Senior Staff Machine Learning Scientist (AI)

Location: Remote-first in the United States or in British Columbia and Ontario, Canada

Salary: USD 204,800–290,000 for U.S. geographic pay zones; CAD 253,000–316,000 for British Columbia and Ontario, Canada

Company

hirify.global is an agentic web marketing platform that helps modern marketing teams build, manage, and optimize high-performing web experiences.

What you will do

• Lead research initiatives in computer vision, multimodal understanding, and visual generation.
• Develop models, algorithms, and training methodologies for image and video understanding, visual search, scene representation, segmentation, detection, generation, and multimodal reasoning.
• Design, implement, train, and optimize large-scale vision and multimodal foundation models across diverse datasets and tasks.
• Translate research findings into model improvements, product direction, and production-ready systems.
• Partner with applied scientists, ML engineers, and product teams to move research from exploration to production.
• Set technical direction, mentor scientists and engineers, and strengthen research quality across the organization.

Requirements

• BA/BS degree or equivalent experience; an advanced degree in a related field is preferred, with a PhD strongly preferred.
• 8+ years of relevant industry or research experience, or equivalent impact, including major research initiatives in computer vision or multimodal machine learning.
• Deep theoretical and practical expertise in computer vision, representation learning, visual recognition, image or video generation, multimodal learning, and large-scale model training.
• Experience with transformers, diffusion models, contrastive learning, foundation models, and modern deep learning frameworks including PyTorch and TensorFlow.
• Strong Python coding and prototyping skills, with the ability to write scalable and well-documented research code.
• Technical leadership, mentoring, research direction, and communication skills for technical and cross-functional audiences.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time, permanent, exempt employment with equity through RSUs.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents, with most premiums covered.
• Paid parental leave, flexible vacation, paid holidays, and a sabbatical program.
• Mental health resources, therapy and coaching, plus localized monthly work and wellness stipends.
• U.S. 401(k) with a 100% employer match up to $6,000 per year and retirement savings support globally.
• Eligibility for the annual WIN bonus program for full-time, permanent, non-commission employees.