Senior Multimodal AI Research Scientist

Rad AI; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

HSA with employer match

401(k) retirement plan

11 paid holidays

Flexible PTO

Annual company-wide offsite

Equipment stipend

Job summary

Rad AI is seeking a senior ML researcher to own a multimodal ML work-stream from problem definition to deployment in a remote US setting. You will translate clinical needs into ML objectives, build modern models, and design rigorous evaluations that reflect real-world radiology workflows.

You will collaborate across research, engineering, and clinical teams, mentoring others while shaping the roadmap and priorities.

Qualifications

• MS/PhD or equivalent practical experience in CS/EE/ML or related quantitative field.
• 4+ years of applied ML research or engineering experience.
• Experience turning research into production-ready ML systems.
• Ability to communicate technical tradeoffs to ML and clinical partners.

Responsibilities

• Own a multimodal ML work-stream from problem definition through experimentation, evaluation, deployment, and iteration.
• Translate clinical and product needs into clear ML objectives, data strategies, model approaches, and success criteria.
• Build and evaluate modern ML systems including transformers, self-supervised learning, weak supervision, detection, localization, and segmentation.
• Work with image, report, and other clinical data to develop systems that fit radiology workflows.
• Design rigorous evaluations with clinically meaningful operating points, robustness, and data slice coverage.
• Partner with engineering to productionize models and monitor performance after launch.
• Investigate failure modes such as domain shift, bias, hallucination, and workflow disruption.
• Communicate research findings and technical decisions clearly to ML experts and clinical partners.
• Contribute to the research roadmap by sharing learnings and prioritizing paths forward.
• Mentor less experienced researchers and engineers through collaboration and reviews.

Skills

Computer vision

NLP

Deep learning

Experiment design

Python

PyTorch

ML systems

Communications

Education

MS/PhD in CS/EE/ML/related field

Tools

Python

PyTorch

Job description

Rad AI is seeking a senior ML researcher to own a multimodal ML work-stream from problem definition to deployment in a remote US setting. You will translate clinical needs into ML objectives, build modern models, and design rigorous evaluations that reflect real-world radiology workflows.

You will collaborate across research, engineering, and clinical teams, mentoring others while shaping the roadmap and priorities.