Developer Experience Engineer (AI/HPC)

Location: San Jose, United States; fully in-person

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

Company

hirify.global builds hardware, software, racks, and manufacturing systems for frontier AI inference, with a focus on throughput and latency.

What you will do

• Develop automation tools for development, testing, and deployment workflows.
• Optimize Slurm-based scheduling for AI workloads, simulations, and chip design.
• Build observability solutions with Grafana, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry.
• Manage Docker and Kubernetes environments, including scalability and reproducibility improvements.
• Enhance CI/CD, build, caching, and artifact management systems.
• Integrate AWS and GCP resources and support secrets management, access control, and developer tooling documentation.

Requirements

• Strong Python skills for automation, scripting, and infrastructure development.
• Experience with Slurm job scheduling in HPC or hybrid environments.
• Hands-on experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
• Expertise with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm charts, and cluster management.
• Experience managing modern CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Buildkite.
• Experience with Terraform or Ansible and cloud compute and storage optimization on AWS or GCP.

Nice to have

• AI/ML data pipelines using Airflow, Prefect, or Dagster.
• Build systems such as Bazel, CMake, or distributed build systems.
• Secrets management with Vault, SOPS, AWS Secrets Manager, or GCP Secret Manager.
• AI/ML training workflows, GPU workload monitoring, or FPGA and ASIC development environments.

Culture & Benefits

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