Applied Scientist / Research Engineer - Multimodal (AI)

TL;DR

Applied Scientist / Research Engineer - Multimodal (AI): Focused on multimodal learning (text, image, audio, video) to drive innovative research and collaborate with clients on complex projects. Focus on designing, training, and deploying SOTA multimodal models and applying them to diverse use cases.

Location: Must be willing to relocate to Singapore

Salary: $90k

Company

hirify.global is democratizing AI through high-performance, optimized, open-source and cutting-edge models, products and solutions.

What you will do

• Run pre-training, post-training and deploy state of the art models on clusters with thousands of GPUs.
• Generate and curate multimodal datasets (web‑scale image‑text, document‑image, audio‑text, video‑text), and build robust evaluators/benchmarks.
• Develop the necessary tools and frameworks to facilitate data generation, model training, evaluation and deployment.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to tackle complex use cases using agents and RAG pipelines.
• Manage research projects and communications with client research teams.

Requirements

• Fluent in English, and have excellent communication skills.
• Expert with PyTorch or JAX.
• Experience in one of the following: VLMs, diffusion for image/video, audio processing (ASR/TTS), image processing, robotics.
• Write clean, readable, high-performance, fault-tolerant Python code.
• Low-ego, collaborative and eager to learn.
• Have a track record of success through personal projects, professional projects or in academia.

Nice to have

• Hold a PhD / master in a relevant field (e.g., Mathematics, Physics, Machine Learning).
• Can bring a variety of research experience (agents, multi-modality, robotics, diffusion, time-series).
• Have contributed to a large codebase used by many (open source or in the industry).
• Have a track record of publications in top academic journals or conferences.
• Love improving existing code by fixing typing issues, adding tests and improving CI pipelines.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive cash salary and equity.
• Health Insurance.
• $90 for gym membership allowance.
• $200 monthly allowance for meals.
• $120/month for public transport or Parking charges reimbursed.