Senior/Staff Applied AI Researcher, Growth (AI)

Location: Palo Alto, California, United States

Salary: $213,000–$285,000 USD base salary; bonus and equity may also be provided for eligible roles.

Company

hirify.global is a direct-to-consumer retail company delivering quality apparel, accessories, home goods, and other essentials through a manufacturer-to-consumer model supported by proprietary technology, AI, and analytics.

What you will do

• Architect and own end-to-end multi-agent event streams and automated systems for brand category scaling.
• Build scalable service-layer software that integrates large language models and prompt validation tools into real-time operational workflows.
• Design automated content loops and multimodal asset pipelines for marketing copy, graphics, and video layouts.
• Build decisioning pipelines that use data matrices to optimize asset deployment across advertising platforms.
• Establish confidence limits, prompt versioning, fallback, and rollback frameworks for safe LLM operations.
• Partner with Product Management, Data Science, and Engineering to define catalog schemas and reduce ingestion and data-latency bottlenecks.

Requirements

• 8+ years of technical experience, including 1–2 years of corporate or industry experience.
• Expert-level Python and SQL skills, with advanced LLM integration and data serialization experience.
• Ability to independently solve ambiguous algorithmic and statistical optimization problems.
• Demonstrated experience shipping production software and measuring data-driven revenue and operational outcomes.
• Experience collaborating with Data Science, Data Analytics, Machine Learning, Product Management, and Engineering teams.

Nice to have

• Experience building developer-velocity extensions or generative asset platforms in DTC, retail, or e-commerce.
• Familiarity with advertising networks, performance marketing data structures, programmatic bidding, or real-time event-driven architectures.
• Master’s or PhD in computer science, mathematics, statistics, physics, or another highly quantitative field.

Culture & Benefits

• Mission-driven work focused on making high-quality essentials more accessible and sustainable.
• Fast-paced environment with an emphasis on challenging conventional thinking and solving difficult problems.
• Opportunity to take ownership and shape business direction regardless of role or seniority.
• Bonus and equity may be available for eligible roles.
• Employment is contingent on successful completion of a background check.