Hippocratic AI · 13 hours ago
Staff Applied Scientist
Palo Alto, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
5+ years expHippocratic AI is the leading generative AI company in healthcare, focused on creating safety-first AI solutions for clinical conversations. The Staff Applied Scientist will work with a team of researchers and engineers to develop Large Language Models aimed at transforming patient outcomes through innovative generative intelligence.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIHealth CareInformation Technology
Responsibilities
Provide a dynamic opportunity to work with a team of world-class research scientists and engineers, who are pursuing scientific and technical innovation to help solve complex challenges through the use of Generative AI technology
Contribute to the development of Large Language Models (LLMs) aimed at creating disruptive safety-focused generative intelligence for Healthcare
Play a crucial role in developing, improving, and exploring the capabilities of LLMs to solve complex real-world problems geared towards building Conversational AI products
Work on post-training: Instruction tuning and reinforcement learning from human and AI feedback
Enable multilinguality: Post-training LLMs to talk fluently in any language, with medical accuracy and safety
Facilitate continual learning: Enabling LLMs to evolve and adapt over time and learn from previous experiences over human interactions
Tailor LLMs to meet domain-specific requirements
Optimize the computational efficiency and cost-effectiveness of LLM deployments
Qualification
Required
PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field
5+ years of industry experience in NLP and machine learning, with a focus on LLMs
Strong programming skills in Python
Experience with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow
Experience with large-scale data processing and distributed computing
Experience with training (pre-training / fine-tuning / RLHF / post-training) autoregressive language models like LLaMA, GPT-x, etc
Experience with open-source LLM platforms and training stack (e.g., HuggingFace, Deepspeed etc.)
Experience in healthcare or life sciences is a plus
Preferred
Strong preference for individuals that can work onsite in our HQ located in Palo Alto, CA, but will consider individuals throughout the U.S
Company
Hippocratic AI
Hippocratic AI is a healthcare technology company that develops safety-focused large-language models for medical applications.
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$402MKey Investors
AvenirKleiner PerkinsNVentures
2025-11-03Series C· $126M
2025-01-09Series B· $141M
2024-09-19Series A· $17M
Leadership Team
Alex Miller
Co-Founder
Amy McCarthy
Chief Nursing Officer
Recent News
2026-01-11
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