Drimva

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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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First seen Oct 28, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)