Senior Data Scientist (Multimodal AI)

TL;DR

Senior Data Scientist (Multimodal AI): Designing and deploying production-ready computer vision and vision-language systems with an accent on multimodal AI and agentic workflows. Focus on developing VLMs, MLLMs, and optimizing large-scale AI platforms for real-world perception and decision-making.

Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Company

hirify.global is an ADX-listed public company and a leading big data analytics firm powered by GenAI, serving various sectors to create societal impact.

What you will do

• Manage end-to-end ML/DL model development, including data collection, annotation, training, and deployment.
• Build computer vision models for multi-object tracking, video understanding, and behavior analysis.
• Develop multimodal AI systems using VLMs and MLLMs for reasoning, VQA, and retrieval.
• Design LLM-based vision agents and agentic AI workflows.
• Integrate LLMs, vision models, and APIs to create cohesive multimodal systems.
• Perform model tuning, quantization, and inference optimization to scale for robustness and performance.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in AI, Data Science, Computer Science, Mathematics, or Engineering (Master's preferred).
• 5+ years of experience developing and deploying machine learning or deep learning models in production.
• Experience working with large-scale image, video, or audio datasets.
• Strong knowledge of computer vision/audio algorithms and deep learning architectures.
• Hands-on experience with Vision Transformers, multimodal transformers, or foundation models.
• Must be based in Abu Dhabi, UAE

Nice to have

• Experience with Audio Models or multimodal AI systems.
• Expertise in model optimization, distributed training, or GPU parallelism.
• Experience with LLM frameworks, agent systems, or multimodal reasoning pipelines.