Applied AI Research Engineer

Location: Remote within Romania

Company

hirify.global is a technology services company headquartered in Cluj-Napoca, with offices in Oradea and more than 1,200 IT professionals serving clients across retail, manufacturing, finance, and banking.

What you will do

• Explore emerging AI technologies and engineering patterns through experimentation and rapid prototyping.
• Formulate hypotheses, structure experiments, evaluate results, and turn findings into engineering recommendations.
• Help define and continuously evolve the organization-wide AI software development lifecycle.
• Assess AI technologies and model outputs, define evaluation criteria, and identify failure modes.
• Create documentation, reusable guidance, and recommendations for delivery teams and leadership.
• Collaborate with the AI rollout function and incorporate challenges from real project adoption.

Requirements

• Strong software engineering and architecture fundamentals, including APIs, distributed systems, testing, delivery practices, and maintainability.
• Hands-on experience with AI agents, agentic workflows, LLM APIs, and model integration.
• Practical experience evaluating and testing AI systems.
• Awareness of security, privacy, and responsible AI considerations.
• Experience with CI/CD, software delivery practices, observability, and monitoring.
• Strong R&D mindset, critical thinking, systems thinking, communication skills, and pragmatism.

Nice to have

• LLM-based application development and Retrieval-Augmented Generation.
• Tool or function calling and protocols such as MCP.
• API design and integration, data pipelines, and data management.
• Containers and cloud-native development.
• Experience with Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, .NET, or similar languages.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive, respectful, and merit-based workplace.
• Flexible approach to work-life integration.
• Medical benefits, gym support, and personalized fitness options.
• Team events, a Healthy Habits Club, and social wellbeing initiatives.
• Support for emotional wellbeing and connections across a hybrid community.