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.