Digital - Principal SRE (AI Engineer)

Location: Columbus, OH, United States; office workplace type. Applicants must be currently authorized to work full-time in the United States. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Company

hirify.global is a banking organization providing digital platforms and mission-critical financial services.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and deploy AI-driven systems and automation that improve the reliability and efficiency of digital platforms.
• Monitor the health, availability, performance, and observability of AI-enabled applications and infrastructure.
• Integrate machine learning models into production environments and establish SLOs, error budgets, and incident response procedures.
• Investigate complex AI-system incidents, conduct post-incident analysis, automate manual operations, and optimize performance.
• Develop abstraction layers across AI providers such as Google and OpenAI to support agent workflows.
• Run design workshops and proofs of concept, and define metrics, test harnesses, and evaluation plans for agent accuracy, latency, safety, and cost.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, data science, or a related field, plus relevant experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in AI/ML engineering, SRE, DevOps, or related roles.
• Programming experience in Python, Java, or similar languages, including developing and deploying machine learning models.
• Experience with AWS or GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code using Terraform or Ansible, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, the ELK stack, and ServiceNow incident management.
• Full-time United States work authorization is required; immigration sponsorship is not available.

Nice to have

• Experience operationalizing large language models or generative AI systems in production.
• Background in MLOps, data engineering, or cloud-native AI deployment.
• Knowledge of security best practices for AI and cloud infrastructure.
• Contributions to open-source AI or SRE projects and technical communities.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaboration with Digital SRE engineers, data scientists, DevOps, operations teams, and cross-segment stakeholders.
• Opportunities to work on AI solutions and reliability for mission-critical digital services.
• Focus on reusable patterns, documentation, runbooks, and knowledge sharing.
• On-call responsibilities may be required.
• Exempt position and not eligible for overtime pay.