Senior Staff/Principal Deployment Automation Engineer (AI)

Location: Onsite in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, or Bellevue, United States

Salary: $250,000–$300,000 annually plus bonus; restricted stock units included.

Company

hirify.global is an AI infrastructure company operating an integrated stack from energy and data centers to cloud services for large-scale AI workloads.

What you will do

• Own deployment and integration-testing automation for bare-metal, on-premise systems across the AI Cloud stack.
• Build CI/CD platforms and GitLab tooling for reliable testing, iteration, and infrastructure releases across multiple data centers.
• Design large-scale validation tests for multi-node virtualized GPU and CPU clusters, including scaling, stability, performance, and tenant-isolation testing.
• Maintain and scale bare-metal Linux configurations using Ansible, AWX, osquery, and related tools.
• Develop deployment orchestration for canary releases, Blue/Green testing, and automated rollback on production systems.
• Build Python or Go automation frameworks to provision, configure, stress-test, and observe virtualized environments.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience and a bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Experience building automated integration testing for AI Cloud environments, from low-level Linux systems through distributed control planes.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and Postgres.
• Advanced Python and/or Bash skills, with intimate knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and GitLab tooling.
• Experience with one or more configuration-management systems, including Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or SaltStack.
• Knowledge of Linux kernel internals, PCIe topology, VFIO, HugePages, IOMMU, distributed GPU stacks, RDMA, RoCE, and InfiniBand.

Nice to have

• Experience with MNNVL or specialized AI fabric architectures.
• Familiarity with NVIDIA Nsight, AMD Omniperf, and hardware-level debugging or performance-profiling tools.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes GPU orchestration and specialized device plugins.

Culture & Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance with employer HSA contributions.
• Paid time off, holidays, parental leave, leave-of-absence programs, and volunteer time off.
• 401(k) plan with company matching up to 4% of salary.
• Professional development, tuition reimbursement, and mental health and wellness support.
• Life insurance, disability coverage, global travel insurance, commuter benefits, meals allowance, and a cell phone stipend.