Senior Applied AI Engineer (AI)

Location: San Francisco, California

Base salary: $190K–$265K per year, plus equity and bonus.

Company

hirify.global provides a documentation platform serving more than 100 million developers annually and supporting over 20,000 companies.

What you will do

• Architect and ship customer-facing AI experiences across agent orchestration, tool use, frontend interfaces, backend systems, and APIs.
• Build reliable agent loops that reason over complex context, call tools, recover from failures, and complete long-running tasks.
• Define evaluations and feedback loops to analyze failures and improve prompts, context, models, tools, and product flows.
• Turn AI prototypes into production systems by making decisions around architecture, latency, cost, observability, and user experience.
• Shape product direction and engineering approaches across the stack while engaging directly with customers.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to engineering practices and technical direction.

Requirements

• At least 4 years of professional software development experience.
• Deep experience building production systems with language models, including agent loops, tool use, retrieval, prompting, and structured outputs.
• Comfort owning production software across frontend, backend, APIs, databases, and infrastructure.
• Experience leading complex projects from experimentation through production and defining solutions independently.
• Strong product intuition and interest in building user-facing software.
• Experience mentoring engineers and sharing technical knowledge.

Culture & Benefits

• Small engineering organization with substantial individual ownership and impact.
• Product-minded, high-agency environment with dedicated builder time and influence on strategic decisions.
• Competitive compensation with equity and bonus opportunities.
• 20 days of paid time off annually.
• 401(k) or RRSP, health, dental, and vision coverage.
• $420 monthly wellness stipend, commuting support, meals, and an annual team offsite.