Lead Applied Researcher (Pricing)

Location: United Kingdom; fully remote

Company

hirify.global is a global technology company operating a bid-based ride-hailing marketplace and services across freight, delivery, intercity travel, and financial services.

What you will do

• Design and improve dynamic pricing policies, including elasticity and supply-and-demand response models.
• Frame pricing as a feedback-driven decision system under uncertainty and delayed signals.
• Develop, test, and deploy real-time pricing algorithms.
• Design and analyze A/B experiments to evaluate pricing impact.
• Productionize models with engineering partners, ensuring scalability and robustness.
• Monitor system stability, feedback effects, and long-term behavior while contributing to optimization, control, and reinforcement-learning-inspired methods.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of experience in Data Science, Applied Research, or algorithmic product optimization, preferably in marketplaces or pricing systems.
• Strong background in statistics, optimization, and causal inference.
• Ability to move from problem formulation to production-grade solutions.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL, with experience in production ML systems.

Nice to have

• Experience with economic modeling, including elasticity, auctions, or policy design.
• Familiarity with control systems, reinforcement learning, or online optimization.
• Experience working with real-time, high-load systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Mentoring, career consulting, and learning programs.
• International collaboration and access to the Global Talent Exchange Program.
• Company-wide challenges, awards, sports activities, volunteering, and employee-led social impact projects.
• Language courses and internal speaking clubs.
• Open communication and an initiative-driven environment.
• Final benefits may vary depending on location.

Hiring process

• Applications are reviewed before an offer is made.
• The final stage is hiring.