Staff ML Research Scientist

Rad AI; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Rad AI, a US-based healthcare AI company, seeks a Staff Machine Learning Research Scientist to define and drive applied research in NLP and clinical AI. You will explore LLMs, retrieval, representation learning, and multimodal modeling with ownership from research to product outcomes.

Collaborating with clinicians, engineers, and product leaders, you will shape evaluation standards, ensure reliability, and contribute to strategic initiatives spanning computer vision and vision-language work.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end applied research: frame the problem, design experiments, ship to production, and monitor impact against real-world metrics.
• Set technical direction across LLMs, retrieval, and multimodal; run ablations/error analysis that change product decisions.
• Build evaluation that matters: link offline metrics to online outcomes; define thresholds, monitoring, and rollback.
• Partner to deliver with engineering and product, and, when relevant, clinicians/domain experts, to align data, success criteria, and timelines.

Skills

NLP

LLMs

Retrieval

Multimodal

Job description

About Rad AI

At Rad AI, we're on a mission to transform healthcare with artificial intelligence. Founded by a radiologist, our AI-driven solutions are revolutionizing radiology - saving time, reducing burnout, and improving patient care. With one of the largest proprietary radiology report datasets in the world, our AI has helped uncover hundreds of new cancer diagnoses and reduced error rates in tens of millions of radiology reports by nearly 50%.

Rad AI has secured over $140M in funding, including a recently oversubscribed Series C ($68M round) led by Transformation Capital, bringing our valuation to $528M. Our investors include Khosla Ventures, World Innovation Lab, Gradient Ventures, Cone Health Ventures, and others - all backing our mission to empower physicians with cutting-edge AI.

Our latest advancements in generative AI are used by thousands of radiologists daily, supporting more than one-third of radiology groups and healthcare systems and nearly 50% of all medical imaging in the U.S. at partners including Cone Health, Jefferson Einstein Health, Geisinger, Guthrie Healthcare System, and Henry Ford Health.

Recognized as one of the most promising healthcare AI companies by CB Insights and AuntMinnie, and ranked by Deloitte as the 19th fastest-growing company in North America, we are building AI-powered solutions that make a real impact. Most recently, Rad AI was named to CNBC's Disruptor 50 list, highlighting the innovation and momentum behind our mission.

Why Join Us

We're looking for a Staff Machine Learning Research Scientist to help define and drive Rad AI's next generation of applied research in NLP and clinical AI.

We work across LLMs, retrieval, representation learning, speech and multimodal modeling, and we care as much about evaluation and reliability as we do about state-of-the-art results. You will have scope, ownership, and a direct line from research to product.

You'll collaborate closely with clinicians, engineers, and product leaders to translate foundational research into production-scale systems that improve outcomes for doctors and patients alike. As we grow, you will help shape standards for model quality, safety, and observability, and contribute to strategic initiatives that include computer vision and vision-language work.

What You'll Do

• Own end-to-end applied research: frame the problem, design experiments, ship to production, and monitor impact against real-world metrics.
• Set technical direction across LLMs, retrieval, and multimodal; run ablations/error analysis that change product decisions.
• Build evaluation that matters: link offline metrics to online outcomes; define thresholds, monitoring, and rollback.
• Partner to deliver with engineering and product, and, when relevant, clinicians/domain experts, to align data, success criteria, and timelines.
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