FDE Intern (AI)

Location: San Francisco, United States; work arrangement: On-site

Company

hirify.global builds infrastructure that enables AI agents to communicate with workplace tools such as GitHub, Gmail, Notion, and Salesforce.

What you will do

• Manage the on-premise lifecycle, including Helm charts, upgrades, weekly releases, and rollback paths.
• Help consolidate divergent customer forks onto a supported chart with appropriate guardrails.
• Improve onboarding so new customers can deploy the platform in days rather than weeks.
• Debug across Temporal workflows, Kubernetes initialization ordering, storage, and authentication-refresh pipelines.
• Support the security surface through CVE triage, patching, and root-cause analyses.

Requirements

• Experience building in environments that are not fully controlled, such as homelabs, VPCs, or self-hosted infrastructure.
• Curiosity about Kubernetes and Helm, with a desire to develop deep expertise.
• Experience building with language models and informed opinions about AI agents and MCP.
• Comfortable working in Linux and writing clear root-cause analyses.
• Ability to build trust and acknowledge knowledge gaps.

Nice to have

• Experience with Temporal, PostgreSQL, or cloud secret managers.
• Experience with self-hosted delivery, KOTS, or air-gapped environments.
• Open-source contributions or hackathon wins.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a lean engineering team building infrastructure for AI agents.
• Contribute to a rapidly growing product used by startups and established customers.
• Take ownership of complex infrastructure problems across the deployment and security lifecycle.