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. Find out exactly what skills, experience, and qualifications you will need to succeed in this role before applying below. Target Compensation is between $160k-220k base (depending on experience), plus equity. Location is Bay Area, SF (hybrid ) What you’ll do Improve LLM reasoning using post-training (SFT, RL) Build agentic systems (multi-step, real-world tasks) Design evaluation frameworks to measure model quality Optimize models for performance + cost efficiency What we’re looking for Strong ML/NLP background with LLMs or transformers (1.5 years+ industry exp.) Experience with RL, fine-tuning, or evaluation of models Solid Python + PyTorch xywuqvp (or similar) Track record of turning research into real impact Ph.D. required in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics background or similar Bonus Synthetic data, retrieval systems, or long-context models Experience with scalable ML systems