Applied AI Scientist (Geospatial AI)

Location: Remote (United States); U.S. Person status required

Salary: $128,000–$187,000 annually, with location-based ranges up to $215,600

Company

hirify.global develops spatial intelligence solutions that help decision makers and operators understand current events and anticipate future developments.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and deploy AI-driven applications that transform large-scale geospatial data into actionable insights and predictive intelligence.
• Build and operate end-to-end ML pipelines covering data ingestion, preprocessing, feature engineering, training, evaluation, and production inference.
• Productionize reasoning models, vision-language models, and multimodal AI systems combining imagery, geospatial signals, and structured data.
• Architect training and experimentation frameworks with automated pipelines, experiment tracking, benchmarking, and reproducible evaluation.
• Create synthetic datasets and test harnesses to assess model robustness and edge-case behavior in operational environments.
• Optimize and maintain production inference systems for scalability, latency, cost efficiency, reliability, monitoring, versioning, retraining, and performance tracking.

Requirements

• MS or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Applied Mathematics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience building and deploying machine learning systems in production environments.
• Experience delivering end-to-end ML pipelines, reproducible experimentation systems, model evaluation, dataset versioning, and experiment tracking.
• Hands-on experience with deep learning, including vision-language models, multimodal learning, reasoning models, LLMs, computer vision, or geospatial AI.
• Strong Python skills and experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX, plus production deployment using cloud and containerized infrastructure.
• Familiarity with distributed training, large-scale data processing, model optimization, and collaboration across research, engineering, and product teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with geospatial data, remote sensing, satellite imagery, or Earth observation systems.
• Experience building or fine-tuning foundation models, multimodal models, or agentic AI systems.
• Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform and large-scale AI/ML infrastructure.
• Open-source AI contributions, research publications, or patents.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive total rewards package with a 401(k) and company match.
• Mental health resources, student loan repayment assistance, adoption reimbursement, and pet insurance.
• Incentive eligibility based on contribution, company performance, and/or individual results.
• Equal opportunity workplace focused on inclusion and respect.

Hiring process

• Apply through hirify.global's Career page.
• The application window is three days from posting and remains open until a qualified candidate is identified.