AI Operations Engineer

Location: 100% remote within the United States

Salary: $150,000–$165,000 annually

Company

hirify.global is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States.

What you will do

• Build and operate large-scale data systems powering AI training and evaluation pipelines.
• Develop ingestion and transformation workflows across diverse data modalities.
• Ensure data quality, lineage, versioning, reproducibility, and reliable delivery to training jobs.
• Operate petabyte-scale storage and pipeline systems for high-throughput accelerator-based training.
• Apply testing, CI/CD, code review, and strong software engineering practices.
• Collaborate cross-functionally and communicate technical decisions clearly.

Requirements

• 6+ years of data engineering experience, including significant work supporting ML or AI workloads.
• Strong proficiency in Python and at least one JVM or systems language.
• Deep experience with Spark, Ray, or Beam.
• Hands-on experience operating petabyte-scale storage and pipeline systems.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, data modeling, and storage formats.
• U.S. work authorization is required; new H-1B visa petitions cannot be sponsored.

Nice to have

• Experience with large-scale multimodal datasets.
• Familiarity with data quality tooling and dataset evaluation methodology.
• Exposure to privacy-preserving data systems and regulated data handling.
• Open-source contributions to data infrastructure projects.
• Experience supporting frontier model training pipelines.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time direct W-2 employment.
• Career growth opportunities within an established organization.
• Remote work arrangement within the United States.