Passionate about precision medicine and advancing the healthcare industry?
Recent advancements in underlying technology have finally made it possible for AI to impact clinical care in a meaningful way. Tempus' proprietary platform connects an entire ecosystem of real-world evidence to deliver real-time, actionable insights to physicians, providing critical information about the right treatments for the right patients, at the right time.
We are seeking a highly skilled and innovative Senior ML Generative AI Scientist to join our research and development team. As a Senior ML Generative AI Scientist, you will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and implementing cutting-edge generative artificial intelligence models and algorithms specifically tailored for healthcare applications. Your work will contribute to improving patient care, optimizing clinical workflows, and advancing medical research. This position offers an exciting opportunity to leverage the power of generative AI to revolutionize healthcare and make a significant impact on people's lives.
What you'll do:
- Responsible for developing innovative and practical Generative AI applications for Tempus product line using Tempus’ large multi-modal datasets spanning Clinical data, Imaging data, and Molecular data.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with other teams to understand needs and requirements, ensuring the Foundation Model/LLMs align with strategic company objectives of embedding AI into our product portfolio.
- Explore and evaluate new technologies and methodologies to enhance the technical capabilities of our team, ensuring that we remain at the cutting edge of ML innovation. Conduct research and exploration of generative AI techniques, with a specific emphasis on healthcare applications.
- Contribute to thought leadership and continue to develop up-to-date knowledge of Generative AI trends and apply this expertise. Establish and drive research opportunities and collaboration with partner organizations.
- Design and implement generative AI models tailored for healthcare scenarios. Develop appropriate evaluation metrics that align with healthcare outcomes and clinical requirements, and optimize models to achieve established performance criteria.
- Stay actively involved in the healthcare and AI research communities. Attend relevant conferences, workshops, and seminars. Publish research findings in reputable scientific venues. Collaborate with academic and industry partners to advance the state-of-the-art in generative AI for healthcare.
Required Qualifications:
- PostDoc or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Biology, or a related field. A strong academic background with a focus on generative AI and healthcare applications is highly preferred.
- 5+ years of industry experience or equivalent.
- Prior experience in pre-training and fine-tuning of large language models
- Strong collaboration and communication abilities.
- Strong track record in publications, patents, and/or launched products in this space
- Solid knowledge of machine learning concepts, including deep learning, optimization algorithms, regularization techniques, transformer architecture. Extensive experience in developing and implementing generative AI models, such as GANs, VAEs, and related architectures.
- Experience in applying Large Language Models to practical industry challenges, including strong intuition on where to apply generative AI models versus more traditional models
- Proficiency in programming languages commonly used in AI research, such as Python and TensorFlow/PyTorch. Experience with healthcare-specific frameworks (e.g., DICOM, FHIR) is a plus.
Preferred / Nice-to-have Qualifications:
- Experience in temporal modeling, and multi-modal time series data
- Experience in a late-stage startup environment
- Experience building and bringing to practical use, knowledge graphs and graph-based machine learning models
- Expertise with embeddings, multimodal fusion
- Experience working with sensitive healthcare data, medical imaging modalities, clinical workflows, and healthcare terminology. Familiarity with electronic health records (EHRs), and medical imaging formats (e.g., DICOM), molecular data is advantageous.
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The expected salary range below is applicable if the role is performed from [New York] and may vary for other locations. Actual salary may vary based on qualifications and experience. Tempus offers a full range of benefits, which may include incentive compensation, restricted stock units, medical and other benefits, depending on the position.
New York Pay Range
$140,000—$190,000 USD
We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Additionally, for remote roles open to individuals in unincorporated Los Angeles – including remote roles- Tempus reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment: engaging positively with customers and other employees; accessing confidential information, including intellectual property, trade secrets, and protected health information; and appropriately handling such information in accordance with legal and ethical standards. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
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We bring together one of the world’s largest libraries of multimodal clinical and molecular data with a robust suite of AI tools to help physicians personalize care in real time, connect patients with therapies and clinical trials, and enable partners to accelerate discovery and development of new treatments.
With ~8 million de-identified research records and 350+ petabytes of data, Tempus partners with more than half of U.S. oncologists and the majority of the top 20 global pharma companies. Our teams are pioneering work across oncology, neurology, psychiatry, cardiology, and beyond—transforming how care is delivered and therapies are developed.
At Tempus, every role contributes to our mission: to help each patient benefit from the experiences of those who came before.
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We’re looking for people who can change the world. People who question the status quo and refuse to shy away from tough problems. For builders who are never done building, and the learners who are never done learning. Passionate individuals with undying curiosity who want to take on one of the greatest challenges humanity has ever faced—head on.
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