Principal AI Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Principal AI Engineer (AI): Building a core AI tutoring system designed to emulate and surpass human tutors with an accent on prompt architectures and agentic workflows. Focus on developing custom evaluation frameworks and productionizing novel model interactions to improve learning effectiveness.

Location: Remote from United Kingdom, Belgium, Portugal, or UAE

Company

hirify.global empowers learners and organizations to harness the power of data and AI through practical, engaging learning experiences.

What you will do

• Build and evolve the core AI tutoring system, including prompt architectures and agentic workflows.
• Run rigorous experimentation and evaluation, developing custom metrics to measure learning effectiveness and model reliability.
• Design and implement scalable software, integrating AI capabilities with platform systems and content pipelines.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with educators, content creators, and product teams to translate pedagogical goals into technical solutions.
• Prototype and productionize novel model interactions by leveraging emerging AI research.
• Ensure quality, safety, and observability through monitoring, testing, and iterative refinement of model behavior.

Requirements

• 1+ years of experience building complex LLM-based systems.
• Strong prompt engineering intuition and experience designing agentic workflows.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, architectural thinking, and fluency in Python.
• Comfortable working with production infrastructure, cloud environments, and CI/CD.
• Ability to design meaningful evaluation methods and custom metrics.
• Must be based in the United Kingdom, Belgium, Portugal, or UAE.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible working hours and a flexible future approach.
• Yearly learning budget for conferences and training.
• International company retreats to foster global team spirit.
• Yearly IT equipment budget for home working setup.
• Competitive compensation and attractive benefits.