Member of Technical Staff (AI Research)

Location: San Mateo or New York, United States

Salary: $200,000–$300,000 per year

Company

hirify.global provides a platform for building, training, and serving specialized AI models across text, image, embedding, audio, and multimodal workloads.

What you will do

• Conduct foundational research advancing the capabilities, efficiency, and reliability of LLMs and multimodal systems.
• Design, implement, and evaluate model architectures, training methods, and optimization techniques.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to transition research prototypes into production-grade systems.
• Analyze empirical results, identify performance bottlenecks, and improve model quality.
• Contribute ideas and research directions from doctoral work to the internal research agenda.

Requirements

• PhD completed within the last 6 months or expected by December 2026 in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Computational Physics, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• Research background in AI, machine learning, physics, or a related area, demonstrated through a dissertation, publications, or research projects.
• Experience solving analytical problems using analytical and quantitative approaches.
• Ability to communicate research to audiences with different backgrounds.
• Proficiency in Python, C/C++, or similar programming languages.
• Hands-on experience with PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow, or similar ML frameworks.

Nice to have

• First-author publications at leading peer-reviewed conferences or journals such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, or MLSys.
• Industry research internships or open-source contributions to ML systems, model training, or inference projects.
• Experience with large-scale model training, distributed systems, GPU kernel development, or inference optimization.
• Experience taking research code beyond the prototype stage.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on AI infrastructure, low-latency inference, and scalable model serving.
• Collaborate with experienced engineers and AI researchers on emerging technologies.
• Receive mentorship from a senior researcher and work on a real research problem from the beginning.
• See research models deployed in production for leading companies.