.global is the easiest way to extract data from the web, allowing developers to reliably convert URLs into LLM-ready markdown or structured data with a single API call.

What you will do

• Ship search improvements that developers notice by turning retrieval and ranking improvements from research into product changes.
• Own the search API end-to-end, ensuring it is easy to integrate, use, and build on.
• Dogfood relentlessly, building things with the API before shipping them to feel the friction before users do.
• Translate research into product decisions, working closely with Search/IR and RL Research Engineers.
• Run fast product experiments to improve search for developers, making calls with imperfect data.
• Raise the bar on developer experience, ensuring response formats are consistent, error messages are helpful, and documentation matches behavior.

Requirements

• 3+ years in applied RL, ML engineering, or model training with production systems.
• Obsessive about developer experience, thinking about DX the way a designer thinks about pixels.
• Speaks both product and engineering fluently, able to read a ranking algorithm and write the API spec.
• Hands-on builder who ships, owning features from design to deployment.
• Has a feel for search as a product, understanding the difference between recall and precision.
• Brings production instincts, knowing what breaks first and how to make good latency/quality tradeoffs.

Culture & Benefits

• Salary that makes sense: $180,000–$290,000/year, based on impact, not tenure.
• Own a piece: Up to 0.15% equity in what you're helping build.
• Generous PTO: 15 days mandatory, anything after 24 days, just ask (holidays excluded).
• Parental leave: 12 weeks fully paid, for moms and dads.
• Wellness stipend: $100/month for the gym, therapy, massages, or whatever keeps you human.
• Learning & Development: Expense up to $1,000/year toward anything that helps you grow professionally.

Hiring process

• Application Review: Send your work and a quick note on why this excites you.
• Deep Dive Chat (~45 min): Go deep on search products and APIs you've built.
• Paid Work Trial (1–2 weeks): Tackle a real search product problem with production implications.