Modeling Scientist: Population AI & Transformers (Equity)

Tenera, Inc; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Tenera, Inc is seeking a Research Scientist in Modeling to build population models from user data and deploy them into customer deployments. You will design and train models from traditional ML to transformer architectures, using dedicated compute resources to iterate based on deployment feedback.

You will work closely with Forward Deployment to turn modeling ideas into validated solutions, balancing practicality with rigor and communicating results clearly to customers.

Qualifications

• Applied ML work with measurable results and explanations of choices.
• Hands-on pretraining of models from scratch including data prep and objectives.
• Experience designing and training transformer models.

Responsibilities

• Translate customer needs into population models and segments.
• Build and train models end-to-end, including custom transformers.
• Develop traditional ML models with strong baselines and evaluations.
• Create training datasets and sampling strategies from diverse data.
• Run controlled experiments and ablations with the evaluations team.
• Collaborate to deploy models into customer deployments and reusable platform capabilities.

Skills

Applied machine learning

Pretraining models

Transformer models

Python

Experimentation

Model evaluation

Collaboration

Tools

PyTorch

scikit-learn

Job description

Tenera, Inc is seeking a Research Scientist in Modeling to build population models from user data and deploy them into customer deployments. You will design and train models from traditional ML to transformer architectures, using dedicated compute resources to iterate based on deployment feedback.

You will work closely with Forward Deployment to turn modeling ideas into validated solutions, balancing practicality with rigor and communicating results clearly to customers.