Member of Technical Staff - Clinical AI Research Scientist

Kinetic Systems

• $130K — $160K *
Healthcare
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Medical degree (PA, RN, NP, MD, DO, etc.)
  • Willing to work in-person, full-time in San Francisco
  • Intermediate software engineering skills in Python and Javascript
  • Foundational knowledge in medicine and clinical training
  • Understanding of healthcare data standards, interoperability, and HIPAA considerations

Responsibilities

  • Drive research agenda for advancing AI model capabilities in healthcare
  • Build novel datasets and benchmarks to identify capability gaps
  • Publish academic papers on research findings
  • Post-train models to improve state-of-the-art performance
  • Collaborate with healthcare partners to align research with practical needs

Benefits

  • Founding-level impact and ownership
  • Work at the cutting edge of AI and healthcare research
  • Competitive compensation with meaningful equity
  • Opportunity to advance AI research in a significant application area
  • Unlimited paid time off (PTO)
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
  • 401(k) plan
  • Free lunch and dinner
Full Job Description
The Role

As a Clinical AI Research Scientist, you'll help drive our research agenda towards advancing AI model capabilities on real-world healthcare tasks. You'll help build novel datasets, environments, and benchmarks to identify capability gaps in current models, publish academic papers, and post-train models to push the SOTA while staying grounded to the demonstrated needs of our healthcare partners.

Note: This is a full-time role, required to be in-person in SF.

What You'll Do
  • Develop novel evals, RL environments, and benchmarks to reflect real-world healthcare workflows
  • Provide domain expertise and medical knowledge to help shape our research directions and deliverables
  • Write and publish papers in academic conferences


Who You Are
  • Must have one of the following medical degrees: MD, DO, MBBS, NP, RN, or PA
  • 1+ years of experience working in a real clinical environment (clinical rotations are OK)
  • Proficient in Python and JavaScript
  • Intermediate software engineering skills (i.e. not just Claude Code) - strong experience with Github, CI/CD, AWS
  • Familiar with best practices around RLEs, benchmarks, evals, and post-training
  • Understanding of healthcare data standards (e.g., EHR data structures, interoperability, HIPAA considerations)
  • Strong interest in AI and machine learning applications
  • Experience with clinical workflow analysis, quality improvement initiatives, or digital health product development


Why Us

If you join our team, you will be joining a team with...
  • Founding-level impact and ownership
  • An opportunity to advance AI research in one of its most meaningful application areas
  • Competitive compensation and meaningful equity
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
  • 401(k)
  • Free lunch + dinner

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