Applied Scientist (AI)

Location: Timisoara, Bucharest, or Iasi, Romania

Company

hirify.global develops customer-facing services and machine learning solutions for product compliance, safety, and assurance.

What you will do

• Research and evaluate state-of-the-art algorithms in NLP, multimodal modeling, domain adaptation, continuous learning, and large language models.
• Design algorithms for synthetic data generation, active learning, and grounding LLMs for business applications.
• Research tabular, textual, product image, document, selling partner, and customer feedback data.
• Plan label collection and audit mechanisms to improve product assurance and customer trust.
• Collaborate with scientists, engineers, technical program managers, product managers, and business teams to measure risks and shape research and product roadmaps.
• Consult on data and modeling pipelines and publish research at internal and external venues.

Requirements

• PhD, or a master's degree with experience in computer science, computer engineering, machine learning, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning.
• Experience building machine learning models for business applications.
• Knowledge of algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, or high-performance computing.
• Programming experience with Python, Java, or C++.
• English communication skills are required for collaboration and research publication.

Nice to have

• Experience with statistical modeling and machine learning.
• Professional software development experience.
• Experience implementing algorithms with toolkits and self-developed code.
• Patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals.
• Experience working cross-functionally across several teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Work focuses on research contributions in multimodal modeling, unstructured data matching, text extraction from visual documents, and anomaly detection.
• Research findings are regularly published in academic venues.
• Inclusive hiring and workplace accommodation support are available.