Research Scientist

Counsel Health; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 165,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Impact on healthcare

Growth opportunities

Competitive salary equity

Comprehensive health benefits

Job summary

Counsel Health is building the future of AI-enabled healthcare and seeks a Research Scientist to connect fundamental research with product innovation. You will set up large-scale experiments, deploy promising ideas, and apply cutting-edge theories to health-focused AI products.

Join a team working on machine learning, NLP, and agentic systems, collaborating with clinicians and engineers to turn theory into real-world clinical applications.

Qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years coding experience in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or R.
• 2 years owning and initiating research agendas.
• Experience in healthcare research or clinical data.

Responsibilities

• Model evaluation of AI models on clinical tasks with automated benchmarks and human assessments.
• Publish research papers to demonstrate impact across teams.
• Build end-to-end health-focused AI models, including training workflows for clinical use.
• Develop agentic systems, e.g., assist prescription drafting based on patient data.
• Prototype and run simulations to test hypotheses and methodologies.
• Share research trends and practices to grow the team’s culture.

Skills

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

R

Education

PhD in Computer Science

Job description

About Counsel

Counsel’s mission is to multiply the world’s healthcare capacity. We believe in a future in which every person has a personalized, AI-enabled doctor always in their pocket. To accomplish this, we’re building the first fully-vertical, AI-native medical group from the ground up. We’ve redesigned the entire clinical stack with custom AI tools that make our in-house physicians 10x faster and smarter. [learn more on our blog]

Since our founding in 2023, we have formed partnerships with leading healthcare organizations and are on track to serve hundreds of thousands of patients on our platform within the next year. We have raised over $35M from a16z, Google Ventures, Pear VC and other top-tier VC firms.

Our team combines deep expertise in medicine(Harvard, Mt. Sinai, Mass General, UCSF) and technology (MIT, Google, DeepMind, NVIDIA, Stripe, Meta) — and we’re looking for exceptional people to join us as we scale.

About The Role

Join us as we build the future of AI in healthcare! We are seeking a talented, driven, and experienced Research Scientist to join us in defining the future of AI human healthcare. As a Research Scientist at Counsel Health, you will bridge the gap between fundamental research and product innovation. You will set up large-scale tests, deploy promising ideas quickly, and apply the latest theories to develop new and improved health‑focused AI products.

From creating experiments and prototyping implementations to designing new architectures, you will work on real‑world problems that span the breadth of computer science—including machine learning, natural language processing, and agentic systems—while collaborating closely with our clinical and engineering teams.

What You’ll Do

• Model Evaluation: Evaluate AI models on relevant clinical tasks using both automated benchmarks and human‑based assessments to ensure safety and efficacy.


• Drive Research Impact: Write research papers to share findings and demonstrate impact across the team and the broader research community.


• Build Health‑AI Models: Build end‑to‑end health‑focused AI models, including pre‑training and post‑training workflows, specifically tailored for clinical environments.


• Create Novel Agentic Systems: Build agentic systems for both our patients and physicians. For example, you might build a system that pre‑drafts prescriptions for the physician based on a user’s presenting complaint, their past medical history and the suspected diagnosis.


• Prototype & Simulate: Develop prototypes or run simulations to assess research impact, finalize hypotheses, and refine methodologies.


• Knowledge Sharing: Help grow the research culture across teams by sharing research trends and practices within the community.

Who You Are

• Advanced Degree: PhD degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.


• Technical Expertise: Experience in coding with Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or R.


• AI/ML Specialization: Experience in agentic generative AI systems, Large Language Models (LLMs), and evaluation methodologies.


• Track Record: Publications in top‑tier AI/ML conferences or journals, such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, or CVPR.

What You’ll Bring

• You have 5 years of coding experience in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or R.


• You have 2 year of experience owning and initiating research agendas.


• You have prior experience in healthcare research or working with clinical data.


• You are familiar with Healthcare Data formats, including FHIR and OMOP.


• You thrive on working alongside exceptional teammates and derive energy from collaborative environments.


• You are comfortable working in a fast‑paced, high‑growth environment where you can flex into both research and practical implementation.

Role Location

NYC – hybrid, Boston – hybrid, or Ireland – remote

What We Offer

• Impact: Be at the forefront and contribute to groundbreaking, AI‑driven healthcare experiences, directly interface with execs at the world’s leading tech & healthcare orgs


• Growth: Significant opportunities for broad ownership and professional development within our rapidly scaling startup


• Compensation: Competitive salary equity


• Benefits: Comprehensive healthcare, vision dental, 401K, Unlimited PTO, Parental Leave

Our Values

• Patients come first. We are clinicians 1st, technologists 2nd. We act with patient trust/safety at the center of every decision.


• Innovate with optimism. We are optimistic as we build the future of care delivery from first principles. Challenge the status quo when needed, no sacred cows.


• Right answer wins. Debate openly and pick the strongest path. We optimize for the company, not functions. We win and lose as a team.


• Simplicity over complexity. We choose clear, elegant solutions and avoid adding complexity that does not serve patients or the team.


• Do fewer things, well. We focus, and hold ourselves to the highest bar and pursue excellence in those areas.

*Recruitment Fraud Notice. Counsel Health only communicates with candidates using official @counselhealth.com email addresses. We will never ask for payment or financial information during the interview process. If you receive suspicious outreach claiming to be from Counsel Health, please contact us at [e-mail]. Counsel Health participates in E-Verify. All newly hired employees are processed through the E-Verify system to confirm employment eligibility. Compensation Range: $165K – $220K