Member of Technical Staff (Speech and Language Models)

Location: On-site in San Francisco, with four days spent collaborating in person at the San Francisco office

Compensation: $200,000–$300,000 per year plus equity

Company

hirify.global builds AI agents for regulated financial services, automating loan servicing, compliance, collections, recovery, insurance claims, and disputes for financial institutions.

What you will do

• Build and improve production speech models and systems to increase real-time conversational quality.
• Post-train LLMs for voice agents serving consumer finance.
• Develop evaluation frameworks, harnesses, and monitoring systems.
• Improve end-to-end agent quality across models, data, infrastructure, and product.
• Own major technical areas from problem definition through production deployment.
• Ship improvements affecting millions of live customer conversations.

Requirements

• Strong engineering fundamentals and the ability to build reliable production systems.
• Experience with speech modeling or LLM post-training.
• Familiarity with ASR, TTS, turn detection, speech enhancement, multilingual speech, LLM post-training, or model evaluation.
• Ability to diagnose real-world model failures and turn them into practical improvements.
• High ownership, strong execution speed, and comfort working in ambiguous technical areas.
• Ability to work in person at the San Francisco office, typically beginning at 8:00 AM and working around 60 hours per week.

Nice to have

• Prior experience in speech modeling and LLM post-training.
• Exceptional technical ability and enthusiasm for difficult AI problems.

Culture & Benefits

• Small, high-caliber team with significant individual ownership and autonomy.
• Fast-paced environment with quickly moving sprints and major launches.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for full-time employees.
• Generous 401(k).
• Catered lunches.