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That gives us proprietary clinical reasoning trajectories from practicing physicians, and a feedback loop between real patient encounters, our models, and the products built on top of them.\nWe're a small, fast-moving founding team with multiple published papers in NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR etc and background from Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, CMU, IIT.\nWe are backed by world-class investors and leaders like Jeff Dean, Neotribe VC, PearVC, Together Fund and Zapier Fund.\nHow we work\nCustomer obsession - we start with the customer and work backwards\n\nIntellectual honesty - ideas matter more than titles; we communicate directly and assume good intent, even in disagreement\n\nBias for action - we build and learn with customers rather than debate in the abstract\n\nExtreme ownership - we own outcomes, not just tasks, and see problems through\n\nWhy this role exists\nMost research roles at this stage hand you a dataset everyone already has and ask you to be marginally better than the last person who tried. 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