Staff Ml Engineer (Ai)

TL;DR

Staff Ml Engineer (AI): Develop and optimize semantic search and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems for a startup discovery engine with an accent on improving search precision, recall, and personalized real-time responses. Focus on designing embedding models, ranking pipelines, and cross-team integration to enhance venture capital investment workflows.

Location: New York, USA

Salary: $210,000–$280,000 + Equity

Company

hirify.global focused on building a startup discovery engine that powers venture capital investment workflows with AI-driven search and research tools.

What you will do

• Lead strategy and roadmap to improve semantic search precision and recall outcomes.
• Design and build systems for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and personalized search leveraging user data.
• Partner with infrastructure teams to generalize search and RAG architecture for platform-wide use.
• Drive integration of search features across product engineering teams.

Requirements

• Location: Must be based in New York or able to work onsite.
• 5+ years of experience as a machine learning engineer.
• Proven experience optimizing semantic search, embeddings, vector stores, or ranking pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with LLM-powered search, RAG implementations, or agentic workflows.
• Strong systems-level thinking and experience designing data models and indexing strategies.

Culture & Benefits

• Top-tier health, dental, and vision insurance with 100% premium coverage.
• 401k matching program.
• Free lunch and monthly team dinners in office.
• Commuter benefits.

Hiring process

• Recruiter screening (20 mins).
• Technical screening (45 mins).
• Jam session (2 hours).
• Behavioral interviews with Head of Engineering and CEO (30 mins each).
• Reference checks.