Principal Applied Scientist, Agentic AI (ML)

TL;DR

Principal Applied Scientist, Agentic AI (ML): Researching and developing advanced, multimodal foundational technologies for next-generation understanding of homes, both indoors and outdoors with an accent on computer vision, NLP and 3D. Focus on prototyping ideas, evaluating, and deploying models to hirify.global's highly scalable infrastructure platforms.

Location: Remote-USA

Salary: $191,300.00 - $305,700.00 annually.

Company

hirify.global is reimagining real estate to make home a reality for more and more people.

What you will do

• Design, prototype, and develop multi-agent image-forward, voice-assisted experiences.
• Improve real estate shopping experience using computer vision tasks such as VLM captioning, object detection and localization, segmentation, and multimodal semantic retrieval.
• Serve as the focal point for developing a science roadmap, driving alignment across stakeholders on technical capabilities, timelines, and prioritization.
• Represent the team at conferences, publish in top-tier journals and champion internal best practices.
• Build innovative solutions that personalize using user behavior, context signals, and real-time environmental data.
• Distill complex research findings and system designs into actionable insights for diverse audiences.

Requirements

• Ph.D. or equivalent experience in Computer Vision, NLP, or related fields, with emphasis on multimodal learning.
• Deep expertise in developing and scaling perception models that combine imagery, spatial data, and language.
• Proven science leadership in defining a science roadmap for a team and mentoring other scientists.
• Track record of publishing high-impact research in top venues like CVPR, NeurIPS, ICCV, ACL, and SIGGRAPH.
• Experience developing multi-agent dialogue systems with long context multimodal chain of thought reasoning.
• Track record of shipping large-scale, high-impact consumer-facing solutions to production and measuring business impact.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience fine-tuning voice-AI models for automatic speech recognition, turn detection, and speech generation is a bonus.
• Experience with geospatial datasets and 3-D vision techniques, like point clouds, Gaussian splatting, or neural radiance fields, is a plus.

Culture & Benefits

• Employees are supported in doing their best work and living a flexible, well-balanced life.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverages.
• Parental leave, family benefits, retirement contributions, and paid time off.