Ataraxis AI
Member of Technical Staff, Foundation Models
$100K–$300K
New York HQ · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jul 3, 2026
- Education
- PhD degree in machine learning or statistics.
About the job
Develops self-supervised learning methods and foundation models for clinical data, and turns research into evaluated, production-ready systems.
What you'll do
- Design and implement self-supervised learning methods for training foundation models.
- Translate machine learning papers into production-ready code and build model evaluation frameworks.
- Co-author research papers and abstracts, collaborate with engineers and scientists, and co-mentor junior team members.
What they ask for
- PhD degree in machine learning or statistics.
- Excellent understanding of core machine learning concepts and foundations of statistics, linear algebra, probability, and machine learning.
- Excellent skills in Python and PyTorch.
- Experience in deep learning and self-supervised learning.
Nice to have
- Papers in A* conferences such as ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS, or CVPR.
- Experience in survival analysis, multi-modal learning, domain adaptation, causal inference, model interpretability, or computational pathology.
Pay
$100K – $300K USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, PyTorch
AI focus
Research and development of self-supervised foundation models for clinical data, including methods for predicting patient outcomes and treatment response.
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