Staff Applied Scientist (AI)

TL;DR

Staff Applied Scientist (AI): Designing and prototyping intelligent systems for AI-native observability, focusing on scaling with data growth, new query mechanisms, and rethinking telemetry storage. Focus on integrating symbolic reasoning, formal methods, and generative AI to create a platform for AI agents to act in live environments.

Location: We operate as a hybrid workplace. Office locations: Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Denver, Colorado, USA; New York, New York, USA.

Salary: $234,000–$300,000 USD (yearly)

Company

hirify.global is a global SaaS business focused on breaking down silos and solving complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation and infrastructure monitoring.

What you will do

• Design and prototype intelligent systems for AI-native observability.
• Lead efforts to apply reinforcement learning and hybrid approaches to infrastructure decision-making.
• Collaborate with AI researchers and platform engineers on experimentation loops and verifiers for LLM outputs.
• Explore emerging AI paradigms like AI compilers and runtime-aware prompt engineering.
• Help define the direction of BitsEvolve, hirify.global’s optimization agent.
• Partner with product and platform teams to translate scientific advances into measurable improvements.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in systems engineering, database internals, or infrastructure research in a production environment.
• Strong software engineering foundation in C++, Rust, Go, or Python.
• Deep expertise in query optimization, data center scheduling, compiler design, reinforcement learning, or distributed systems design.
• Experience applying search, planning, or learning techniques to solve real-world optimization problems.
• Hypothesis-driven approach to designing experiments and evaluation loops.
• Excited by systems that learn, adapt, and improve over time.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to build and use tools for software engineers.
• Significant influence on product direction and business impact.
• Work with skilled, knowledgeable, and collaborative teammates.
• Competitive global benefits including healthcare, dental, parental planning, mental health, 401(k) plan, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and discounted employee stock purchase plan.
• Continuous professional development.