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Founded by Sriram “Sri” Somasundaram and Rishabh Jain, Latent has raised $80 million from Transformation Capital, Spark Capital, Conviction, General Catalyst, Y Combinator, and others.\nThe Role\nAs a Machine Learning Engineer, Research, you will own the design and development of novel modeling approaches that advance state-of-the-art clinical intelligence.\nYou will drive research from ambiguous problem definition through to validated results and downstream impact, shaping the technical direction of how models learn from longitudinal patient data.\nWe are primarily hiring for senior and staff-level engineers who are comfortable owning critical research problems end-to-end.\nThis role involves working on problems that directly impact real patient outcomes.\nWhat You’ll Do\nOwn research initiatives end-to-end, including problem formulation, experimental design, modeling, and evaluation\n\nDevelop novel architectures, training methods, and objectives leveraging longitudinal patient data\n\nWork on verifiable reinforcement learning, mid-training, and post-training of foundation models\n\nDesign rigorous evaluation methodologies to assess model reasoning, correctness, and clinical relevance\n\nMake and own tradeoffs between model capability, interpretability, and verifiability in high-stakes settings\n\nCollaborate with clinicians and engineers to define meaningful problem formulations grounded in real-world workflows\n\nPartner with ML engineers to ensure research translates into deployable systems\n\nWhat We’re Looking For\nStrong foundation in machine learning, deep learning, or a related technical field\n\nTrack record of driving ML research or novel modeling work from idea to validated results\n\nExperience working on ambiguous research problems with limited prior art\n\nHands-on experience with PyTorch or similar frameworks\n\nAbility to operate independently in high-ambiguity environments with minimal guidance\n\nStrong technical judgment - 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