Lead Data Scientist (AI)

TL;DR

Lead Data Scientist (AI): Designing and owning explainable, decision-ready scoring frameworks for an AI-native risk platform with an accent on entity resolution, ML/AI feature integration, and governance standards. Focus on building models that clearly explain changes, defining evaluation strategies, and scaling the data science function.

Location: 100% Remote Work within the European Union

Company

hirify.global is a digital solutions provider specializing in technology strategy, software engineering, and product development across various industries, including financial services and media.

What you will do

• Design and own explainable, decision-ready scoring frameworks that support executive use cases.
• Build models that clearly explain changes, why, and with what evidence, including confidence and uncertainty.
• Lead entity resolution across licensed news, social, and broadcast/video data.
• Define evaluation standards, run disciplined experiments, and partner with Product and Engineering to bring ML/AI features safely into production.
• Establish and uphold production and governance standards, including monitoring, drift detection, and responsible AI practices.
• Lead cross-functional delivery and help scale the team through mentoring and hiring.

Requirements

• 7+ years in applied Data Science / ML, with multiple production deployments in a commercial SaaS environment.
• Proven experience leading cross-functional teams to deliver production-ready ML/AI systems.
• Strong grounding in classification/scoring/ranking, NLP (and/or LLM applications), statistics, evaluation, and experimentation.
• Demonstrated ability to build explainable systems, focusing on transparency, evidence, and user trust.
• Experience designing evaluation strategies, including labeled datasets, human-in-the-loop review, and monitoring.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity with high ownership and high pace.

Nice to have

• Deep experience with entity resolution / record linkage at scale (probabilistic matching, embeddings, graph-based approaches).
• Experience building for regulated / high-governance contexts (financial services).
• LLM evaluation and reliability methods (prompt eval, retrieval eval, hallucination mitigation, guardrails).
• Computer vision / multimodal experience, especially around authenticity or manipulation detection.

Culture & Benefits

• 100% Remote Work with a monthly WFH allowance.
• Established career development program with 360º feedback and career progression guidance.
• Allocated time and resources for tech training, including online courses, English classes, books, conferences, and events.
• Mentoring Program for both mentors and mentees.
• Access to the hirify.global Wellbeing Hub (Kara Connect), offering sessions with mental health professionals, nutritionists, physiotherapists, and fitness coaches.
• Multicultural working environment with organized tech events, webinars, parties, and online team-building games.