Applied Scientist (AI for Healthcare)

Kadence is partnered with a AI first healthcare company building agentic systems for medical coding. We are looking for an Applied Scientist with strong LLM reasoning and agents background. We need a coder and platform builder, who also has strong research background.Target Compensation is between $160k-220k base (depending on experience), plus equity.Location is Bay Area, SF (hybrid )What you'll doImprove LLM reasoning using post-training (SFT, RL)Build agentic systems (multi-step, real-world tasks)Design evaluation frameworks to measure model qualityOptimize models for performance + cost efficiencyWhat we're looking forStrong ML/NLP background with LLMs or transformers (1.5 years+ industry exp.)Experience with RL, fine-tuning, or evaluation of modelsSolid Python + PyTorch (or similar)Track record of turning research into real impactPh.D. required in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics background or similarBonusSynthetic data, retrieval systems, or long-context modelsExperience with scalable ML systems