Senior Regional Player-Coach (AI)

Location: Full-time, in-person work from the New York City office; relocation support and visa sponsorship are available.

Salary: $150,000–$300,000 cash compensation plus equity incentives.

Company

hirify.global is building an open superintelligence stack combining compute, environments, evaluations, secure sandboxes, high-performance training, and deployment for frontier AI post-training.

What you will do

• Establish the New York Applied Research group through personally led research and external field programs.
• Shape customer and partner problems into research programs with clear owners, comparable evidence, and paths to shared capabilities.
• Lead high-stakes programs through environment design, baselines, post-training, evaluation, failure analysis, and deployment.
• Recruit and develop the founding New York researchers while setting technical and experimental standards.
• Provide cross-program technical direction and decide which results become shared research, open-source systems, or product capabilities.

Requirements

• Track record leading high-performing applied-research or research-engineering teams.
• Deep credibility in reinforcement learning, post-training, agents, evaluation, or machine learning systems.
• Exceptional recruiting judgment and experience with demanding external technical stakeholders.
• Hands-on experience building and debugging model-training, post-training, agent, evaluation, or closely adjacent experimental loops.
• Strong experimental judgment, including meaningful baselines, careful trace inspection, clear failure attribution, and willingness to change direction when evidence changes.
• Strong Python skills and the ability to build artifacts that other researchers and engineers can run, inspect, and extend.
• Ability to own ambiguous problems and keep partners and teammates current while resolving them.
• Willingness to remain directly involved in research, external programs, recruiting, and group development.

Nice to have

• Publications, open-source systems, benchmarks, or shipped products demonstrating exceptional work.

Culture & Benefits

• In-person work from the New York City office.
• Professional development budget.
• Team off-sites and conference attendance.
• Equity incentives.
• Visa sponsorship and relocation support.