AI Research Scientist

Location: Austin, TX, United States; hybrid work arrangement.

Company

hirify.global is building a distributed AI infrastructure platform for private, scalable, personalized AI running on standard consumer hardware and at the edge.

What you will do

• Design, train, evaluate, and optimize large language models, multimodal models, transformers, CNNs, RNNs, and diffusion architectures.
• Research quantization, compression, distillation, pruning, hardware-aware training, and on-device deployment.
• Prototype model architectures, training methods, and inference strategies for distributed AI.
• Build datasets, benchmarks, and experimental frameworks to validate model performance.
• Collaborate with research, applied AI, and platform engineering teams to integrate findings into production systems.
• Analyze experiments, document findings, contribute to papers, and present technical work.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience, including graduate research, in machine learning research, AI model development, or a related field.
• Strong expertise in deep learning architectures and experience training and fine-tuning large-scale models.
• Proficiency in Python and ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX.
• Experience building datasets, designing experiments, and validating ML model performance.
• Strong understanding of optimization techniques, including quantization, distillation, pruning, and hardware-aware training.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.

Nice to have

• Master’s or PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, AI, or a related field.
• Experience with distributed training, edge inference, on-device ML, generative AI, reinforcement learning, or multimodal learning.
• Familiarity with privacy-preserving ML, including federated learning.
• Academic publications, patents, or open-source ML contributions.
• Experience in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Values centered on truth, ownership, tenacity, and humility.
• Health, dental, and vision benefits for eligible U.S.-based employees.
• 401(k) match, equity options, supplemental life insurance, and parental leave.
• $200/month Health & Wellness stipend and $500/year Function Health subscription.
• Continuing Education support, Flexible Time Off, and free parking for in-office employees.
• Benefits for employees hired outside the United States may vary by local law and employment entity.