Senior Software Engineer (AI Tools)

Location: New York, New York; onsite

Annual base pay: $225,000–$250,000, plus discretionary bonus and benefits.

Company

hirify.global is a global quantitative trading firm using scientific research, machine learning, and advanced technology to develop systematic trading strategies.

What you will do

• Design and implement autonomous and semi-autonomous AI agents for multi-step workflows across internal systems.
• Build and productionize retrieval-augmented generation architectures using structured, permissioned data sources.
• Develop agent memory, orchestration layers, inter-agent communication, and tool schemas.
• Implement safeguards against hallucination, prompt drift, context-management issues, and rate limits.
• Partner with developers, quants, and traders to identify automation opportunities and deploy solutions.
• Evaluate and integrate emerging models, frameworks, and open-source AI tooling.

Requirements

• 5–10+ years of software engineering experience and a track record of building AI-powered applications, automation platforms, or agentic systems in production.
• Expert-level Python, including async programming, typing, packaging, and testing best practices.
• Experience building AI agents that interact with APIs, tools, codebases, and shell environments.
• Strong understanding of RAG patterns and vector databases such as Pinecone, Chroma, or pgvector.
• Familiarity with agent frameworks such as LangChain or LangGraph, plus deep understanding of LLM behavior and mitigation strategies.
• Strong system design skills, independent execution, and experience handling sensitive or proprietary data securely.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on work within a newly formed AI systems initiative.
• Opportunity to define scalable patterns for deploying AI agents across the firm.
• Collaborative environment bringing together researchers, engineers, quants, and traders.
• Discretionary bonus and employee benefits.