Staff Research Scientist, Intern - PhD Agentic AI

Location: US - Austin, TX; hybrid with at least 3 days in the office. Travel required 5–10% of the time.

Salary: $56.00–$63.00 per hour for US applicants.

Company

hirify.global is a global payments technology company developing infrastructure and services for consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities.

What you will do

• Conduct research to improve AI agent reliability, reduce hallucinations, and advance safety, security, and ethical alignment.
• Design efficiency techniques including model compression, quantization, fine-tuning, and inference optimization.
• Develop secure access-control and guardrail systems for responsible AI interactions.
• Investigate multi-agent architectures for secure and coordinated collaboration.
• Build tools and frameworks to benchmark agent safety, robustness, and performance.
• Prototype research ideas and contribute to publications, patents, and technical reports.

Requirements

• PhD student with an expected graduation date in December 2027 or later.
• Research experience in AI agents, AI safety, security, alignment, trustworthy AI, or reliable LLM systems.
• Experience with multi-agent systems, agent frameworks, planning, or evaluation techniques.
• Knowledge of hallucination reduction, factuality, guardrails, policy enforcement, or secure AI systems.
• Programming proficiency in Python, C++, Java, or a similar language.
• Strong research, communication, collaboration, analytical problem-solving, and innovation skills.

Nice to have

• Research record demonstrated through publications, patents, conference presentations, or technical contributions.
• Experience applying compression, quantization, fine-tuning, or inference optimization.

Culture & Benefits

• 12-week immersive internship with impactful research projects.
• Interactive workshops, learning sessions, and professional development opportunities.
• Collaboration with technology and product teams, academics, and governments.
• Social events and opportunities to build professional connections.
• Final presentation of project achievements and recommendations to hirify.global leaders.

Hiring process

• Internship concludes with a final presentation to hirify.global leaders.