Founding Software Engineer (AI)

Location: United States; conditions include onsite roles in San Francisco and remote work associated with a Houston headquarters

Salary: $200,000–$250,000 with equity

Company

hirify.global is an early-stage applied-AI company building an AI research analyst and an AI-native investor for financial markets.

What you will do

• Build a production-grade Python platform for AI-driven investment research.
• Design agents that decompose complex investment questions into effective research tasks.
• Develop systems for generating and safely executing auditable data-science code.
• Evaluate reasoning quality, reliability, and usefulness while improving output quality.
• Build traceability, provenance, backend services, and supporting data infrastructure.
• Diagnose failures across decomposition, reasoning, tool use, and code execution, and shape the system architecture.

Requirements

• Exceptional Python engineering ability.
• Experience building substantial applied-AI, research-engineering, or backend systems.
• Evidence of taking ambiguous projects from concept to production.
• Strong judgment across software architecture, data systems, and product quality.
• Ability to investigate complex AI-system failures and iterate through measurement and experimentation.
• Interest in AI systems, financial research, or machine-assisted decision-making.

Nice to have

• Experience with LLM agents, orchestration frameworks, or tool-using systems.
• Model evaluation and quality-measurement infrastructure.
• Secure or sandboxed code execution.
• Data-science or quantitative-research workflows and financial data platforms.
• Observability, provenance, or auditability.

Culture & Benefits

• Join at a very early stage and help shape the intelligence system and the company.
• Broad ownership across applied AI, data science, and financial markets.
• Direct access to founders.
• Opportunity to solve difficult technical problems across the full system.
• Equity included with compensation.