Research Scientist (AI)

Location: San Francisco, United States; on-site

Annual target cash compensation: $210,000–$450,000, plus equity and bonus opportunities.

Company

hirify.global is an applied research lab developing data solutions and evaluation systems for foundation model development.

What you will do

• Design, validate, launch, and continuously improve benchmarks for frontier AI systems.
• Develop evaluations for agentic, coding, safety, and expert-domain AI applications.
• Analyze model capabilities and failure modes using experimental design and statistical methods.
• Build reproducible evaluation systems, including harnesses, graders, and benchmark infrastructure.
• Collaborate on model post-training and measure resulting performance gains.
• Communicate findings through benchmark reports, technical articles, and research papers.

Requirements

• Strong record of publishing benchmarks or research papers.
• Clear technical communication and scientific writing skills.
• Experience applying experimental rigor, including baselines, ablations, statistical validity, and contamination controls.
• Ability to take an ambiguous evaluation question through reproducible public release.
• Depth in agentic, coding, or safety evaluations, or applied machine learning in an expert domain.
• PhD in a related technical field.

Nice to have

• Research publications at leading conferences or peer-reviewed journals.
• Interest in multidisciplinary research combining AI, engineering, science, and expert-domain methods.

Culture & Benefits

• On-site work in San Francisco alongside experienced engineers and researchers.
• Medical, vision, and dental health insurance.
• 401(k) with employer match.
• Daily UberEats meal stipend and monthly wellness stipend.
• Commute costs covered.
• Equity and bonus opportunities.