Senior AI/ML Engineer (LLM)

Location: United States; hybrid work in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, with three days per week in the office

Company

hirify.global builds longitudinal, multimodal real-world evidence solutions for pharmaceutical, biotech, provider, and payer organizations.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and deploy scalable machine learning systems for healthcare analytics and real-world evidence generation.
• Translate state-of-the-art LLM research into production-ready solutions for researchers, statisticians, clinical teams, and customers.
• Work with large-scale structured and unstructured clinical data in a cloud-based environment.
• Develop model-quality features such as drift detection, performance monitoring, observability, logging, and error handling.
• Collaborate with software engineers, data scientists, research scientists, and product managers to build reliable ML-native enterprise platforms.
• Contribute to ML engineering standards through code reviews, documentation, technical mentorship, and cross-functional communication.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in backend and cloud platform software development.
• Fluency in Python.
• Strong familiarity with modern machine learning and LLM techniques, frameworks, and tooling.
• Experience developing and maintaining high-performing, scalable, data-centric enterprise software products.
• Strong problem-solving, technical design, documentation, and communication skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Experience developing end-to-end ML systems from design and training through inference, deployment, and monitoring.
• Production experience with LLM fine-tuning, prompt engineering, or retrieval-augmented generation.
• Experience with RAG infrastructure, including data vectorization, vector stores, and search methodologies.
• Background in healthcare, clinical informatics, or life sciences, including EHR, claims, or registry data.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work with three days per week in a new office.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their families.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Generous paid time off and company holidays.
• Paid parental leave.