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Applied Healthcare Researcher
Remote · Remote · Full-time · Posted Aug 6, 2026
- Experience
- Master's plus 2+ years industry experience, or equivalent applied experience.
- Education
- Advanced degree (PhD or Master's plus 2+ years industry experience) in machine learning, computer science, biomedical informatics, epidemiology, statistics, or a related quantitative field — or equivalent applied experience.
About the job
Research healthcare training data for AI labs and startups by identifying suitable datasets, testing whether they support model objectives, and communicating evidence and limitations to customers.
What you'll do
- Partner with customer researchers to translate model-development goals into data strategies and answer questions about delivered data.
- Develop and evaluate methods and benchmarks to assess dataset feasibility, quality, and limitations.
- Analyze healthcare datasets and create reusable research workflows in collaboration with Product, Engineering, and data teams.
What they ask for
- Advanced degree (PhD or Master's plus 2+ years industry experience) in a relevant quantitative field, or equivalent applied experience.
- Hands-on experience building and evaluating ML or LLM-based systems on real-world data.
- Experience with healthcare data and designing evaluations of data quality and dataset representativeness.
- Strong Python and SQL skills; ability to work independently with large datasets and directly with technical stakeholders.
Tools
Python, SQL, ML, LLM-based systems
AI focus
Applied research to identify, evaluate, and validate healthcare data for training or evaluating AI models, including methods such as fine-tuning, LLM-based extraction, and classification.
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