ML Postdoc Researcher - Healthcare AI Innovation

Truveta; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 68,880 - 82,656; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Company-issued laptop and equipment

Opportunities for future positions

Job summary

Truveta is seeking a highly motivated ML Postdoc Researcher to apply AI/ML technologies to large-scale clinical data, located in Seattle, WA. This role is designed for recent PhD graduates with a passion for healthcare innovation. You'll innovate and prototype applications, collaborating with experts across fields to define research directions. Offering competitive compensation of $50-$60 per hour, this position embraces a remote culture but requires presence in the United States. Join Truveta in transforming healthcare through data.

Qualifications

• Must have recently completed a PhD in a relevant field focused on machine learning.
• Experience in developing and fine-tuning large language models for healthcare applications.
• Familiarity with EHR, claims, and clinical notes data.

Responsibilities

• Identify novel applications of AI/ML using large-scale EHR data.
• Design, develop, and evaluate advanced models.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement research ideas.
• Contribute to top-tier journals and conferences.

Skills

Machine learning

Natural language processing

Data analysis

AI/ML prototyping

Education

PhD in relevant field

Tools

Large language models

Generative models

Job description

ML Postdoc Researcher - Healthcare AI Innovation

Seattle, WA

Truveta is the world’s first health provider‑led data platform with a vision of Saving Lives with Data. Our mission is to enable researchers to find cures faster, empower every clinician to be an expert, and help families make the most informed decisions about their care. Achieving Truveta’s ambitious vision requires an incredible team of talented and inspired people with a special combination of health, software and big data experience who share our company values.

Our headquarters are in the greater Seattle area, but we celebrate and embrace a remote culture. Participation in the Postdoctoral Research program requires that you are physically present in the United States for the duration of the program.

Truveta is transforming healthcare by enabling researchers, clinicians, and life sciences organizations to learn from one of the most comprehensive collections of de‑identified patient data in the United States. With access to longitudinal electronic health record (EHR) data from over 120 million patients (which represents over a third of the US population), we are uniquely positioned to drive breakthroughs in clinical research and improve patient outcomes.

This Opportunity

We are seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Researcher to explore and develop novel applications of cutting‑edge AI/ML technologies on large‑scale real‑world clinical data.

This role is designed for recent PhD graduates who are passionate about pushing the boundaries of machine learning in healthcare. You will work at the intersection of machine learning, clinical data, and biomedical science, identifying new opportunities where modern AI can unlock insights that were previously out of reach.

A key expectation is not just execution—but imagination: the ability to envision and prototype entirely new ways to use rich patient data to solve meaningful healthcare problems.

Who You Are

• Curious and imaginative: You naturally think beyond existing solutions and ask “what hasn’t been done yet?”
• Impact‑driven: You care about applying research to real‑world healthcare problems
• Comfortable with ambiguity: You thrive in open‑ended environments where defining the problem is part of the job
• Collaborative: You enjoy working across domains and learning from experts in different fields

What You’ll Do

• Innovate: Identify and propose novel, high‑impact applications of AI/ML using large‑scale EHR data
• Research & Prototype: Design, develop, and evaluate state‑of‑the‑art models (e.g., foundation models, multimodal learning, causal ML, generative AI)
• Work Across Modalities: Integrate structured and unstructured EHR data with emerging data types such as genomics, imaging, and clinical notes
• Collaborate Cross‑Functionally: Partner with clinicians, data scientists, and product teams to translate research ideas into real‑world solutions
• Publish & Share: Contribute to top‑tier conferences/journals and represent Truveta in the research community
• Explore the Unknown: Proactively identify problems that have not yet been addressed and define new research directions

What We’re Looking For

Basic Qualifications

• Collaborate with researchers and engineers to design, develop, and refine large language models and generative models for various applications.
• Utilize your expertise in machine learning and natural language processing to develop novel algorithms and methodologies for generative modeling tasks.
• Implement, train, and fine‑tune LLM and GPT‑like models on large‑scale datasets to ensure optimal performance and accuracy.
• Stay up to date with the latest research advancements and techniques in the field of language modeling, generative modeling, and machine learning.
• Deliver the next generation of innovation in trustworthy healthcare.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with healthcare data (EHRs, claims, clinical notes) or biomedical data (genomics, imaging)
• Familiarity with cutting‑edge areas such as representation learning on longitudinal data
• Track record of publications in top‑tier ML or healthcare venues (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, MLHC, AMIA)
• Ability to work across disciplines and communicate with both technical and clinical stakeholders

Why Truveta?

Be a part of building something special. Now is the perfect time to join Truveta. We have strong, established leadership with decades of success. We are well‑funded. We are building a culture that prioritizes people and their passions across personal, professional and everything in between. Join us as we build an amazing company together.

We Offer

• Competitive compensation
• Company‑issued laptop and equipment
• Opportunities for future full‑time positions
• The range for this position is $50‑$60 per hour

Truveta is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, and empowering workplace. We believe that having employees, interns, and contractors with diverse backgrounds enables Truveta to better meet our mission and serve patients and health communities around the world. We recognize that opportunities in technology historically excluded and continue to disproportionately exclude Black and Indigenous people, people of color, people from working class backgrounds, people with disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ people. We strongly encourage individuals with these identities to apply even if you don’t meet all of the requirements.