Lead AI Software Engineer (AI Platform & Architecture)

TL;DR

Lead AI Software Engineer (AI Platform & Architecture): Building and operating production AI, backend, cloud, infrastructure, and full-stack systems with an accent on architecture, reusable engineering platforms, and technical quality across multiple teams. Focus on integrating foundation models, retrieval and orchestration systems, improving reliability and developer velocity, and solving complex production challenges.

Location: United States; remote-first

Salary: $180,000–$225,000 annual gross base salary, plus variable compensation.

Company

hirify.global provides a SaaS-based global employment platform and AI-powered HR compliance solutions for organizations hiring and managing teams across more than 180 countries.

What you will do

• Define and evolve architecture and engineering practices across multiple teams.
• Lead technical designs, RFCs, architecture reviews, and critical code reviews with Engineering Managers and senior engineers.
• Build and ship production systems across AI, backend, cloud, infrastructure, and full-stack applications.
• Design and operate AI systems covering model integration, orchestration, retrieval, evaluation, and monitoring.
• Improve CI/CD, testing, observability, reliability, security, and developer experience.
• Create reusable platforms, libraries, reference implementations, and engineering guardrails while mentoring engineers.

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in software architecture.
• Founding Engineer experience with scaling startups.
• Strong experience designing, building, and operating production software systems.
• Deep expertise in AI systems, backend or distributed systems, infrastructure, and cloud architecture.
• Practical understanding of foundation models, inference, retrieval, orchestration, evaluation, latency, and cost.
• Experience with Python, Go, TypeScript, Kubernetes, major cloud platforms, and full-stack development.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first environment with flexible resources and distributed collaboration.
• Paid parental leave and flexible time off.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Spending accounts and a sabbatical after five years.
• Annual bonus eligibility for non-sales roles, subject to individual and company performance.