Role overview
SmarterDx, a Smarter Technologies company, builds clinical AI that is transforming how hospitals translate care into payment. Founded by physicians in 2020, our platform connects clinical context with revenue intelligence, helping health systems recover millions in missed revenue, improve quality scores, and appeal every denial. Become a Smartian and help optimize the way the healthcare system works for everyone. Learn more at smarterdx.com/careers.
As a Staff Machine Learning Research Scientist at SmarterDx, you will set technical direction for cutting-edge ML research and translate it into real-world clinical impact. You’ll work at the intersection of research, engineering, and healthcare, partnering with engineers and clinicians to build systems that deeply understand patient records and improve hospital outcomes. This is a senior, high-impact role where you’ll not only execute on ambitious ideas but also shape the team’s research agenda and standards.
You will be expected to operate with a high degree of autonomy—identifying promising research directions, critically evaluating academic work, and ensuring that what gets built is both scientifically sound and practically useful. Your work will directly influence how we evaluate models, detect hallucinations, and build high-quality datasets, ultimately improving the reliability of AI in healthcare.
*This role is fully remote within the US
What You’ll Do**
- Lead end-to-end ML research, from idea generation to production deployment and monitoring
- Design, implement, and evaluate novel methods for LLM alignment on proprietary clinical data
- Develop and rigorously evaluate approaches for hallucination detection, attribution, and model reliability
- Build and curate high-quality datasets, with a strong emphasis on evaluation design and benchmark integrity
- Critically assess academic literature to identify strong vs weak methods, and translate the best ideas into practice
- Establish best practices for experimental design, including statistically sound evaluation and reproducibility
- Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering to productionize models (MLOps, infra, deployment)
- Develop methods for long-context and multimodal modeling (structured + unstructured clinical data)
- Mentor other researchers and help raise the bar for research quality across the team
- Contribute to external presence through papers, talks, and recruiting
What we're looking for
- Experience with inference optimization techniques (e.g., vLLM, KV caching, speculative decoding)
- Familiarity with MLSys concepts (parallelism strategies, distributed training infrastructure)
- Experience working with clinical or healthcare data
- Background in retrieval systems, graph-based learning, or multimodal modeling
- Medical, Dental & Vision – Comprehensive plans with leading insurance providers, covering 75% of your premiums, depending on the plan.
- Paid Parental Leave – Generous paid leave to support families through birth or adoption: Up to 12 weeks for parents.
- Remote-First Team – Work from anywhere in the U.S.
- Unlimited PTO & 10 Holidays – So you can relax and recharge.
- 401(k) with Traditional & Roth Options – Tax-advantaged retirement savings through Fidelity with a 4% match.
- Minimal Bureaucracy – A fast-moving, high-impact environment where you can focus on what matters.
- Incredible Teammates! – Work alongside smart, supportive, and mission-driven colleagues.