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Pharma companies use our analyses to see how cancer treatments perform in real patients. We run our own LLMs on air-gapped infrastructure, so patient data never leaves our environment.\n\nThe Role\n\nWe are an AI-first company: LLMs read clinical records, extract the facts, and drive the analyses our data science team delivers to pharma clients. Our next step is to take these models further, with higher accuracy, honest confidence scores, and a pipeline that learns from its own mistakes. We need someone to lead that step.\n\nThis is a hands-on role with lead responsibility. You set the technical direction for how the team works with models, build the first versions yourself, and bring the team along. We care about what you have shipped with LLMs in the last year, not how many years you have on paper.\n\nWhat you will do:\n\nEvolve our clinical extraction pipeline so the model returns one normalized value per field, a calibrated confidence score, and the source text it came from.\n\nBuild the fine-tune feedback loop: corrected cases become training data, models retrain on a cadence, and a regression gate against a frozen gold set protects quality before any release.\n\nStand up our MLOps stack from self-hosted open-source tools: annotation, data versioning, experiment tracking, evaluation, drift monitoring.\n\nPush automation deeper into the delivery workflow with LLM pipelines and agents, so the team spends its time on clinical judgment, not repetitive steps.\n\nSet the evaluation discipline: gold test sets, calibration measurement, honest metrics.\n\nUpskill the team. Pair with people, review their work, and run internal workshops.\n\nWhat we look for:\n\nAI-first thinking. Your default question is “can a model do this?” and you reach for the newest tools on the market before writing another script by hand.\n\nYou use LLMs daily in your own work: coding agents, eval suites, prompt pipelines.\n\nYou ship. A working prototype this week beats a perfect design next quarter.\n\nYou argue with evidence and stand your ground, including with senior people. We want someone who pushes.\n\nYou measure. 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