Engineer Lead (AI Platform)

Location: Remote within the United States

Salary: $150,000–$195,000 USD

Company

hirify.global is a technology company that builds scalable digital services and modernizes technology for federal, commercial, and nonprofit organizations.

What you will do

• Guide the technical direction and delivery of internal developer platforms, CI/CD services, engineering automation, and AI-enabled tools.
• Design reusable platform services, APIs, templates, integrations, and self-service workflows for onboarding, access, environments, infrastructure, and deployments.
• Automate ATO, NIST, RMF, and IRS security controls, policy checks, evidence collection, and approval workflows.
• Build and integrate AI solutions such as retrieval-augmented generation chatbots, multi-agent systems, and AI-assisted engineering workflows.
• Lead architecture reviews, technical discovery, planning sessions, demonstrations, and stakeholder discussions.
• Mentor engineers, support hiring and performance management, and coordinate team development with organizational leadership.

Requirements

• 12+ years of relevant engineering experience and a master's degree, or equivalent additional experience in lieu of a degree.
• 2+ years of mentoring, coaching, or technical leadership experience.
• Experience delivering production software, APIs, CI/CD systems, engineering platforms, infrastructure automation, or data pipelines.
• Experience integrating security, compliance, testing, and quality controls into engineering workflows.
• Experience with cloud-native platforms, containers, infrastructure as code, source control, automated testing, and production operations.
• Must meet federal suitability requirements and pass a background investigation.

Nice to have

• Experience with federal ATO processes, RMF, NIST controls, continuous monitoring, or compliance evidence automation.
• Experience with Red Hat Developer Hub, Backstage, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins.
• Experience with retrieval-augmented generation, vector databases, LLM integrations, AI agents, or multi-agent orchestration.
• Experience with data integration, orchestration, metadata management, analytics, data governance, or policy as code.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first culture with tools and practices designed for distributed collaboration.
• Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Flexible PTO and paid parental leave after one year of service.
• 401(k) with employer match.
• Employee Assistance Program.