Principal Software Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Principal Software Engineer (AI): Architecting and delivering agentic systems that implement sense → think → act loops, driving the engineering organization beyond prompt-response patterns to autonomous workflows with an accent on AI-driven workflows where AI takes action, produces measurable output, and improves through iteration and feedback. Focus on setting standards for AI-native development, building reusable foundations, and leading & growing the organization.

Location: Hybrid, Boston, MA

Salary: $160,000 - $190,000 USD

Company

hirify.global is building the AI-native future of wealth management technology and is a leading provider of wealth management solutions and services that enable financial advisors and institutions to efficiently manage and trade their clients' portfolios using an innovative SaaS ecosystem.

What you will do

• Architect and deliver agentic systems that implement sense → think → act loops.
• Drive the engineering organization beyond prompt-response patterns to multi-step, autonomous workflows.
• Engineer AI-driven workflows where AI takes action, produces measurable output, and improves through iteration and feedback.
• Define how engineers use AI-assisted development tools as a team-wide engineering discipline.
• Design and deliver frameworks, integration patterns, and technical capabilities that reduce the cost of building every subsequent solution.
• Collaborate across engineering, product, and operations to share what's working, surface what isn't, and help AI-native practices take hold organically.

Requirements

• Demonstrated expertise building and delivering complex, production-grade software systems.
• Strong fundamentals across the full engineering lifecycle.
• Comfort designing systems where behavior is non-deterministic and may evolve over time.
• Experience with AWS or equivalent cloud-native environments and CI/CD pipelines.
• Proven, hands-on experience building agentic systems.
• Deep practical knowledge of LLM integration.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience delivering at least one production agentic system.
• Experience building platform or framework-level tooling consumed by other engineering teams at scale.
• Background in financial services technology.
• Demonstrated work at the intersection of technical depth and business outcomes.

Culture & Benefits

• Build agentic AI systems in production in a domain where the business consequences of this work are direct and measurable.
• Define what AI-native engineering means in practice at a company that has committed to this transformation with dedicated funding and executive sponsorship.
• Operate with genuine Principal-level autonomy; you will define the patterns and standards.
• Equity-based grants for all new hires.
• Company-paid medical premiums of 90%.
• Competitive time-off program.