Staff Machine Learning Scientist

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4 Locations
Remote or Hybrid
200K-260K Annually
Artificial Intelligence • Big Data • Healthtech • Machine Learning • Analytics • Biotech
Tempus is a technology company leading the adoption of AI to advance precision medicine and patient care.
The Role

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.

What You’ll Do:

Focus: Contribute to the design of the core architecture of LMMs and building of the infrastructure for training it at scale.

Responsibilities: You will contribute to the following activities: 

  • Design and definition of the architecture of the LMMs, considering different fusion strategies and modality-specific processing.

  • Implement, refine, benchmark and optimize model architectures using deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.

  • Develop and manage the end-to-end training pipelines, including data loading, preprocessing, and model training. Architect and deploy distributed training workflows, optimizing for performance across cloud GPU fleets.

  • Implement distributed training strategies to handle large-scale datasets and models.

  • Design and implement methods to fuse knowledge with the multimodal representations within the LMM.

  • Experiment with different approaches to enhance the model's understanding and reasoning abilities through knowledge integration.

  • Monitor and debug training processes, identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks.

  • Collaborate with the knowledge integration engineer to ensure the architecture can accommodate knowledge injection mechanisms.

Skills needed:

  • Deep understanding of deep learning principles and architectures (especially transformers).

  • Extensive experience with multimodal machine learning concepts and techniques (for example, different fusion methods for text and images). Solid understanding of optimization techniques for large-scale models.

  • Strong proficiency in Python and deep learning frameworks (PyTorch/TensorFlow) and model management libraries like HF Transformers.

  • Experience with training large multimodal models with distributed training frameworks (for example, Horovod, MosaicML) and GPU fleet management.

  • Strong understanding of knowledge representation concepts (for example, knowledge graphs, ontologies).

  • Experience with distributed training frameworks and cloud computing platforms (for example, GCP, Azure).

California Pay Range:

New York Pay Range - $220,000 - $260,000 USD

California Pay Range - $220,000 - $260,000 USD

Illinois Pay Range - $200,000 - $240,000 USD

Remote - USA Range - $200,000 - $240,000 USD

The expected salary range above is applicable if the role is performed from California and may vary for other locations (Colorado, Illinois, New York). 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.

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.

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. 

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HQ: Chicago, IL
3,775 Employees
Year Founded: 2015

What We Do

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.

For more information, visit tempus.com.

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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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