Associate Principal, AI Engineer

Location: Hybrid position requiring three days in office per week in Cedar Rapids, Denver, or Philadelphia, USA

Salary: $207,200–$259,000 annually, plus potential annual bonus.

Company

hirify.global is a financial services company providing insurance, retirement, investment, and employee benefit solutions as part of the Aegon group.

What you will do

• Enhance Aegon’s AWS Launchpad enterprise LLM gateway and related operational services.
• Support internal development teams with Launchpad platform onboarding.
• Build production-ready Gen AI and Agentic AI solutions using Python and AWS AgentCore.
• Translate complex business problems into well-defined project requirements and AI solutions.
• Lead AI development teams under supervision and deliver transformation initiatives using software engineering best practices.
• Contribute to AI governance, operational excellence, and organization-wide AI adoption.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, data science, or a related field.
• 10+ years of related experience, including at least 3 years of demonstrable end-to-end AI solution design experience.
• Strong Python skills for production-ready delivery and strong knowledge of AWS AI infrastructure and services.
• Deep understanding of Gen AI and agentic frameworks, including Strands SDK, LangChain, A2A, and MCP.
• Experience across the AI model lifecycle, including planning, training, deployment, and maintenance.
• Proficiency with Kubernetes and Docker, plus experience working with diverse stakeholders to deliver AI solutions.

Nice to have

• Experience in insurance or another regulated industry.
• Master’s degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, data science, or a related field.
• Experience building AI solutions with AWS AgentCore.
• Professional AI or cloud technology certifications.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative environment focused on innovation, continuous learning, and operational excellence.
• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, disability insurance, pension plan, and 401(k) match.
• Paid time off starting at 160 hours annually, paid holidays, and parental leave.
• Tuition reimbursement, career training, employee assistance, wellness, and backup care programs.
• Employee resource groups, inclusion and diversity programs, and volunteer-related benefits.
• Moderate travel to other offices and occasional work outside normal business hours may be required due to the global nature of the business.