Senior Staff Deep Learning Engineer (AI)

Location: Melbourne, Australia; on-site

Company

hirify.global is a venture-backed defense-tech company developing intelligent systems, including Hivemind autonomy software, aircraft, and simulation technologies.

What you will do

• Research, design, and implement state-of-the-art perception capabilities for autonomous and non-autonomous platforms.
• Take deep-learning solutions from initial concepts through field deployment.
• Deploy the AI stack to edge devices and solve real-time perception challenges.
• Collaborate with deep learning engineers to architect tools that scale deep learning operations.
• Track research literature and contribute to R&D projects.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of industry experience delivering deep-learning solutions for computer vision problems.
• Strong knowledge of convolutional neural networks and/or transformers for classification, recognition, or segmentation.
• Experience with recent foundation models and novel deep learning architectures.
• Experience using TensorFlow, Caffe, PyTorch, or similar frameworks.
• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Ability to work on-site in Melbourne, Australia.

Nice to have

• Publications in leading computer vision, artificial intelligence, or machine learning conferences and journals.
• C++ and/or Python development experience.
• Experience with object detection, target tracking, SLAM, 3D reconstruction, camera calibration, behavior analysis, vision-language models, or large multimodal models.
• Experience deploying and optimizing deep learning models in embedded production environments, including pruning and quantization.
• MLOps experience and experience mentoring junior engineers or researchers.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on defense technology designed to support service members and civilians.
• Contribute to products used in real-world operations worldwide.
• Employment is subject to a cleared background and possible reference check.
• Equal opportunity workplace with reasonable accommodation available for disabilities or special needs.