Founding AI Engineer (AI)

Location: Remote

Company

hirify.global is building a secure, efficient, and privacy-centric platform for exchanging AI training data.

What you will do

• Partner with the GM, Solutions Lead, Product, Engineering, Data Lab, and early customers to define the technical needs and strategy of a new vertical.
• Build the first production-grade MVP of reusable infrastructure, integrations, workflows, and tooling on top of the core platform.
• Lead initial customer engagements end-to-end, from technical scoping and delivery through post-launch support.
• Make architectural decisions about platform capabilities versus vertical-specific tooling.
• Translate customer requirements into robust, maintainable systems and create a technical playbook for future FDEs.
• Identify repeatable patterns and infrastructure gaps, then help productize proven capabilities in collaboration with Product and Engineering.

Requirements

• 3+ years of engineering experience, including meaningful 0→1 work as a founding engineer, early technical lead, or builder in an ambiguous environment.
• Strong engineering generalist skills with a backend and data orientation.
• Hands-on experience with Python and SQL.
• Ability to work across infrastructure, application logic, and data systems.
• Strong technical judgment, written and verbal communication, and the ability to work with senior technical and business stakeholders.
• Ability to independently scope technical customer requirements and turn them into concrete execution plans.

Nice to have

• Founding engineer experience at a successful startup.
• Experience extending an existing platform into a new domain or use case.
• Experience turning customer-specific work into reusable infrastructure or product capabilities.
• Familiarity with ML, NLP, or LLM-based systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Lean, fast-moving, high-trust environment focused on velocity and impact.
• Autonomy to work from first principles, operate in ambiguity, and own outcomes.
• Culture based on integrity, resourcefulness, resilience, kindness, candor, collaboration, and accountability.
• Opportunity to shape a new business line and establish technical foundations for future customer engagements and hires.