Senior Applied Scientist (AI)

TL;DR

Senior Applied Scientist (AI): Leading science roadmap for grounding in AI applications, including retrieval, re-ranking, attribution, and reasoning. Focus on designing and evolving state-of-the-art retrieval and RAG orchestration across documents, tables, code, and images to reduce hallucinations and increase user trust.

Location: Beijing, China

Company

hirify.global's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

What you will do

• Own the science roadmap for grounding, driving initiatives from problem framing to production impact.
• Build citation and provenance systems to reduce hallucinations and increase user trust.
• Advance tool-augmented grounding through schema-aware retrieval and real-time connectors.
• Partner with platform engineering to productionize models with scalable inference and privacy-compliant systems.
• Mentor applied scientists and data scientists, establishing best practices in experimentation and error analysis.
• Communicate clearly through design documentation, progress updates, and presentations to executives and customers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree and 4+ years related experience OR Master’s Degree and 3+ years OR Doctorate and 1+ year in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, or related field.
• Minimum of 4 years of hands-on experience designing and building search, retrieval, or ranking systems.
• Proven track record of shipping LLM-powered or Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems into production environments.
• Solid coding skills and a solid foundation in machine learning.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity and deliver measurable impact in fast-paced settings.

Nice to have

• Master’s Degree and 6+ years OR Doctorate and 3+ years related experience in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, or related field.
• Demonstrated expertise in information retrieval with publications in top-tier conferences or journals.
• Hands-on experience in large language model (LLM) development.
• Proven track record in optimizing LLM inference or active contributions to open-source frameworks.

Culture & Benefits

• Growth mindset and inclusive collaboration.
• Culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
• Employees within a 50-mile commute of a designated hirify.global office in the U.S. or 25-mile commute of a non-U.S. are expected to work from the office at least four days per week.