Applied AI Engineer

Location: On-site in San Jose, California

Salary: $150,000–$275,000 per year plus significant equity

Company

hirify.global builds frontier AI hardware by co-designing chips, racks, software, and manufacturing systems focused on high-throughput, low-latency inference.

What you will do

• Build, deploy, and maintain LLM-agent workflows for chip-development tasks, including debug triage, testbench and coverage work, waveform and log analysis, EDA script generation, and technical knowledge retrieval.
• Embed with RTL design, verification, DFT, physical design, and silicon-validation teams to identify high-impact problems and automate workflows.
• Design evaluations based on real silicon-engineering tasks and use results to guide iteration and adoption.
• Integrate agents with simulation and emulation flows, CI and regression systems, lab equipment, and issue tracking through tool-calling and MCP.
• Create documentation, training, and feedback loops to support adoption among hardware engineers.

Requirements

• Experience building and shipping LLM-based agents or AI tooling used by real users, including context engineering, tool integration, orchestration, and failure analysis.
• Strong problem-solving skills across unfamiliar technical domains and comfort working with ambiguity.
• Practical fluency with Python and the ability to read, modify, debug, and direct AI-assisted code development.
• Experience using agentic coding tools, deep research, and frontier AI models to learn and solve new problems.
• An evaluation-driven approach to measuring whether AI systems work before scaling them.
• Willingness to work fully in person in San Jose and learn chip-development concepts quickly.

Nice to have

• Experience with RTL or SystemVerilog, UVM, DFT, physical design or STA, FPGA, emulation, silicon bring-up, or validation.
• Experience with EDA flows, Tcl scripting, waveforms, logs, and regression systems.
• Experience with fine-tuning or post-training, RAG over proprietary technical data, or multi-agent orchestration.
• Experience with C++ or Rust, internal developer platforms, CI/CD at scale, Docker, Slurm, or Ray.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully in-person engineering and research environment in San Jose, with cross-disciplinary collaboration.
• Full medical, dental, and vision coverage with generous premium support.
• $2,000 monthly housing subsidy for employees living within walking distance of the office.
• Relocation support for moves to San Jose.
• Daily lunch and dinner at the office and an unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification.