Sprinter Health
AI Research Scientist
$160K–$220K
San Francisco, CA +1 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Jul 17, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
Menlo Park, CA
About the job
Develops rigorous, clinically validated AI research and translates promising methods into tools for production healthcare systems.
What you'll do
- Own a research agenda, identify open problems, design experiments, and develop novel AI methods and evaluation approaches.
- Produce research evidence such as publications, patents, and peer-reviewed validation studies; guide and mentor applied AI teams.
- Collaborate with clinical and cross-functional partners on validation and align research with company and patient impact.
What they ask for
- Demonstrated ability to produce novel research and write work to peer-review standards.
- Deep machine learning foundations and expertise in at least one relevant area, such as LLMs, agents, uncertainty, causality, multimodal learning, or clinical AI.
- Strong engineering ability to run experiments at scale.
- Understanding of healthcare validation standards, including external validation, prospective evaluation, data governance, and real-world deployment constraints.
Nice to have
- First-author publications at top technical or clinical AI venues.
- Experience in research teams, clinical collaboration, IRB processes, clinical data governance, or healthcare model validation.
Pay
$160K – $220K USD base salary
Tools
LLMs
AI focus
Advances AI research for healthcare, including novel methods, architectures, training and evaluation techniques, and clinically rigorous validation; translates research into production systems.
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