Software Engineer (AI Safety)

Location: San Jose R&D; fully in-person schedule up to 5 days a week

Salary: $187,040–$359,720 annually, with potential bonuses, incentives, and restricted stock units.

Company

hirify.global operates data privacy, cybersecurity, trust and safety, and content ecosystem safeguards for US users and applications.

What you will do

• Design and scale assurance platforms that orchestrate AI safety checks and produce auditable recommendation signals.
• Build low-latency circuit breakers and middleware to enforce safety guardrails in recommendation paths.
• Develop distributed systems for data inventory, lineage, residual scanning, and right-to-be-forgotten workflows.
• Integrate toxicity classifiers, LLM evaluators, and other safety models into backend services.
• Create dashboards, alerting engines, and risk telemetry for recommendation and GPAI systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• 2+ years of backend engineering experience with Go, Java, or C++, with Go preferred.
• Experience with high-volume data ecosystems such as Hive, Spark, Kafka, Flink, or Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of database design, SQL, and NoSQL internals, including physical data storage and deletion.
• Ability to work fully in person in San Jose up to 5 days per week.

Nice to have

• Experience in privacy engineering, GDPR/CCPA compliance, or data governance.
• Familiarity with data cataloging or lineage tools such as Apache Atlas or Amundsen.
• Knowledge of encryption at rest and in transit and IAM frameworks.
• Experience managing data deletion across thousands of distributed nodes.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance from day one.
• 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and life insurance.
• Wellbeing benefits, 10 paid holidays, 10 paid sick days, and paid personal time.
• Inclusive workplace focused on curiosity, humility, resilience, continuous learning, and meaningful impact.
• Reasonable accommodations are available during recruitment for protected needs.