Director, Head of Software Engineering (AI)

Location: Falls Church, Virginia, United States

Base salary: $130,000–$210,000 per year, with performance-based bonuses and additional benefits.

Company

hirify.global is a large general contractor building construction and business technology capabilities for project teams and jobsites nationwide.

What you will do

• Design, launch, and lead an AI-native, agentic engineering practice, defining its operating model, team structure, and software development lifecycle.
• Establish standards and guardrails for AI coding agents, prompt and context engineering, human-in-the-loop review, automated testing, and evaluation.
• Select and evolve the AI development toolchain, including coding agents, LLM platforms, orchestration frameworks, and integrations.
• Recruit engineers and engineering leaders while creating training, enablement programs, career paths, and succession depth.
• Implement lean agile delivery practices based on small batches, rapid iteration, continuous integration and deployment, and measurable outcomes.
• Partner with executive and operational leaders to identify opportunities for custom software, automation, and agentic workflows while championing responsible AI and data stewardship.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field; an advanced degree is preferred.
• 12+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading engineering teams or organizations.
• Hands-on experience with AI-enabled and agentic development, AI coding agents and assistants, LLM APIs, agent frameworks, orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation, and evaluation practices.
• Experience recruiting strong engineers and training developers in new tools, methods, and ways of working.
• Strong grounding in cloud-native architecture, APIs and integration, CI/CD, DevSecOps, test automation, security, quality, and compliance.
• Executive communication, product judgment, financial and vendor management, and experience managing platform and tooling ecosystems.

Nice to have

• Experience building an engineering team, practice, or product organization from scratch.
• Experience delivering software for field-based or operational users in construction, engineering, manufacturing, or logistics.
• Advanced degree in a relevant field.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to establish a new AI-enabled engineering function with an experimentation-oriented culture.
• Premium health care coverage including vision and dental.
• Employer-matched 401(k).
• Wellness reimbursement program, paid holidays, paid time off, and other voluntary benefits and leave types.
• Performance-based bonuses and a focus on responsible AI, security, and compliance.