Staff Research Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Staff Research Engineer (AI): Responsible for building industry-leading conversational AI models that power hirify.global’s agent, and taking them all the way from idea to production with an accent on instruction following, retrieval, memory, and long-horizon task completion. Focus on optimizing for quality, efficiency, and user experience, integrating new models into production systems and setting technical direction for applied research and engineering.

Location: San Francisco. Hybrid work format

Salary: $350K – $475K

Company

hirify.global is the leading conversational AI platform empowering every brand to deliver concierge customer experience.

What you will do

• Lead research and engineering efforts to improve core conversational capabilities in production, including instruction following, retrieval, memory, and long-horizon task completion.
• Build and iterate on end-to-end models and pipelines that optimize for quality, efficiency, and user experience.
• Partner with platform and product engineers to integrate new models into production systems.
• Break down ambiguous research ideas into clear, iterative milestones and roadmaps.
• Mentor other researchers/engineers, set technical direction, and establish best practices for applied research and engineering.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in AI/ML engineering or research.
• Prior experience post-training and deploying LLMs in production environments.
• Fluency in Python and modern ML tooling (training, evaluation, data pipelines)
• Track record of taking research ideas from prototype → reliable, measurable production impact
• Ability to define a roadmap, break ambiguity into milestones, and lead cross-functional execution

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Take what you need vacation policy
• Daily lunches, dinners and snacks in the office to keep you at your best