Engineering Manager (AI Infrastructure)

Location: Hybrid in Palo Alto, California, United States

Salary: $250,000–$340,000 per year, plus equity and a discretionary bonus

Company

hirify.global is building a vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform spanning capital, GPU compute clusters, and software.

What you will do

• Lead a platform engineering capability team through technical direction, design reviews, code reviews, delivery ownership, and people management.
• Design and build platform layers for compute, storage, control-plane services, APIs, networking, confidential computing, or customer-facing infrastructure.
• Translate product requirements into sequenced technical work, communicate trade-offs, and represent platform engineering in roadmap planning.
• Partner with bring-up and security engineering teams to turn operational issues into scalable features and remediate security findings.
• Own reliability, observability, security, interface, and versioning standards for shipped services.
• Handle complex engineering work directly, run post-mortems, and close structural gaps after incidents.

Requirements

• 5+ years of cloud platform or infrastructure engineering experience, including at least 2 years leading an engineering team.
• Strong production backend or systems programming experience; working languages include Python, Go, and Rust.
• Deep production Kubernetes experience covering cluster operations, CNI networking, scheduling, and workload management.
• Experience with GPU infrastructure, including provisioning, resource allocation, and exposing capacity through a platform or API.
• Strong networking fundamentals, including L2/L3, VLANs, overlay networks, and multi-tenant isolation.
• Experience designing, operating, and versioning production control-plane services and APIs, with security awareness and proven people-management skills.

Nice to have

• AI-assisted development and agent-assisted workflows, including agentic CLI tools, MCP, skills, or APIs.
• Confidential computing technologies such as TEEs, AMD SEV, Intel TDX, or Confidential Containers.
• SaaS or PaaS layers built on IaaS, RDMA, InfiniBand, RoCE, serverless, or inference-serving infrastructure.
• Experience working across distributed teams and time zones.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work environment based in Palo Alto.
• Competitive compensation based on role contribution and experience.
• Equity participation in hirify.global.
• Retirement or pension contributions, health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits.
• Generous annual vacation allowance and support for work-life balance.