Senior Applied Scientist (Reinforcement Learning)
Hippocratic AI
Menlo Park, CA, United States Posted October 29, 2026
Check how well your resume matches this job
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
Similar Jobs
Senior Applied Scientist, Reinforcement Learning
Hippocratic AI
Senior Applied Scientist
Hippocratic AI
Senior Fullstack Engineer, Reinforced Learning
Hippocratic AI
How to apply
You apply on Hippocratic AI’s own careers site. No account needed.
Apply on company siteUpload your resume and ARes scores it against this job in a few seconds. No account needed.
Already have access? Sign inAbout Hippocratic AI
See every open role at Hippocratic AI on ARes.
More Jobs at Hippocratic AI