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Research Engineer, Post-Training & Agents

New York, NYFull-time

Build the post-training and agentic systems that turn raw models into reliable medical operators. This role sits at the boundary between frontier research and product deployment.

Responsibilities

  • Develop fine-tuning, preference optimization, and tool-use pipelines for medical assistant behavior
  • Build agent scaffolds that can navigate records, care protocols, scheduling, logistics, and follow-up execution
  • Partner with product and clinical teams to define realistic tasks, benchmarks, and failure modes
  • Instrument experiments to measure quality, latency, cost, and safety tradeoffs
  • Ship research infrastructure that accelerates iteration across the applied research team

Requirements

  • Strong software engineering ability with experience in modern ML systems
  • Track record working on post-training, agent systems, evaluation, or model behavior improvement
  • Excellent Python skills and comfort working close to production systems
  • Ability to rapidly prototype while maintaining scientific rigor
  • Interest in building safe, high-reliability AI for real-world healthcare environments
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