Job Description
Principal AI Scientist - Healthcare
New York, New York - 3 days/week hybrid
$250,000-275,000 base salary + bonus + equity
THE COMPANY
Harnham is partnering with an innovative health-tech startup building patient-focused agentic AI and LLM applications to advance capabilities in medical claims in hospitals. The AI engineering team builds scalable, data-driven solutions that personalize user experiences and equip care providers with actionable insights, all while working with large-scale infrastructure and diverse technologies.
THE ROLE
- You will be responsible for machine learning model research, building and development for the company's agentic AI product across HUNDREDS of hospitals
- You will report directly to the founding team and work closely on technical direction
- Own applied AI research and quickly build into production, particularly focusing on novel AI and LLM applications
- You will directly work with production team on implement and design code and build out to production using various machine learning and LLM techniques, owning machine learning modeling
- You will play an integral role of building out the AI team and scaling out its product
- Act as a thought leader role for AI across the business, mentoring junior team members
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
The successful Principal AI Scientist will likely have the following skills and experience:
- 10+ years of commercial experience preferred with a focus on applied machine learning research, building production-grade models with NLP and LLMs ideally with voice, multi-modal or chatbot systems
- Experience working in a scaling startup is highly preferred
- Expertise in Python (TensorFlow, PyTorch) for production-grade work
- Commercial experience building novel AI platforms with large datasets
- History of working with and managing real-time AI applications in production settings
- Cloud experience in AWS, Azure or GCP
- DevOps exposure with CI/CD pipelines preferred
- History of working on models from concept to production / end-to-end / 0-1
- Applied research background in a commercial setting required
- Publication and/or patent history highly preferred
- Experience in settings wearing multiple hats
- Domain experience in healthcare, health-tech, med-tech or similar a plus; EHR, EMR, claims, HEOR or other medical data exposure highly preferred
- History of partnering with non-technical stakeholders required
- Experience owning projects
- PhD degree in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Linguistics, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Physics or similar
THE BENEFITS
A competitive base salary of $250,000-275,000 + benefits + equity
HOW TO APPLY
Please register your interest by sending your résumé to Tim Jonas via the Apply link on this page.
KEYWORDS
Machine Learning | AI | Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Applied Research | Health-tech | Healthcare | Medical | Startup | Deployment | Production | LLMs | LLM | Large Language Models | GenAI | Gen AI | Generative AI | Voice Bots | Chatbots | Natural Language Processing | EHR | Electronic Health | Electronic Medical | HEOR | Claims Data | Patient | Hospital | Docker | Kubernetes | Weights & Biases | PyTorch | TensorFlow | Publications | Patents