Lead Of Applied AI

Location: San Francisco, CA, United States

Annual salary: $225,000–$320,000 USD, plus benefits, potential equity, and potential bonus.

Company

hirify.global provides an AI-enabled intelligence platform that helps public safety organizations, government agencies, and private-sector institutions turn disconnected data into operational insights.

What you will do

• Lead the design and deployment of customer-facing AI features across the intelligence platform.
• Translate operational problems into deployable AI-powered solutions and integrate them into core workflows.
• Guide fine-tuning and reinforcement learning strategies, selecting between classical machine learning, deep learning, and LLM-based approaches.
• Shape training and inference pipelines, model serving, versioning, rollback, and integration with real-time and batch data systems.
• Define evaluation frameworks, quality standards, monitoring, drift detection, and failure analysis for deployed models.
• Build and lead the Applied AI/ML team while setting technical direction and partnering with executive leadership on AI strategy.

Requirements

• Experience shipping AI-powered features into production, ideally in enterprise or mission-critical environments.
• Hands-on experience with model fine-tuning for LLMs or deep learning models.
• Practical experience with reinforcement learning.
• Experience designing and operating AI/ML infrastructure.
• Direct ownership of model evaluation, experimentation, and quality measurement.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals at a lead level.

Nice to have

• Experience with large-scale or real-time data platforms.
• Experience in public sector, security, healthcare, finance, or another domain where trust, explainability, and reliability are important.
• Previous experience leading software engineering teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on production AI used in high-consequence environments.
• Benefits package included.
• Potential equity and bonus, depending on eligibility.
• Inclusive workplace and equal employment opportunity environment.