Research Scientist

R1 RCM; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Top-of-market compensation

Flexible PTO

Hybrid in-office (min. 3 days per week

Comprehensive health benefits

401(k) matching

Brilliant mission-driven teammates

Job summary

R1 RCM Inc. in New York City is seeking an applied scientist to join our AI-native Healthcare Revenue OS team. You’ll design and evaluate models close to production, focusing on explainability, reinforcement learning, and long-context retrieval, and ship end-to-end experiments.

The role is hybrid (3 days onsite) at our SOHO Office Hub in NYC, with opportunities to collaborate across ML Ops and Product, publish, and scale research into real healthcare workflows.

Qualifications

• PhD in computer science or informatics with at least 3 years of industry experience (postdocs considered).
• Experience designing architectures and pipelines in PyTorch/TensorFlow/JAX with production-ready research
• Research expertise in interpretability, RL, retrieval-augmented generation, or long-context retrieval
• Comfortable running large-scale training on distributed infra (e.g., Ray, FSDP, Lightning)
• Track record of publications at top ML venues (NeurIPS, ICML, EMNLP, MLHC, CHIL)

Responsibilities

• Conduct applied research on real healthcare data, focusing on explainability, reinforcement learning, and long-context information retrieval
• Design experiments, train models at scale, and collaborate with ML Ops and Product teams to turn ideas into measurable user impact
• Stay close to literature while delivering production-ready code and end-to-end experiments

Skills

Applied research

Explainability

Reinforcement learning

Long-context information retrieval

Distributed training

Publications

Education

PhD in Computer Science / Informatics

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

JAX

Ray

FSDP

Lightning

Job description

About Us

Phare Health is now part of R1 and its AI innovation engine, R37 Lab , bringing Phare’s frontier clinical reasoning technology together with one of the largest healthcare platforms in the U.S.

At R37 and Phare, we are building the first AI-native Healthcare Revenue Operating System : a connected platform that reasons over full medical records, payer logic, and financial workflows to automate medical coding, billing, and follow-up.

Backed by real customers, real data, and real distribution, we operate on a national scale. Our agentic AI systems already power production workflows across 95 of the top 100 U.S. health systems , processing hundreds of millions of patient encounters each year, including:

• 180M+ Claims

• 550M+ Patient encounters

• 1.2B+ Workflow actions and outcomes each year

This is startup-level ownership with enterprise-level impact. If you want to build AI that ships, scales, and measurably improves how healthcare works, this is the place to do it.

The Role

We skew toward the RS/RE blend – applied scientists who feel comfortable getting close to production code. You’ll conduct applied research on real healthcare data, focused on explainability, reinforcement learning, and long-context information retrieval. You’ll move quickly from concept to deployment: designing experiments, training models at scale, and collaborating with ML Ops and Product teams to turn ideas into measurable user impact. You’ll stay close to the literature and close to production, coding your own experiments end-to-end.

We prefer this role to be Hybrid (3 days onsite) at our SOHO Office Hub in New York City.

About you

You have a PhD in computer science / informatics and at least 3 years of industry experience (will consider postdocs).

Additionally, you have:

• Experience designing novel architectures and pipelines in PyTorch/TensorFlow/JAX - strong preference for applied research which has made its way into production

• Research expertise in one or more of: interpretability, reinforcement learning, retrieval-augmented generation, or long-context information retrieval

• Comfortable running large-scale training and evaluation on distributed infrastructure (e.g., Ray, FSDP, Lightning)

• Track record publications at top ML venues (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, EMNLP, MLHC, CHIL)

Role Leveling

We are looking for candidates at various levels, ranging from Level 2 to Staff

• L2: Independently delivers a complete end-to-end project, owning design, implementation, and delivery of scoped work

• L3: Leads delivery of larger projects, handling increased technical complexity and ambiguity, providing light guidance to L2s on shared work

• Senior: Team Lead responsible for managing a portfolio of projects that contribute to major technical initiatives.

• Staff : Impact at the organizational level. Responsible for leading multiple teams or multiple broad initiatives simultaneously, ensuring that high-level technical goals are met across the entire organization.

Benefits

• Top-of-market compensation (salary + equity)

• Flexible PTO

• Hybrid in-office (min. 3 days per week)

• Comprehensive health benefits

• 401(k) matching

• Inspiring, brilliant, mission-driven teammates

Hiring Flow

• Intro call - your background & our mission alignment

• Technical deep-dives - pseudo-coding exercise and systems design (not Leetcode)

• Culture interview in person in NYC

• References

• Offer

Interview Logistics Notice

As part of our hiring process, selected candidates will participate in an in-person interview. Candidates located near one of our talent hubs—San Francisco, New York, Austin, or Chicago—will be scheduled to meet with team members in those locations. For candidates residing outside these areas, we will arrange travel to a hub for the interview. Travel accommodation will be provided as needed. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities and ensuring a fair and inclusive experience for all applicants.

For this US-based position, the base pay range is $140,000.00-$300,000 per year. Individual pay is determined by role, level, location, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

This job is eligible to participate in our annual bonus plan.

The healthcare system is always evolving — and it’s up to us to use our shared expertise to find new solutions that can keep up. On our growing team you’ll find the opportunity to constantly learn, collaborate across groups, and explore new paths for your career.

Our associates are given the chance to contribute, think boldly, and create meaningful work that makes a difference in the communities we serve around the world. We go beyond expectations in everything we do. Not only does that drive customer success and improve patient care, but that same enthusiasm is applied to giving back to the community and taking care of our team — including offering a competitive benefits package.

R1 RCM Inc. (“the Company”) is dedicated to the fundamentals of equal employment opportunity. The Company’s employment practices , including those regarding recruitment, hiring, assignment, promotion, compensation, benefits, training, discipline, and termination shall not be based on any person’s age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. Furthermore, the Company is dedicated to providing a workplace free from harassment based on any of the foregoing protected categories.

If you have a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the job application process, please contact us at 312-496-7709 for assistance.

CA PRIVACY NOTICE:

California resident job applicants can learn more about their privacy rights California Consent

For applicants outside of California:

Please review our policy - R1 Non-Disclosure Consent

To learn more, visit: R1RCM.com

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The healthcare system is always evolving — and it’s up to us to use our shared expertise to find new solutions that can keep up. On our growing team you’ll find the opportunity to constantly learn, collaborate across groups, and explore new paths for your career.

Our associates are given the chance to contribute, think boldly, and create meaningful work that makes a difference in the communities we serve around the world. We go beyond expectations in everything we do. Not only does that drive customer success and improve patient care, but that same enthusiasm is applied to giving back to the community and taking care of our team — including offering a competitive benefits package.

R1 RCM Inc. (“the Company") is dedicated to the fundamentals of equal employment opportunity. The Company’s employment practices , including those regarding recruitment, hiring, assignment, promotion, compensation, benefits, training, discipline, and termination shall not be based on any person’s age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. Furthermore, the Company is dedicated to providing a workplace free from harassment based on any of the foregoing protected categories.

If you have a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the job application process, please contact us at 312-496-7709 for assistance.

CA PRIVACY NOTICE:

California resident job applicants can learn more about their privacy rights California Consent

For applicants outside of California:

Please review our policy - R1 Non-Disclosure Consent

To learn more, visit: R1RCM.com

Visit us on Facebook

The healthcare system is always evolving — and it’s up to us to use our shared expertise to find new solutions that can keep up. On our growing team you’ll find the opportunity to constantly learn, collaborate across groups, and explore new paths for your career.

Our associates are given the chance to contribute, think boldly, and create meaningful work that makes a difference in the communities we serve around the world. We go beyond expectations in everything we do. Not only does that drive customer success and improve patient care, but that same enthusiasm is applied to giving back to the community and taking care of our team — including offering a competitive benefits package.