Drimva

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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First seen Oct 29, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)