Member of Technical Staff, Pretraining (AI)

Location: San Jose, United States

Salary: $180,000–$450,000 annually

Company

hirify.global is an artificial intelligence company developing personalized, proactive, multimodal intelligence and next-generation AI hardware.

What you will do

• Drive research and development in large-scale LLM and multimodal pretraining.
• Develop data pipelines for large-scale curation, filtering, deduplication, and synthetic data generation.
• Design efficient distributed training strategies, including scaling laws and optimization techniques.
• Build and improve pretraining infrastructure, training systems, and compute-efficiency solutions.
• Develop evaluation frameworks and internal benchmarks for model capability and pretraining progress.
• Collaborate with research and engineering teams to improve foundation model performance and scalability.

Requirements

• Proven experience improving large-scale neural network performance through advances in pretraining data, modeling, or training systems.
• Strong experience with distributed training frameworks such as Megatron, DeepSpeed, or similar tools.
• Deep understanding of LLM or multimodal pretraining, data pipelines, scaling behavior, and optimization.
• Experience with data-driven experimentation, systematic analysis, and debugging at scale.
• Experience building or using large-scale training infrastructure and high-performance computing systems.
• Strong ownership and ability to work in a fast-paced, research-driven environment.

Nice to have

• Experience with multimodal pretraining across text, audio, and vision.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a research-driven environment focused on advancing foundation model capabilities.
• Collaborate across research and engineering teams.
• Compensation may include additional components and benefits depending on the role.