Senior Applied Scientist, Reinforcement Learning

Hippocratic AI Inc.; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Hippocratic AI in Menlo Park seeks a highly skilled researcher to own the RL and OPD post-training pipeline end to end. You will improve models’ clinical reasoning, safety, and alignment as they interact with millions of patients across diverse clinical use cases.

Applicants should have 3+ years in NLP/LLM training or RL, 1+ year in RL for LLM post-training, and strong Python/PyTorch skills. Experience with RLHF, RLVR, or LLM-as-judge is required to contribute to our safety-first healthcare

Qualifications

• MS or PhD in CS or relevant field is required.
• 3+ years of experience in NLP, LLM training, or RL.
• 1+ years experience in RL for LLM post-training.
• Experience with large-scale (50B+ parameter and multi-node) LLM training.
• Strong Python and PyTorch coding skills.
• Experience with RLHF, RLVR, LLM-as-judge or similar methods for LLM post-training.

Responsibilities

• Design RL and OPD post-training methods (RLHF, RLVR, OPD, etc.).
• Build and evaluate reward models, verifiers, and LLM-as-judge pipelines.
• Develop conversational AI environments and simulations for healthcare RL training with synthetic data.
• Automate post-training loops with agents (auto-research).
• Run rigorous experiments to understand drivers of post-training gains.
• Collaborate with research, engineering, and clinical teams.

Skills

NLP

RL

Python

PyTorch

LLM training

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

MS or PhD in CS or relevant field

Tools

PyTorch

Distributed training

Job description

About Us

Hippocratic AI is the leading generative AI company in healthcare. We have the only system that can have safe, autonomous, clinical conversations with patients. We have trained our own LLMs as part of our Polaris constellation, resulting in a system with over 99.9% accuracy.

Why Join Our Team

Reinvent healthcare with AI that puts safety first. We're building the world's first healthcare-only, safety-focused LLM — a breakthrough platform designed to transform patient outcomes at a global scale. This is category creation.

Work with the people shaping the future. Hippocratic AI was co-founded by CEO Munjal Shah and a team of physicians, hospital leaders, AI pioneers, and researchers from institutions like El Camino Health, Johns Hopkins, Washington University in St. Louis, Stanford, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and NVIDIA.

Backed by the world's leading healthcare and AI investors. We recently raised a $126M Series C at a $3.5B valuation, led by Avenir Growth, bringing total funding to $404M with participation from CapitalG, General Catalyst, a16z, Kleiner Perkins, Premji Invest, UHS, Cincinnati Children's, WellSpan Health, John Doerr, Rick Klausner, and others.

Build alongside the best in healthcare and AI. Join experts who've spent their careers improving care, advancing science, and building world-changing technologies — ensuring our platform is powerful, trusted, and truly transformative.

Location Requirement

We believe the best ideas happen together. To support fast collaboration and a strong team culture, this role is expected to be in our Menlo Park office five days a week, unless otherwise specified.

About the Role

LLM post-training is where raw capability becomes reliable, safe behavior — and in healthcare, the stakes are as high as they get. You'll own the Reinforcement Learning (RL) and On-Policy Distillation (OPD) post-training pipeline end to end, to improve our models' clinical reasoning, safety, and alignment. Your models will be deployed to interact with millions of patients across diverse clinical use cases.

What You’ll Do

• Design RL and OPD post-training methods (RLHF, RLVR, OPD, etc.)
• Build and evaluate reward models, verifiers, and LLM-as-judge pipelines
• Develop conversational AI environments and simulations for healthcare RL training with synthetic data
• Automate post-training loops with agents (auto-research)
• Run rigorous experiments to understand what drives post-training gains
• Collaborate with research, engineering, and clinical teams

What You Bring

• MS or PhD in CS or relevant field
• 3+ years or experience in NLP, LLM training, or RL
• 1+ years experience in RL for LLM post-training
• Experience with large-scale (50B+ parameter and multi-node) LLM training
• Strong Python and PyTorch coding skills
• Experience with RLHF, RLVR, LLM-as-judge or similar methods for LLM post-training

Why Join Hippocratic AI

Reinvent healthcare with AI that puts safety first. We're building the world's first healthcare-only, safety-focused LLM — a breakthrough platform designed to transform patient outcomes at a global scale. This is category creation.

Work with the people shaping the future. Hippocratic AI was co-founded by CEO Munjal Shah and a team of physicians, hospital leaders, AI pioneers, and researchers from institutions like El Camino Health, Johns Hopkins, Washington University in St. Louis, Stanford, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and NVIDIA.

Backed by the world's leading healthcare and AI investors. We recently raised a $126M Series C at a $3.5B valuation, led by Avenir Growth, bringing total funding to $404M with participation from CapitalG, General Catalyst, a16z, Kleiner Perkins, Premji Invest, UHS, Cincinnati Children's, WellSpan Health, John Doerr, Rick Klausner, and others.

Build alongside the best in healthcare and AI. Join experts who've spent their careers improving care, advancing science, and building world-changing technologies — ensuring our platform is powerful, trusted, and truly transformative.

Equal Opportunity

Hippocratic AI is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are committed to building a team that reflects the patients we serve. We actively encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds. If you require accommodations during the hiring process, please contact [e-mail].