Applied Machine Learning Engineer

Location: San Mateo or New York, United States

Salary: $160,000–$180,000 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

• Build and present AI technology demonstrations and proof-of-concepts for customers.
• Design, develop, and deploy end-to-end AI-powered applications tailored to customer needs.
• Contribute platform features, resolve bugs, and enable new machine learning models.
• Improve the performance, efficiency, and scalability of deployed models and applications.
• Work with customers from early engagements through proof-of-concepts and production deployments.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, completed recently or expected before the start date.
• Strong skills working with AI coding harnesses.
• Practical software engineering experience from internships, research, open-source contributions, or substantial personal projects.
• Hands-on experience building with LLMs or other machine learning models.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with an interest in working directly with customers.
• Comfort with ambiguity and a fast-moving environment.

Nice to have

• Experience fine-tuning models with supervised fine-tuning, RLHF, or RFT.
• Experience shipping full-stack or agentic applications end to end.
• Understanding of generative AI, machine learning principles, and cloud or enterprise infrastructure.
• Familiarity with inference serving, evaluation, or RAG systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Mentorship from a senior engineer and a structured ramp-up program.
• Opportunities to work on AI infrastructure, low-latency inference, and scalable model serving.
• Collaboration with engineers and AI researchers on production AI technology.
• Work in a fast-moving environment with significant ownership and customer impact.