Senior Applied Machine Learning Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Senior Applied Machine Learning Engineer (AI): Building and owning production ML systems for content understanding, moderation, and policy enforcement with an accent on multimodal classification and Trust & Safety. Focus on developing end-to-end pipelines, fine-tuning vision-language models, and optimizing inference for high-throughput production environments.

Location: On-site in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Relocation is provided from anywhere.

Company

hirify.global is a fast-scaling generative AI company specializing in frontier AI-powered video creation and next-generation creative tools.

What you will do

• Own applied ML projects end-to-end from problem definition and data collection to production deployment and monitoring.
• Build multimodal classification and detection systems for images, video, text, and metadata.
• Develop solutions for NSFW detection, intellectual property recognition, and content policy enforcement.
• Fine-tune and evaluate vision-language models, classifiers, and embedding models.
• Design and optimize inference pipelines for high throughput, low latency, and cost efficiency.
• Establish production monitoring for model quality, data drift, and policy coverage.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in machine learning with significant experience deploying systems into production.
• Strong expertise in computer vision, multimodal ML, content understanding, or Trust & Safety.
• Proficiency in Python and modern ML frameworks such as PyTorch.
• Experience building datasets, labeling workflows, and evaluation frameworks for real-world scenarios.
• Ability to communicate technical trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Must be able to work on-site in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Nice to have

• Experience with generative image or video models.
• Knowledge of vision-language models, embeddings, and similarity search.
• Experience in fast-moving startup environments.
• Familiarity with adversarial behavior, model evasion, and abuse patterns.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive base salary in USD.
• Equity participation via the company’s stock option program.
• Relocation support to Almaty office.
• Opportunity to shape the future of AI-native experiences in a high-impact team.