Engineering Manager, AI Platform

Location: Remote within the United States. U.S. Citizenship is required to access U.S.-only data systems. Willingness to travel to offsites, team syncs, and customer sites is required.

Company

hirify.global is a defense technology company developing agentic AI and decision-support systems for national security and mission-critical operations.

What you will do

• Lead the AI Platform organization, defining technical direction, operating models, and roadmaps.
• Build reliable ML enrichment pipelines, shared services, and operational standards used across products.
• Scale the agents runtime with durable execution, orchestration, state and workflow management, observability, evaluation, and quality controls.
• Establish reusable interfaces, platform primitives, and engineering practices for AI-enabled product development.
• Partner with Product, Design, Mission, Security, and Infrastructure teams to prioritize platform investments and manage operational risk.
• Recruit, mentor, and develop engineers and engineering leaders while fostering technical excellence and mission impact.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience as an engineering manager leading and developing software engineering teams.
• 5+ years of hands-on machine learning experience and 2+ years building agentic AI systems in production.
• Experience building platforms used by multiple internal product or engineering teams.
• Strong knowledge of production AI/ML and agent systems, including orchestration, evaluation, observability, reliability, quality, and cost management.
• Proficiency with Python, PostgreSQL or relational databases, AWS or other cloud services, and distributed-system and workflow-engineering patterns.
• U.S. Citizenship required; willingness to travel to offsites, team syncs, and customer sites.

Nice to have

• Experience with LangGraph, Temporal, Agno, or similar agent and workflow orchestration frameworks.
• Experience with ML platforms, data pipelines, model evaluation, retrieval, or enrichment systems.
• Experience building secure and reliable systems in regulated or mission-critical environments.
• Active security clearance or ability and willingness to obtain one.
• Defense, national security, or intelligence software experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-friendly work with WeWork access.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Unlimited PTO, federal-holiday downtime, and company-wide year-end time off.
• 401(k) match and lifestyle and wellbeing stipends.
• Fully paid parental leave and child and pet care reimbursement during travel.
• Salary top-up during military reserve duty.