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Member of Technical Staff - Research Scientist

Kineticsystems
CompanyKineticsystems
CategoryScience & Research
LocationSan Francisco
RemoteOn-site (inferred)
EmploymentNot stated
LevelNot stated
SalaryNot stated by the employer
Posted26 Jan 2026
Last verified9 Aug 2026
SourceEmployer ATS (ashby)
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Description
Kinetic Systems is an applied research lab building data infrastructure for the autonomous hospital. We spun out of the Stanford PhD program in 2025 and are backed by General Catalyst. Our mission is to advance the capabilities of frontier models for solving clinically and economically meaningful healthcare tasks. THE ROLE As a Member of Technical Staff (Research Engineer), you’ll help drive our research agenda towards advancing AI model capabilities for real-world healthcare tasks. You'll be joining an energetic, early-stage startup environment and have ownership across the full stack of what we do: product, research, training, evals, and infrastructure. Note: This is a full-time role, required to be in-person in SF. WHAT YOU’LL DO - Develop novel evals, RL environments, and benchmarks to reflect real-world healthcare workflows - Develop, train, and evaluate computer-use agents for complex healthcare interfaces - Write and publish papers in academic conferences WHO YOU ARE - Published at 1+ first-author papers in a top ML conference (NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, etc.) - Have experience with PyTorch, HuggingFace, or similar libraries - Familiar with best practices around RLEs, benchmarks, evals, and post-training - Interested in healthcare as an application (prior background not necessary) WHY US If you join our team, you will be joining a team with... - Founding-level impact and ownership - An opportunity to advance AI research in one of its most meaningful application areas - Competitive compensation and meaningful equity - Unlimited PTO - Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage - 401(k) - Free lunch + dinner