Senior Software Engineer, AI and ML Platforms

Location: Hybrid position based out of the San Jose, California site, United States

Salary: $132,400–$217,600 annually

Company

hirify.global develops software and instrumentation solutions that help scientists generate accurate, reproducible biological data for life sciences and clinical diagnostics.

What you will do

• Lead the design and development of cloud-native, microservices-based backend systems for software products.
• Build and deploy AI-powered services, including LLM assistants, recommendations, and automation workflows.
• Develop scalable REST and event-driven APIs integrating AI services with instrument software and customer-facing applications.
• Architect RAG pipelines over scientific, operational, and customer data.
• Establish MLOps practices for model versioning, evaluation, monitoring, retraining, and reliable production operation.
• Drive architecture, reliability, observability, security, performance, documentation, code quality, and mentoring across engineering and scientific teams.

Requirements

• B.S. with 7+ years of relevant experience, M.S. with 5+ years, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Strong proficiency in Python, Java, or a similar backend language, with hands-on microservices experience.
• Experience designing and operating cloud-native SaaS platforms and RESTful APIs using FastAPI, Flask, Spring Boot, or similar frameworks.
• Experience integrating AI/ML or LLM services into real-world applications and implementing information-retrieval or ML algorithms.
• Understanding of distributed systems, asynchronous processing, service-to-service communication, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong computer-science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithmic complexity, and system design.

Nice to have

• Experience with AWS or Azure, Kubernetes, and multi-service deployment strategies.
• Experience managing the ML lifecycle, including feature engineering, training, validation, deployment, and maintenance.
• Experience with vector databases such as pgvector, FAISS, or Pinecone and RAG frameworks such as LangChain or LlamaIndex.
• Exposure to scientific software, laboratory instrumentation, regulated GxP environments, or multi-tenant SaaS licensing.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life, disability, pet, legal, and identity protection insurance benefits begin on day one.
• Benefits include 401(k), ESPP, HSA, FSA, dependent care FSA, paid holidays, paid time off, and paid parental leave.
• Mentorship, training and development, tuition reimbursement, and promotional opportunities support career growth.
• Employee resource groups, volunteer paid time off, employee events, and charity drives support an inclusive workplace.
• hirify.global fosters empowerment and innovation and is an E-Verify employer in the United States.