Research Engineer

The role

You will work on production use cases of LLMs and other ML techniques to solve business problems and create AI applications. You will have end-to-end responsibility for projects including definition, design, development, launch, and success.

What you will do

• Scope and spearhead AI augmentation and automation projects
• Stay on top of emerging AI methods and guide model adoption decisions
• Establish research strategies including experimentation and evaluation protocols
• Develop novel algorithms and techniques for NLP, data extraction, and autonomous reasoning
• Automate complex workflows for insurance coverage, affordability, and fulfillment
• Combine AI/ML approaches for document classification and data extraction
• Automate multi-step processes using RPA/scraping to navigate third-party platforms
• Build a state machine to drive system decisions and handle failure modes
• Scale across drug classes, patient populations, and provider markets
• Make data and ML pipelines robust to variation in input data formats

Required qualifications

• Strong programming skills and general Computer Science knowledge
• Research background in ML/NLP demonstrated through publications in top-tier conferences or significant open-source contributions
• Experience working on complex ML problems and deploying solutions in production environments
• Deep understanding of modern ML methods including transformer architectures, attention mechanisms, reinforcement learning, and multimodal models
• Proficiency in deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX
• Strong written and verbal communication
• Track record of moving quickly, finding shortcuts, and going to unreasonable lengths to deliver on goals
• High NPS with former teammates

Benefits

• Meaningful equity
• Fully covered medical, vision, and dental insurance
• Memberships for One Medical, Talkspace, Teladoc, and Kindbody
• Unlimited paid time off (PTO)
• 16 weeks of parental leave
• 401K plan setup
• FSA option
• Commuter benefits
• DashPass
• Lunch at the office every day
• Dinner at the office after 6:30 pm

About the company

Forus is building an AI-powered network that connects doctors, pharmacies, payers, and biopharma to accelerate new science to patients. The platform automates complexity between prescribing medicine and patients starting treatment.