Software Engineer (AI)

Location: San Francisco, California, United States — on-site

Salary: $150,000–$200,000 annually, plus meaningful equity.

Company

hirify.global represents an AI company building expert-reasoning and data infrastructure used to develop frontier models and serving major AI labs.

What you will do

• Build scalable backend systems and complex data-capture workflows using Python and JavaScript/Next.js.
• Architect high-throughput, data-heavy pipelines for demanding production workloads.
• Own cloud infrastructure across AWS or GCP, including serverless systems and cloud functions.
• Deploy and operate production workloads with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Build low-latency distributed systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ, Redis, and Elasticsearch.
• Take projects from ambiguous problems through architecture, implementation, infrastructure, deployment, and delivery while working directly with founders.

Requirements

• Strong backend, platform, or infrastructure engineering experience.
• Hands-on production experience with Python.
• Experience owning substantial projects end-to-end, including cloud infrastructure.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems, data pipelines, and high-throughput architectures.
• Production experience with Docker and ideally Kubernetes.
• Experience with AWS or GCP, serverless architecture, and cloud-based data processing; familiarity with Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, or Elasticsearch.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI research, LLM evaluations, human-in-the-loop systems, or frontier-model data infrastructure.

Culture & Benefits

• Work directly with founders to define product strategy and make important technical decisions.
• Join a team of more than 30 engineers, researchers, and operators.
• Meaningful equity is included in the compensation package.
• Visa sponsorship is available, including O-1 and H-1B transfers.
• Relocation support may be negotiated at the offer stage.