AI Research Scientist

Sprinter Health • San Francisco, CA

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

We’re looking for an AI Research Scientist to advance the methodological frontier of AI in healthcare. This role is ideal for someone who has demonstrated strong research taste, deep technical foundations, and the ability to turn open-ended problems into rigorous scientific contributions. You will develop and own a research agenda aligned with Sprinter’s company strategy. Your work may include novel architectures, new training or evaluation techniques, long-horizon research bets, peer-reviewed validation studies, patents, and methods that ultimately graduate into production systems. The ideal candidate is deeply technical, scientifically rigorous, and excited to collaborate closely with clinicians, product leaders, and applied AI teams. You understand that healthcare validation standards are higher than benchmark culture alone, and you are energized by the opportunity to produce research that is both scientifically meaningful and practically impactful.

Requirements

• Demonstrated ability to produce novel research, including identifying open problems, designing rigorous experiments, and writing work to a peer-review standard.
• Deep ML foundations and genuine depth in at least one relevant area, such as LLMs, agents, uncertainty, causality, multimodal learning, clinical AI, or related fields.
• Strong engineering ability, including the ability to run your own experiments at scale.
• Strong research taste and the ability to distinguish incremental work from meaningful methodological contribution.
• Comfort working in open-ended, ambiguous environments where the right research direction may need to be shaped from first principles.
• Interest in clinical collaboration and applied healthcare impact.
• Understanding of healthcare validation standards, including the importance of external validation, prospective evaluation, data governance, and real-world deployment constraints.

Nice To Haves

• First-author publications at top technical venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, or related conferences.
• Publications in leading clinical AI or healthcare venues such as Nature Medicine, NEJM AI, npj Digital Medicine, CHIL, MLHC, or similar.
• Experience in academia, industry research labs, or research-heavy teams at AI-native healthcare companies.
• Experience collaborating with clinicians, clinical researchers, or healthcare operators.
• Familiarity with IRB processes, clinical data governance, or healthcare model validation.
• Dual literacy across machine learning and clinical collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Develop and own a research agenda aligned with Sprinter’s long-term AI and company strategy.
• Identify open problems, position them against the literature, and design experiments that isolate meaningful contributions.
• Develop novel methods, architectures, training approaches, evaluation techniques, or validation frameworks.
• Produce publications, patents, peer-reviewed validation studies, and other evidence artifacts.
• Translate promising research into methods and tools that applied teams can use in production.
• Raise the scientific bar across applied AI and engineering teams.
• Review methodologies, evaluation approaches, and experimental designs.
• Advise teams on hard technical decisions, especially around model performance, reliability, evaluation, uncertainty, and validation.
• Help determine whether a result is meaningful, reproducible, or an artifact.
• Mentor applied researchers and engineers on rigorous ML research practices.
• Maintain an external research presence through publications, talks, academic collaborations, and participation in relevant research communities.
• Collaborate with clinical partners on validation studies, including work that may involve IRB review, data governance, external validation, or prospective evaluation.
• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Clinical, Engineering, and Leadership teams to ensure research priorities map to meaningful company and patient impact.

Benefits

• Meaningful pre-IPO equity
• Medical, dental, and vision plans 100% paid for you and your dependents
• Flexible PTO + 10 paid holidays per year
• 401(k) with match
• 16-week parental leave policy for birthing parent, 8 weeks for all other parents
• HSA + FSA contributions
• Life insurance, plus short and long-term disability coverage
• Free daily lunch in-office
• Annual learning stipend

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed