Member of Technical Staff, Machine Learning
$205k - $300k • SF Office • FullTime
Posted 1y ago
Job Location
SF Office
Tech Stack
Remote Work Policy
On-site
Employment Type
FullTime
Categories
Machine Learning Engineer
About the job
Abridge is seeking research scientists with expertise in machine learning and natural language processing to advance the state of the art in medical NLP. This role involves contributing to groundbreaking work in areas such as conversation summarization, evidence extraction, and outcome prediction, with a strong research component that directly impacts real products used by clinicians. The ideal candidate will possess technical mastery, fluency with foundation models, a genuine interest in the medical domain, and strong critical thinking skills, contributing to the company's mission of powering deeper understanding in healthcare.
Responsibilities
- Advance the state of the art in medical NLP, including conversation summarization, evidence extraction, outcome prediction, evaluation techniques, and experimentation.
- Contribute to the wider research community through sharing and publishing original research.
- Define important problems, identify appropriate baselines, develop state-of-the-art methods, and ship them into production.
- Refine and innovate based on real-time feedback from clinicians.
- Be results-oriented when facing ambiguous problems and uncertain outcomes.
Requirements
- Strong research background demonstrated through papers and a graduate degree (MS or PhD) in Electrical Engineering, Computer Sciences, Mathematics, or equivalent experience.
- High-impact publications at peer-reviewed AI conferences (e.g., ACL, COLM, EACL, NAACL, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, Interspeech, ICASSP, SLT, MLHC, ML4H).
- Significant real-world impact demonstrated through open source contributions and deployed technology.
- Strong programming skills with proven experience crafting, prototyping, and delivering machine learning solutions into production.
- Experience with deep learning libraries (e.g., PyTorch, Jax, Tensorflow) and platforms, multi-GPU training, and statistical analyses of observational and experimental data.
Benefits
- Relocation assistance is available.
- 14 paid holidays
- Flexible PTO for salaried employees
- Accrued time off for hourly employees
- Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage for all full-time employees and their families.
- Generous HSA Contribution
- Paid Parental Leave
- Family Forming Benefits
- 401(k) Matching
- Personal Device Allowance
- Pre-tax Benefits (FSA and Commuter Benefits)
- Lifestyle Wallet
- Mental Health Support