Engineering Manager (AI/ML)

Location: Hybrid in Santa Clara, California; required in-office work on Mondays and Wednesdays each week

Salary: $250,000–$300,000 annual base salary, plus equity

Company

hirify.global helps fast-growing companies automate, simplify, and accelerate revenue through its go-to-market products.

What you will do

• Lead, hire, coach, and mentor the AI Products engineering team while raising its technical standards.
• Own the technical vision for the AI and agent platform, including evaluation infrastructure and reusable abstractions.
• Define AI and agent best practices and quality standards for non-deterministic AI and LLM systems.
• Stay hands-on for approximately half of the time by designing, reviewing, and shipping production code.
• Turn ambiguous go-to-market problems into production-ready AI features in partnership with product, design, and data.
• Own quality, reliability, delivery, and the model and LLM upgrade pipeline while balancing quality, latency, and cost.

Requirements

• 4+ years building and shipping ML or AI/LLM systems in production, including 3+ years managing or leading engineers.
• Experience building and scaling AI-powered product capabilities from 0 to 1 while remaining hands-on.
• Deep experience with evaluation and quality measurement for non-deterministic AI/LLM systems, including model selection and quality, latency, and cost tradeoffs.
• Strong, current Python skills with the ability to write and review production code.
• Applied AI experience, including building products on large language models and shaping an AI roadmap with product, design, and data.
• Ability to work from the Santa Clara office on Mondays and Wednesdays each week.

Nice to have

• Experience with Salesforce, data warehouses, or other large and messy enterprise data sources.
• Experience with Promptfoo, Braintrust, Langfuse, Inngest, or Temporal.
• Founder, founding-engineer, or early-engineer experience owning a product end to end.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work with regular in-office collaboration in Santa Clara.
• Professional growth opportunities with compensation progression as skills and contributions develop.
• Equity in addition to base salary.
• Strategic, hands-on work across AI products, agent capabilities, and go-to-market automation.