Applied Scientist III (AI)

Location: New York City office in the Financial District; in-office work required three days per week on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

Salary: $158,000–$190,000 annual base compensation, plus equity eligibility and benefits.

Company

hirify.global applies clinical metrics, healthcare data, and algorithmic systems to help members find higher-quality, lower-cost care.

What you will do

• Design, ship, and iterate production algorithmic systems from problem framing through launch and measurement.
• Translate healthcare and business constraints into objectives, tradeoffs, decision frameworks, and evaluation metrics.
• Select and apply machine learning, optimization, heuristics, expert systems, or hybrid approaches based on the problem.
• Build provider tiering algorithms that optimize geographic access and total-cost-of-care savings.
• Fine-tune and productionize an LLM-based primary care experience with evaluation harnesses, guardrails, and quality monitoring.
• Develop member engagement models using claims data and in-app behavior to select effective communication channels and timing.

Requirements

• 2+ years of industry experience as an Applied Scientist, Machine Learning Engineer, Research Scientist, or equivalent advanced degree.
• Strong applied problem-solving skills, including metric definition, solution validation, and delivery against measurable outcomes.
• Strong judgment in choosing among statistical models, machine learning, heuristics, optimization, and simpler algorithmic methods.
• Ability to prototype quickly, understand model-dependent data, communicate clearly with senior stakeholders, and review code and analyses.
• Experience or ability to work with Python, SQL, AWS, Snowflake, pandas, XGBoost, PyTorch, Hugging Face, and modern LLM tooling.
• Ability to work from the New York City office three days per week on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on AI and healthcare reform problems with direct impact on healthcare outcomes.
• High ownership, autonomy, urgency, and individual accountability within a mission-driven team.
• Consistent coaching and opportunities to develop through challenging, ambitious work.
• Flexible paid time off, medical, dental, and vision plan options.
• 401(k) with company match, flexible spending accounts, and Teladoc Health benefits.