Staff AI Scientist, Foundation Models

🕒 September 14

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $220k - $260k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧠 AI Research Scientist

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Tempus AI

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2015

🏥 Healthcare

🧬 Biotechnology

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Healthcare • Biotechnology • Artificial Intelligence

Tempus AI is an advanced healthcare technology company that specializes in precision medicine through the use of AI and genomic profiling. The company provides innovative solutions across various medical fields, including oncology, cardiology, neurology, and psychiatry. Tempus enables healthcare providers to make informed treatment decisions by integrating real-world data, clinical trial matching, and algorithmic testing to improve patient outcomes and accelerate drug development.

📋 Description

• Serve as a senior individual contributor within the foundation model team • Provide hands-on technical contributions and help shape model architecture, research direction, and execution • Collaborate with scientists and engineers to take AI technologies from research through validation and deployment • Design, train, and advance state-of-the-art foundation models across large-scale multimodal clinical and molecular data • Drive innovation in pretraining, representation learning, self-supervised learning, multimodal learning, model scaling, and post-training • Develop and adapt foundation-model-derived models for prognosis, treatment outcome prediction, patient stratification, biomarker discovery, clinical trial applications, and partner-specific AI solutions • Contribute original ideas to Tempus’s foundation model research agenda • Publish impactful research and engage with the broader AI research community • Work with cross-functional teams to ensure models and AI products meet quality, validation, and regulatory standards for healthcare and life sciences applications

🎯 Requirements

• Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related quantitative field • 3+ years of industry experience driving end-to-end development of machine learning models from research and experimentation to validation and production deployment • Demonstrated expertise in large-scale deep learning and foundation model development • Experience in pretraining, representation learning, self-supervised learning, multimodal modeling, or post-training • Strong track record of original, high-impact research demonstrated through peer-reviewed publications in leading machine learning, computer vision, NLP, or related AI venues • Proficiency in Python and the modern deep learning stack, such as PyTorch • Strong product-level coding skills for model development • Solid understanding of industry-standard software engineering and development practices • Experience with computer vision, NLP, pathology, longitudinal EHR, genomics, or other biomedical modalities is preferred • Publications in medical or healthcare AI and prior experience developing foundation models are strongly preferred • Prior work in medical or healthcare AI is highly valued but not required

🏖️ Benefits

• Incentive compensation may be offered • Restricted stock units may be offered • Medical and other benefits depending on the position

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