Forward Deployment Engineer (AI)

Location: Remote - US; willingness to travel up to 50% to customer sites.

Salary: $138,000–$170,000 USD base salary per year.

Company

hirify.global develops an integrated hardware and software platform for enterprise and government generative AI and high-performance computing.

What you will do

• Embed with strategic enterprise customers to design, build, and deploy production GenAI applications on the SN40L platform and SambaStack.
• Architect LLM-powered workflows, including RAG pipelines, multi-agent systems, fine-tuning workflows, and coding solutions.
• Optimize inference performance on hirify.global hardware and benchmark model throughput, latency, and accuracy.
• Troubleshoot production issues across model, software, and hardware layers as the technical escalation lead.
• Translate customer needs into product requirements and engineering feedback while partnering with Product and Engineering.
• Develop reusable accelerators, reference architectures, and playbooks, and present technical findings to customers and internal stakeholders.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on engineering experience shipping production AI/ML systems.
• Deep expertise in LLM orchestration, RAG, agentic frameworks, prompt engineering, and evaluation pipelines.
• Strong knowledge of model training, fine-tuning, inference optimization, quantization, and performance benchmarking.
• Proficiency in Python; working knowledge of C++ or CUDA is advantageous for hardware-layer debugging.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, plus containerization, Kubernetes, Docker, and MLOps tooling.
• Bachelor's or graduate degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or equivalent practical experience; strong customer-facing communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI accelerators or custom silicon, including TPUs.
• CUDA or low-level GPU programming experience.
• Familiarity with vLLM or SGLang.
• Enterprise AI deployments in regulated industries.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time US employment with equity and a competitive total rewards package.
• Medical insurance with 95% employee premium coverage and 77% dependent premium coverage.
• Dental, vision, disability, life, AD&D, HSA, and FSA benefits.
• Well-being benefits including Headspace, Gympass+, One Medical, and counseling through an Employee Assistance Program.
• Opportunity to work on enterprise-grade generative AI infrastructure and represent the platform at industry events.