Software Engineer, Applied AI (AI)

Location: San Francisco, California, United States; onsite at least 2 days per week from the San Francisco office, with 2–4 days preferred.

Salary: $150,000–$170,000 annual base compensation, excluding bonus, equity, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global is a defense technology company developing products powered by Coherent Distributed Networks for defense, aerospace, commercial aviation, and border protection applications.

What you will do

• Build and deploy applied AI systems, model integrations, inference services, evaluation pipelines, and production-facing capabilities.
• Research, collect data, validate hypotheses, and develop robust, testable, maintainable models with product and mission teams.
• Evaluate and improve model performance under adversarial, noisy, GPS-denied, low-power, and edge deployment conditions.
• Develop production-quality data pipelines, model-serving infrastructure, monitoring, lifecycle management, and system integrations.
• Prototype solutions with stakeholders and iterate toward production-ready implementations.
• Improve AI system reliability through testing, benchmarking, observability, interpretability, failure analysis, and performance optimization.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, machine learning, applied mathematics, physics, or a related technical field.
• At least 2 years of professional software development experience.
• Strong Python programming skills and experience building, testing, deploying, and supporting production software.
• Experience with AI/ML model integration, model serving infrastructure, or model lifecycle management.
• Experience with model evaluation, benchmarking, robustness testing, interpretability, or ML observability.
• Familiarity with APIs, distributed systems, containers, CI/CD, observability, edge deployment environments, and GPU optimization.

Nice to have

• Experience with RF signal processing, image or video processing, computer vision, LLM applications, AI agents, or autonomous systems.
• Experience with drones, robotics, sensor fusion, tracking, or moving-target detection.
• Background in aerospace, defense, critical infrastructure, robotics, or other mission-critical environments.
• Experience with low-latency inference, hardware-constrained systems, or degraded-connectivity environments.
• Open-source contributions or other technically significant public work.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits fully paid by the company.
• 401(k) with a 50% company match up to 6% of pay, plus FSA, HSA, and life insurance.
• Unlimited paid time off, free daily lunch, no-meeting Fridays, and a casual dress code.
• Pre-IPO stock options, relocation assistance, and planned annual bonuses.
• Approximately 10–20% travel, mostly domestic.