Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Optexity is a product-driven research lab building clinical reasoning and computer use models using proprietary data from clinics and hospitals. The AI Research Engineer / AI Research Intern will define and execute research on clinical reasoning models, benchmarks, and computer-use models while owning the training and evaluation pipeline end to end. The role also involves analyzing real-world clinical data and publishing technical reports and papers.
Responsibilities
- Work with real, proprietary clinical data from hospital and clinic partners to surface insights that shape model and product direction
- Build clinical reasoning models that improve physician and clinic workflows
- Design and publish benchmarks that expose where current LLMs fall short on real clinical reasoning
- Evaluate computer-use models on real-world tasks
- Own the training and evaluation pipeline end to end
- Take open-ended problems from question to working model, with minimal predefined structure
- Write up findings as technical reports and papers
Skills
- Has real research experience — can define a problem, not just execute a known one
- Has trained models before (not just fine-tuned APIs) and is fluent in Python
- Master's or higher in ML or a related field
- Energized by open-ended problems and ambiguity
- Wants to publish, not just ship
- Takes ownership without needing to be guided
- Genuinely wants a startup over big tech — speed and ambiguity as defaults, not exceptions
- Prior founder or founding-engineer experience
- Strong product taste
- Worked on healthcare datasets before
- Built LLM-powered products before
- Ambitions to start your own company someday — we'll support that path
Benefits
- Direct, daily work with the founders, plus exposure to board and investor conversations
- Real ownership of technical direction, with scope that grows as the company does
- Full compute and data to do the work properly
- Meaningful equity
- Visa sponsorship available
- We'll support the path to starting your own company someday
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