Member of Technical Staff (AI)

Location: San Mateo, United States

Salary: $210K–$320K annually plus equity

Company

hirify.global provides an AI platform for building, training, and serving specialized models across text, image, embedding, audio, and multimodal workloads.

What you will do

• Conduct foundational research to advance the capabilities, efficiency, and reliability of LLMs and multimodal systems.
• Design, implement, and evaluate model architectures, training methods, and optimization techniques.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to transition research prototypes into production-grade systems.
• Analyze empirical results, identify performance bottlenecks, and improve model quality.
• Contribute to research strategy by identifying high-impact opportunities and emerging AI trends.

Requirements

• Research background in artificial intelligence, machine learning, physics, or a similar field.
• Experience solving analytical problems using analytical and quantitative approaches.
• Experience communicating research to audiences with different backgrounds.
• Programming experience in C, C++, Python, or similar languages.
• Research and engineering experience demonstrated through grants, fellowships, patents, internships, professional experience, or coding competitions.

Nice to have

• PhD in computer science, computational physics, mathematics, or a similar field.
• First-author publications at peer-reviewed conferences or journals.
• Experience with ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on challenges in AI infrastructure, including low-latency inference and scalable model serving.
• Build technology used by businesses and developers to harness AI.
• High ownership and direct impact in a fast-growing environment.
• Collaborate with experienced engineers and AI researchers focused on curiosity and innovation.
• Compensation includes equity.