AI Platform Engineer

Location: 100% remote within the Continental United States

Salary: $130,000–$180,000 annually, based on experience.

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

• Design, build, and maintain scalable AI inference and model-serving platforms for production environments.
• Architect highly available cloud-native infrastructure for LLMs, foundation models, and machine learning services.
• Optimize inference latency, throughput, GPU utilization, memory management, workload orchestration, and request routing.
• Implement model deployment, versioning, rollback, lifecycle management, monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting.
• Build caching, API gateway, authentication, authorization, security, and high-availability solutions.
• Collaborate with AI researchers, ML engineers, DevOps teams, and software engineers while mentoring engineers and driving infrastructure optimization.

Requirements

• Must be based in the Continental United States.
• 10+ years of professional experience in distributed systems, infrastructure, cloud platforms, or machine learning platform engineering.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or a related technical discipline.
• Strong Python skills and proficiency in Go, Rust, or C++.
• Experience with LLM serving, model inference optimization, vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, Triton Inference Server, Ray Serve, or similar frameworks.
• Expertise in Kubernetes, Docker, cloud platforms, CUDA, NVIDIA GPUs, distributed systems, networking, observability, and security.

Nice to have

• Experience with multi-region AI platforms and globally distributed inference services.
• Knowledge of quantization, pruning, compression, speculative decoding, KV cache optimization, and mixed-precision inference.
• Experience with MLOps, GitOps, Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, and CI/CD automation.
• Familiarity with Istio, Linkerd, API gateways, event-driven architectures, FinOps, and enterprise AI governance.
• Open-source contributions, technical publications, patents, conference presentations, or experience supporting large-scale AI APIs.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time direct W2 employment.
• Career growth within an established technology consulting and software development organization.
• Work remotely within the Continental United States.
• U.S. citizens, Green Card holders, EAD holders, and H-1B transfer candidates are eligible to apply.