Member of Frontier Research

About the team: Frontier Research is the team behind the Ortet Health Model. We work on the core scientific problem of the company: how to create continuously improving intelligence for every patient. The agenda spans data, training, and evaluation in realistic settings, intersecting with causality, multimodality, environments, and agents. Your research will ship: models here are built to enter a closed learning loop with practice, and results are measured in care. We are hiring across pretraining, post-training, evaluation, agents, multimodality, and data.

What you’ll do: Define the research agenda with the founding team, across foundation models, causality, multimodality, agentsResearch and build the Ortet Health Model, from data and training through evaluation in real-world settingsPursue the problems you judge most important, with the compute and freedom to go deep, from design to executionSet the scientific standards and research culture of OrtetWhat we look forRequired: Hands-on experience training and evaluating foundation models, and making judgment calls in open-ended problemsReadiness to go deep on clinical, care, and biology practice, and to focus on any research the mission needsThe drive to own problems end to end, from question to deployed result, with all the unglamorous work in between A track record of strong machine learning research, shown through publications, models, or systemsNice to have: Depth in causal inference, multimodal learning, reinforcement learning, interpretability, or agentsExperience with clinical, biological, or other health dataExperience carrying research into productionRange to explore with creativity and to exploit with rigorWhat we offerCompetitive salary and meaningful equity. Top-tier health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents, plus 401(k). The compute and resources your research demands. And scope you will find nowhere else: the problems you define here reshape the industry nobody can opt out. ProcessOur process adapts to each candidate. It typically includes several conversations with the founding team, technical interviews, a take-home, and a research talk. Ortet is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.