Research Lead (AI Agents)

Location: On-site in San Jose, California, United States. The role is fully in-person, and relocation support is available for candidates moving to San Jose.

Company

hirify.global builds hardware, software, racks, and manufacturing systems for frontier AI inference, with a focus on throughput and latency.

What you will do

• Own the research agenda for self-improving agentic systems and prioritize the highest-impact bottlenecks.
• Work with domain engineers across ASIC development, inference, and supercomputing to understand workflows and convert agent failures into research questions.
• Develop long-running task systems covering memory, context management, tool use, planning, and multi-agent coordination.
• Build evaluations for correctness, reliability, and efficiency, and verify that improvements transfer to production.
• Train custom models with supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, and distillation using execution trajectories and failure analysis.
• Scale experiments to hundreds or thousands of concurrent agents while maintaining reproducibility, observability, and compute-cost control.

Requirements

• Strong research judgment and a record of turning ambiguous problems into clear hypotheses, experiments, and useful systems.
• Excellent engineering ability across research exploration, agent experimentation, low-level debugging, and production execution.
• Experience building agents for complex, multi-step tasks involving context, memory, tools, evaluation, and failure recovery.
• Hands-on experience with LLM post-training, including supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning.
• Experience making meaningful progress under compute and data constraints.
• Ability to set technical direction and collaborate closely with domain experts.

Nice to have

• Experience with ASIC design or verification, accelerator kernels, inference systems, or large-scale compute infrastructure.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage.
• $500 monthly credit for waiving medical benefits.
• $2,500 monthly housing subsidy for employees living within walking distance of the office.
• Relocation support for moves to San Jose, wellness benefits, and daily lunch and dinner at the office.
• Unlimited compute budget subject to return-on-investment justification.
• Fully in-person collaboration across research and engineering disciplines.