# Research Engineer

Research Engineer About Us Lotus Health is a groundbreaking primary care app that integrates your medical records, AI, and real doctors to provide free, personalized healthcare and prescriptions. Our team includes ex-founders and engineers who have built and scaled consumer apps to millions of users, generating over $100M in annual revenue. Lotus is backed by Kleiner Perkins, and clinicians at Harvard and Stanford. Role Overview We are hiring a Founding Research Engineer to design, prototype, and ship the core reasoning and agentic systems that power Lotus. You will turn messy health data into accurate, cited, and actionable guidance for patients and clinicians. The work blends applied research with product engineering: dataset curation, model training and evaluation, retrieval and tool use, safety and alignment, and putting breakthroughs into production. You will work side by side with clinicians and the founding team and your work will reach patients quickly. Responsibilities Research and Modeling Build and iterate on agentic workflows that use retrieval, function calling, and planning to answer health questions with citations and uncertainty awareness Fine tune and distill mode

- **Id**: 787062
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/lotushealth-research-engineer>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2025-11-24T20:56:23Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2025-11-24
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T14:35:51Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 353
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3515
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Telemedicine & Virtual Care, Medical AI

## Company

- **Id**: 720329
- **Name**: Lotus
- **Domain**: lotus.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/lotus-3>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 162000
- **Max usd**: 360000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_country_seniority_unknown
- **Sample n**: 4425

## Technologies

- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Function Calling** — Optional: no
- **Hallucination** — Optional: no
- **JAX** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **LLM Evaluation** — Optional: no
- **LoRA** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **QLoRA** — Optional: no
- **Quantization** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Red Teaming** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Synthetic Data** — Optional: no
- **TensorRT** — Optional: no
- **vLLM** — Optional: no
- **Amazon ECS** — Optional: yes
- **Docker** — Optional: yes
- **FHIR** — Optional: yes
- **Knowledge Distillation** — Optional: yes
- **Langfuse** — Optional: yes
- **Model Distillation** — Optional: yes
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: yes
- **PEFT** — Optional: yes
- **RLAIF** — Optional: yes
- **RLHF** — Optional: yes
- **Sentry** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 353

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-12T02:14:29Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 4
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.127
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 352
- **Expected fill days**: 28
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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