Member of Technical Staff — ML Infra (Data)

Location: In-person in Seattle, five days a week

Salary: $200,000–$300,000 base salary per year, plus meaningful equity.

Company

hirify.global is a research company building photorealistic, real-time AI avatars with emotional intelligence and full-duplex audiovisual interaction.

What you will do

• Design, build, and operate large-scale pipelines for ingesting, processing, filtering, and curating multimodal video, audio, and text training data.
• Productionize research-grade data processing code while preserving correctness and processing fidelity.
• Optimize throughput and efficiency across compute, I/O, and storage, identifying and eliminating bottlenecks.
• Build data quality systems for deduplication, filtering, validation, and quality scoring.
• Manage petabyte-scale datasets, including storage architecture, versioning, lineage tracking, and cost efficiency.
• Work with researchers to translate data requirements into scalable processing systems and efficient research tooling.

Requirements

• Production experience building and operating large-scale data pipelines where naive approaches do not scale.
• Strong proficiency with distributed data processing frameworks such as Spark, Ray, Dask, or similar.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including clean, testable, and maintainable code.
• Familiarity with ML data pipelines and the effect of data quality and format on model training.
• Ability to turn research prototypes into production-ready pipelines in days rather than weeks.
• Ability to work in person in Seattle five days per week.

Nice to have

• Experience with multimodal data, including video and audio formats, codecs, FFmpeg, or decord.
• Experience building pipelines for large-scale model pre-training or fine-tuning.
• Familiarity with DVC, Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, streaming pipelines, or online data processing.
• Prior work at an AI lab, video platform, or other data-intensive company.
• Contributions to open-source data tooling.

Culture & Benefits

• Small research-focused team working on unsolved real-time AI problems.
• Visa sponsorship is available from day one, including O-1, H-1B, and green card support.
• AI-native tooling with unlimited tokens.
• HSA plan with approximately $2,000 in annual company contributions.
• 15 days of PTO, public holidays, and a full week of office closure at year-end.
• Daily lunch, drinks, snacks, commuter benefits, and a 401(k) plan.