Applied Research Role (AI)

Location: San Francisco, New York, London, or remote

Cash compensation: $150,000–$300,000 plus equity incentives

Company

hirify.global is building an open superintelligence stack for frontier AI research, including compute, environments, evaluations, secure sandboxes, training, and deployment infrastructure.

What you will do

• Own important open-source reinforcement learning, environment, evaluation, and agent systems.
• Build researcher-facing features for the training platform in collaboration with engineering and design.
• Develop APIs, examples, reference implementations, and technical explanations for useful research abstractions.
• Work with research users and external contributors to improve interfaces, inspectable code, and research artifacts.
• Help researchers move from environment ideas to credible evaluation and training runs.
• Turn internal agent and reinforcement learning abstractions into stable public interfaces and create contributor paths for environments, harnesses, algorithms, and integrations.

Requirements

• Experience owning open-source machine learning or developer-tool systems, research engineering, technical product work, or communities built around code and reproducible research.
• Hands-on experience building and debugging model-training, post-training, agent, evaluation, or closely related experimental loops.
• Strong experimental judgment, including meaningful baselines, careful trace inspection, failure attribution, and adapting direction when evidence changes.
• Strong Python skills and the ability to build artifacts that other researchers and engineers can run, inspect, and extend.
• Comfort owning ambiguous problems and keeping partners and teammates informed while resolving them.

Nice to have

• Publications, open-source systems, benchmarks, or shipped products demonstrating exceptional work.
• Examples of difficult work built, failures encountered, and how evidence changed the approach.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible work from San Francisco, New York, London, or remotely.
• Visa sponsorship and relocation support.
• Professional development budget.
• Team off-sites and conference attendance.
• Work directly with customers, users, research partners, and external contributors while maintaining a substantive research agenda.