Applied Scientist (AI Evaluation and Data Strategy)

Location: Remote from the United States

Salary: $160,000–$170,000 per year, plus eligibility for an annual performance bonus.

Company

hirify.global is a location data and technology platform company that helps cities manage infrastructure, businesses optimize assets, and drivers navigate safely.

What you will do

• Define evaluation strategies, metrics, test sets, and release gates for advanced AI, vision, and perception capabilities.
• Build reproducible evaluation pipelines covering model quality, robustness, controllability, coverage, and downstream utility.
• Analyze model outputs and artifacts to identify failure patterns that aggregate metrics miss.
• Design dataset audits, gap analyses, sampling strategies, and targeted data acquisition or generation loops.
• Partner with scientists and engineers on experiment design, benchmarking, and statistically sound comparisons.
• Communicate evidence, tradeoffs, and model-readiness recommendations to technical and product stakeholders.

Requirements

• Strong experience evaluating machine-learning, computer-vision, multimodal, or generative-AI systems.
• Advanced Python and SQL skills with experience building scalable analysis or evaluation workflows.
• Strong foundations in statistics, experimental design, error analysis, and model validation.
• Ability to turn ambiguous quality questions into measurable criteria and actionable decisions.
• Ability to inspect model outputs deeply, identify patterns, and explain required improvements.
• Technical leadership skills and the ability to influence data science, engineering, and product teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with spatial, geospatial, sensor, map, trajectory, or simulation data.
• Experience evaluating generative models, temporal consistency, or perception systems.
• Familiarity with data-centric AI, active learning, synthetic data, or human-evaluation programs.
• Graduate degree in a quantitative or technical discipline.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for US-based employees.
• Retirement savings plans.
• Paid time off and leave policies.
• Background verification is required as part of the employment process.