Research Scientist (Multimodal AI)

Location: Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Salary: $122,000–$181,000 per year, plus bonus, equity, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global builds social and immersive technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses.

What you will do

• Design multimodal architectures that combine vision, language, and temporal signals for human understanding.
• Develop and train Vision-Language Models for visual question answering, image-text reasoning, and grounded human-centric understanding.
• Build video foundation models for temporal reasoning, action synthesis, and long-form video synthesis.
• Research generative techniques for human-centric video, motion, and multimodal content creation.
• Run experiments across vision, language, and video benchmarks, analyze failure modes, and improve model accuracy and generalization.
• Contribute to the full research lifecycle, including problem formulation, dataset curation, model development, and evaluation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience; the degree must be completed before joining.
• 2+ years of experience in multimodal AI research, including Vision-Language Models, video understanding, or human-centric AI systems.
• 2+ years of experience implementing and training large-scale neural networks with PyTorch and transformer-based architectures.
• Experience designing experiments and quantitatively evaluating multimodal models across vision, language, and video benchmarks.
• Production-quality or research-quality Python coding experience for multimodal AI applications.

Nice to have

• Experience developing or fine-tuning Vision-Language Models for human understanding.
• Experience with video foundation models, temporal transformers, or large-scale video pretraining.
• Published multimodal AI research at venues such as CVPR, ICCV, or NeurIPS.
• Experience with diffusion models, GANs, or autoregressive models for video or motion generation.

Culture & Benefits

• Bonus, equity, and employee benefits are provided in addition to base compensation.
• Work contributes to augmented reality, virtual reality, and the next generation of social technology.
• Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans.