Sr. Staff Engineer – AI Enablement & Engineering Excellence (AI)

Location: Hybrid in Palo Alto, California, United States

Annual salary: $130,000–$260,000

Company

hirify.global is a large United States auto insurer and a member of the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies.

What you will do

• Own the organization-wide strategy for applying AI across the software development lifecycle.
• Pilot and operationalize AI pair programming, LLM-assisted code review, automated test generation, intelligent observability, and agentic development workflows.
• Design adoption frameworks and metrics covering productivity, code quality, security, cost, and developer experience.
• Provide architecture guidance for systems integrating LLMs, AI agents, and ML models into production software.
• Define standards for prompt engineering, evaluation, latency, cost tradeoffs, and observability of AI-enabled tools.
• Partner with engineering leaders to improve test coverage, CI/CD, observability, code ownership, and architectural consistency.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years focused on AI/ML tooling, LLM integration, or AI-assisted development workflows.
• Production-level experience with AI developer tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, LLM-powered code review, or test generation.
• Deep understanding of LLM fundamentals, including prompt engineering, context management, fine-tuning tradeoffs, and evaluation.
• Experience designing and shipping AI-integrated systems at scale while managing cost, latency, and quality tradeoffs.
• Ability to drive technical adoption across large engineering organizations without direct authority.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for explaining technical tradeoffs to engineers and senior leaders.

Nice to have

• Principal- or staff-level individual contributor experience with cross-organizational scope.
• Experience building internal AI enablement programs, developer experience platforms, or AI governance frameworks.
• Contributions to AI/ML open-source projects or technical writing on AI engineering topics.
• Background in platform engineering or AI-focused developer tooling.

Culture & Benefits

• Personalized development programs, mentorship, and certification assistance.
• Inclusive and collaborative culture centered on shared success.
• Competitive pay, benefits, and flexibility supporting employee well-being.
• hirify.global will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization.