Senior AI Engineer

Location: United States · Remote

Compensation: $170,000–$340,000 annually

Company

hirify.global is a specialist executive search firm focused on recruiting leaders who help organizations navigate AI transformation.

What you will do

• Design, build, and ship AI/ML systems and features in production, owning quality and performance across the full lifecycle.
• Select and evaluate ML frameworks, model architectures, and deployment strategies based on business requirements and technical constraints.
• Partner with data scientists and product teams to turn research and prototypes into reliable, scalable systems.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and observability to track model performance, detect drift, and respond to production issues.
• Integrate LLMs, embeddings, and other AI/ML components into application workflows while managing latency and cost trade-offs.
• Lead code reviews, mentor junior engineers, and collaborate with infrastructure and platform teams to optimize compute resources and ensure reproducible, auditable AI pipelines.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2–3 years building and deploying ML/AI systems in production.
• Strong Python, software architecture, and debugging skills, with hands-on experience using ML frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow and MLOps tooling.
• Ability to own systems end-to-end, from problem definition and model selection through training, evaluation, and monitoring.
• Production experience with LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, or fine-tuning.
• Ability to explain technical trade-offs and AI system behavior to product, business, and non-technical audiences.
• Track record of shipping features or systems on schedule and collaborating effectively across teams in fast-moving environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent remote work for candidates based in the United States.
• Opportunity pipeline covering AI transformation roles across Professional Services, Technology, Financial Services, and Healthcare.
• Work involving production AI systems, LLM tooling, scalable infrastructure, and cross-functional collaboration.

Hiring process

• This posting is for future opportunities rather than one specific open role.
• Applications are added to the hirify.global candidate network for consideration when relevant roles become available.