Research Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Research Engineer (AI): Researching and developing cutting-edge machine learning models for video understanding and generation, contributing to Veo and Gemini. Focus on applying research ideas to high-impact real-world problems, including prototyping, dataset curation, model training, performance optimization, and deployment.

Location: Onsite in Mountain View, California, US or New York City, New York, US

Company

hirify.global is a team of scientists, engineers, and machine learning experts advancing the state of the art in artificial intelligence for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery.

What you will do

• Apply research ideas to high-impact real-world problems.
• Prototype, curate datasets, train models, optimize performance, and deploy solutions.
• Work on Generative Media (video and audio-visual), Multimodal Understanding, and Multimodal evaluations.
• Focus on efficient inference and model optimization.
• Contribute to projects involving Reinforcement Learning.

Requirements

• BSc, MSc or PhD degree in computer science, mathematics, applied stats, machine learning or similar industry experience.
• Knowledge of machine learning, statistics, computer vision, and diffusion model theories.
• Proven experience with Tensorflow or similar ML frameworks (e.g., JAX or PyTorch).
• Recent experience conducting applied research.
• Work onsite in Mountain View, California, US or New York City, New York, US.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with training diffusion models.
• Proven industry experience working on projects from proof-of-concept through to implementation.
• Experience in video understanding models and Multimodal LMs.
• Experience in controlled media generation.
• Cross-functional collaboration experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption, and shared parental leave.
• Private medical and dental insurance for employees and dependents.
• Flexible working options.
• Excellent facilities including healthy food, on-site gym, and faith rooms.
• Commitment to diversity, equality, and inclusion.

Hiring process

• Background check required upon successful application and offer.