Engineer (AI Infrastructure)

Location: On-site in San Jose, Santana Row

Salary: $200,000–$275,000 per year plus significant equity

Company

hirify.global develops co-designed chips, racks, software, and manufacturing systems focused on high-throughput, low-latency AI inference.

What you will do

• Architect and implement low-level control-plane software for system bring-up, configuration, and management of cluster-scale AI compute deployments.
• Build system services that interact with hardware, firmware, and the operating system.
• Develop telemetry, logging, and tracing infrastructure to diagnose failures and improve performance.
• Implement orchestration primitives for devices, nodes, and racks.
• Profile and tune performance across PCIe, memory, networking, kernel, and runtime layers.
• Collaborate with hardware, firmware, kernel, and runtime teams to co-design system interfaces.

Requirements

• Strong proficiency in C, C++, or Rust for low-level systems programming.
• Deep understanding of Linux internals, kernel and user-space boundaries, and system-level debugging.
• Experience with drivers, DMA, interrupts, memory management, or device control paths.
• Strong debugging skills using logs, tracing, and low-level observability tools.
• Strong communication skills and comfort collaborating across hardware and software teams.
• Availability for fully in-person work in San Jose.

Nice to have

• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, or other data center orchestration technologies.
• Experience with kernel development, device drivers, firmware-adjacent software, or system bring-up.
• Familiarity with PCIe, NUMA, networking, high-speed interconnects, perf, eBPF, or ftrace.
• Background in HPC, AI infrastructure, large-scale compute systems, system test harnesses, or failure-injection frameworks.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully in-person, cross-disciplinary engineering and research environment.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage with generous premium support.
• $500 monthly credit for waiving medical benefits.
• $2,000 monthly housing subsidy for employees living within walking distance of the office.
• Relocation support for moves to San Jose, plus wellness benefits and daily lunch and dinner.
• Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification.