Product Manager, AI/ML & Foundation Models (AI)

Location: On-site in San Diego, California or Washington, DC, United States

Salary: $190,000–$290,000 per year, plus bonus, benefits, and equity for regular employees

Company

hirify.global is a venture-backed defense-tech company developing intelligent autonomy systems, including Hivemind autonomy software, autonomous aircraft, and simulation technologies.

What you will do

• Own the roadmap for foundation-model training workflows covering dataset ingestion, curation, labeling, synthetic data generation, training, and distillation.
• Define requirements for world models, robotics models, multimodal models, and vision-language-action training and evaluation.
• Lead MLOps capabilities including data lineage, experiment tracking, model versioning, and scalable evaluation suites.
• Develop synthetic-data, simulation, model-governance, auditability, and compliance tooling.
• Define safe deployment workflows, guardrails, quantization, and inference tooling for disconnected edge hardware.
• Coordinate with engineering, AI research, autonomy, safety, cyber, certification, hardware, and customer-facing teams.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in product management or highly technical ML/AI product roles.
• 2+ years of hands-on software development experience.
• Strong background in computer science, electrical engineering, robotics, or a related field.
• Deep understanding of foundation models, robotics models, multimodal models, MLOps, and training infrastructure.
• Experience managing products spanning data pipelines, cloud training clusters, model governance, and edge deployments.
• Experience transitioning ML research into stable, production-grade workflows and working with simulation-based data generation.

Nice to have

• Experience with autonomy, robotics, embedded AI, mission-critical systems, defense, dual-use, or safety-critical AI.
• Hands-on familiarity with GPU infrastructure, distributed training, or data lakehouse architectures.
• Experience designing AI Factory-style data-to-edge pipelines.
• Advanced degree in engineering, ML/AI, robotics, or a related field.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time regular employee package includes salary within the listed range, bonus, benefits, and equity.
• Work is performed on-site in San Diego or Washington, DC.
• Offers are contingent on a cleared background and may include a reference check.
• hirify.global is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.