Tempus
Staff AI Scientist - AI Products / Life Sciences
$200K–$260K
Chicago +3 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 2026
- Location
- Chicago
Redwood City
New York City
Remote - Illinois - Experience
- 3+ years of industry experience.
- Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related quantitative field.
About the job
Researches, develops, and deploys multimodal AI models and products for precision medicine, clinical care, and life-sciences applications.
What you'll do
- Lead hands-on AI projects from research through production-ready design and deployment.
- Develop models using clinical and molecular data to support biomarker discovery, therapy outcome prediction, and companion diagnostics.
- Align products with healthcare regulatory and quality standards, and publish original research.
What they ask for
- Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related quantitative field.
- 3+ years of industry experience leading end-to-end machine-learning model development, from research and experimentation to validation and production deployment.
- Expertise in large-scale deep learning and training production-grade models.
- Peer-reviewed publications in leading machine-learning or computer-vision venues; proficiency in Python and the modern deep-learning stack, plus strong product-level coding skills.
Nice to have
- Experience in computer vision and multimodal modeling, such as pathology or multi-omics.
- Publications in medical or healthcare AI venues.
Pay
USD 220,000 - USD 260,000 base salary (New York); USD 220,000 - USD 260,000 base salary (California); USD 200,000 - USD 240,000 base salary (Illinois); USD 200,000 - USD 240,000 base salary (Remote - USA)
Tools
Python, Pytorch
AI focus
Develops multimodal AI models for precision medicine, including biomarker discovery, therapy outcome prediction, and companion diagnostics.
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