Machine Learning Scientist (AI)

Location: Boston Office or remote within the US; hybrid work format

Salary: $148K–$186K per year

Company

hirify.global Therapeutics is a clinical-stage life-science and technology company developing medicines through an AI-driven drug discovery and development platform.

What you will do

• Fine-tune large-scale multimodal transformer models for clinical and biomedical applications.
• Source, curate, characterize, and evaluate datasets covering clinical trial outcomes, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, toxicity, and adverse events.
• Develop leakage-resistant experiments and benchmarking frameworks across models and tasks.
• Build models with calibration, uncertainty quantification, and clinically meaningful evaluation metrics.
• Collaborate with ML, software engineering, clinical science, and pharmacology colleagues to deploy and operationalize models.
• Produce, test, document, and package research and engineering code, and communicate results to internal teams, partners, and conferences.

Requirements

• MS in chemistry, bio/chemical engineering, or a computational STEM field with 3+ years of relevant industry or research experience, or a PhD or equivalent experience.
• Strong Python experience implementing and fine-tuning deep learning models.
• Demonstrated experience in clinical science or working with clinical datasets.
• Strong data science skills across problem framing, data sourcing, cleaning, visualization, exploratory analysis, modeling, tuning, and communication.
• Ability to independently own a workstream from data ingestion through evaluation.
• Experience with reproducible experimentation, control strategies, clean code, testing, Docker, CUDA, Kubernetes, and experiment tracking such as Weights & Biases.

Nice to have

• Experience building and deploying clinically relevant prediction models.
• Familiarity with ClinicalTrials.gov/AACT, MedDRA, pharmacovigilance, or adverse event data.
• Experience with multi-task learning, agentic data extraction, HPC, or large-scale computing.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive environment focused on diversity and collaboration across AI, life sciences, and drug discovery.
• Company-paid healthcare and flexible spending accounts.
• Voluntary life insurance and 401(k) matching.
• Uncapped vacation.
• Access to an onsite gym and dining facilities at the San Diego site.