RE/RS, Data Understanding - Foundations (AI)

TL;DR

Research Engineer / Research Scientist (AI): Developing methods for pretraining data curation and understanding at scale with an accent on data quality and quantized representations. Focus on creating datasets that improve model capabilities and designing rigorous experiments to analyze model learning behavior.

Location: San Francisco, USA

Salary: $445,000 – $555,000 + Equity

Company

hirify.global is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.

What you will do

• Develop new methods to select, combine, and transform pretraining data at scale.
• Create high-quality datasets and quantized (VQ) representations for large-scale model training.
• Design and execute rigorous experiments to understand how data choices affect model learning and behavior.
• Translate successful research into scalable, high-performance data processing pipelines.
• Manage data processing, filtering, deduplication, quality control, and tokenization.

Requirements

• Strong track record of new or improved ML ideas via publications, projects, or applied research.
• Ability to own and drive a research agenda from problem selection to final impact.
• Excitement for an empirical and collaborative approach to research.
• Must be based in San Francisco, USA.

Nice to have

• Experience building high-performance deep learning or large-scale data processing systems.
• Deep thoughtfulness regarding AI impact, including privacy, provenance, and data quality.

Culture & Benefits

• Work at the frontier of AI research to solve immense global challenges.
• Collaborative, empirical research environment.
• Competitive compensation including base salary and equity.
• Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion as an equal opportunity employer.