Senior Applied Scientist (Reinforcement Learning)

Hippocratic AI

Menlo Park, CA, United States Posted October 29, 2026

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Job Description

Join our team as a Senior Applied Scientist specializing in Reinforcement Learning. In this role, you will be responsible for improving our models' clinical reasoning, safety, and alignment through the development and implementation of post-training methods. Your work will have a direct impact on millions of patients across diverse clinical use cases. You will collaborate with research, engineering, and clinical teams, and have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in the healthcare industry.

  • Ownership of the Reinforcement Learning (RL) and On-Policy Distillation (OPD) post-training pipeline to enhance clinical reasoning and safety.
  • Designing and implementing RL and OPD post-training methods, including RLHF, RLVR, and OPD.
  • Building and evaluating reward models, verifiers, and LLM-as-judge pipelines to improve model performance.
  • Experience with RLHF, RLVR, LLM-as-judge or similar methods for LLM post-training
  • Strong Python and PyTorch coding skills
  • 3+ years or experience in NLP, LLM training, or RL
  • Experience with large-scale (50B+ parameter and multi-node) LLM training
  • 1+ years experience in RL for LLM post-training
  • MS or PhD in CS or relevant field
Required Skills
collaboration LLM Python PyTorch natural language processing Node.js
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