Senior Software Engineer, Agent Platform (AI for the Planet)

Location: Seattle, WA; expected to work from the Seattle offices

Salary: $146,880–$220,320 base salary per year, plus bonus plans and a long-term incentive plan.

Company

hirify.global is a Seattle-based nonprofit AI research institute building foundational AI and real-world solutions for conservation, climate, food security, disaster resilience, data, and robotics.

What you will do

• Design and evolve platform APIs for agent registration, authentication, secrets, deployment, runtime, events, discovery, and evaluation.
• Build observability capabilities including logs, conversation history, execution traces, metrics, and failure reporting.
• Develop evaluation tooling for defining evaluations, comparing versions, tracking quality, and identifying regressions.
• Build and operate identity, authorization, runtime orchestration, deployment, event routing, and agent registry services.
• Build and run production AI agents, including prompt and tool design, quality and cost tuning, and operational maintenance.
• Own the developer experience through SDKs, CLI tools, documentation, quickstarts, example agents, and local development workflows.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience across web services, distributed systems, data pipelines, and cloud tooling.
• Track record of shipping products to external users and owning them in production.
• Strong opinions about API design, with a preference for simple solutions.
• Fluency with modern AI tools and the ability to adapt to evolving LLM and agent architectures.
• Clear technical communication with engineers and non-engineers; willingness to write documentation as part of the work.

Nice to have

• Experience building developer platforms, SDKs, or public APIs for external consumers.
• Experience shipping LLM agents to production, including tool use, orchestration, sandboxing, and cost or latency tuning.
• Experience building evaluation or experimentation systems for nondeterministic software.
• Small or growth-stage company experience, or public technical work such as open source, writing, or side projects.
• Willingness to travel occasionally.

Culture & Benefits

• Mission-driven work focused on environmental conservation, food security, and climate solutions.
• Close collaboration with users, ML researchers, product, partnerships, front-end engineers, and customers.
• Medical, dental, vision, employee assistance, HSA, HRA, and healthcare and dependent-care FSA plans.
• 401(k), annual bonuses, long-term incentive plan, paid vacation, sick leave, personal days, holidays, and family leave.
• Monthly support for commuting or internet expenses and fitness and wellbeing expenses.
• Seattle office environment with an emphasis on collaboration, learning, inclusion, and work-life balance.