Member of Technical Staff - Research Scientist

Role Summary

Kinetic Systems is an applied research lab building data infrastructure for the autonomous hospital.

We spun out of the Stanford PhD program in 2025 and are backed by General Catalyst. Our mission is to advance the capabilities of frontier models for solving clinically and economically meaningful healthcare tasks.

As a Member of Technical Staff (Research Engineer), you’ll help drive our research agenda towards advancing AI model capabilities for real-world healthcare tasks. You'll be joining an energetic, early-stage startup environment and have ownership across the full stack of what we do: product, research, training, evals, and infrastructure.

Note: This is a full-time role, required to be in-person in SF.

Responsibilities

• Develop novel evals, RL environments, and benchmarks to reflect real-world healthcare workflows
• Develop, train, and evaluate computer-use agents for complex healthcare interfaces
• Write and publish papers in academic conferences

Requirements

• Published at 1+ first-author papers in a top ML conference (NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, etc.)
• Have experience with PyTorch, HuggingFace, or similar libraries
• Familiar with best practices around RLEs, benchmarks, evals, and post-training
• Interested in healthcare as an application (prior background not necessary)

About the Company

If you join our team, you will be joining a team with...

• Founding-level impact and ownership
• An opportunity to advance AI research in one of its most meaningful application areas
• Competitive compensation and meaningful equity
• Unlimited PTO
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k)
• Free lunch + dinner