Research Scientist

The role

You will own the design and development of novel modeling approaches to advance clinical intelligence. You will drive research from problem definition to validated results using longitudinal patient data.

What you will do

• Own research initiatives end-to-end including problem formulation, experimental design, modeling, and evaluation
• Develop novel architectures, training methods, and objectives leveraging longitudinal patient data
• Work on verifiable reinforcement learning, mid-training, and post-training of foundation models
• Design rigorous evaluation methodologies to assess model reasoning, correctness, and clinical relevance
• Make and own tradeoffs between model capability, interpretability, and verifiability in high-stakes settings
• Collaborate with clinicians and engineers to define meaningful problem formulations grounded in real-world workflows
• Partner with ML engineers to ensure research translates into deployable systems

Required qualifications

• Strong foundation in machine learning, deep learning, or a related technical field
• Track record of driving ML research or novel modeling work from idea to validated results
• Experience working on ambiguous research problems with limited prior art
• Hands-on experience with PyTorch or similar frameworks
• Ability to operate independently in high-ambiguity environments with minimal guidance
• Strong technical judgment
• Comfort working in a fast-moving, early-stage environment
• Experience working on systems where decisions have real-world consequences (e.g., healthcare, finance, infrastructure)

Nice to have

• Publications at top-tier ML venues (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR)
• Experience with LLMs, NLP, or sequence modeling
• Experience with reinforcement learning or alignment methods
• Experience working with longitudinal or structured data at scale
• Experience working with clinical, biomedical, or scientific domains

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents
• Flexible PTO policy
• Paid parental leave
• Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot

About the company

Latent is the enterprise pharmacy intelligence platform, powered by a clinical agentic engine, that enables health systems to grow their pharmacy operations and serve more patients. Founded by Sriram “Sri” Somasundaram and Rishabh Jain, Latent has raised $80 million from Transformation Capital, Spark Capital, Conviction, General Catalyst, Y Combinator, and others.