Tempus
Staff AI Scientist, Foundation Models
$220K–$260K
New York City +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 2026
- Location
- New York City
Remote - USA - Experience
- 3+ years of industry experience.
- Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related quantitative field.
About the job
Develops and deploys large-scale foundation models for precision medicine using multimodal clinical and molecular data, and adapts them for healthcare and life sciences applications.
What you'll do
- Design, train, validate, and advance foundation models across clinical and molecular modalities.
- Develop downstream models for applications such as prognosis, treatment outcome prediction, patient stratification, and biomarker discovery.
- Provide technical and scientific leadership, publish research, and collaborate on product quality, validation, and regulatory alignment.
What they ask for
- Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related quantitative field.
- 3+ years of industry experience developing machine learning models end to end, from research through production deployment.
- Expertise in large-scale deep learning and foundation model development; a strong track record of original, high-impact peer-reviewed research.
- Proficiency in Python and the modern deep learning stack, with strong product-level coding skills and knowledge of software engineering practices.
Nice to have
- Experience with computer vision, NLP, pathology, longitudinal EHR, genomics, or other biomedical modalities.
- Publications in medical or healthcare AI and prior experience developing foundation models.
Pay
$220,000 - $260,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, Pytorch
AI focus
Foundation-model research and development for precision medicine, including multimodal learning, pretraining, representation learning, self-supervised learning, model scaling, and post-training.
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