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AI Research Scientist

Collate · San Francisco · On-site

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About Collate

AI Solutions for Life Sciences. Backed by CRV and Redpoint.

About the role

We’re an elite team, with $125M in funding from top investors (Redpoint, First Round Capital, CRV, Conviction, Y Combinator) and leaders in healthcare and AI. This is a rare chance to join an early-stage company with world-changing potential, experienced founders, and resources to execute at scale.

What they're looking for

  • Strong background in machine learning, NLP, or related fields, with publications or equivalent experience
  • Ability to balance theoretical complexity and simplicity of maintaining and improving real world AI applications in life science
  • Experience troubleshooting NLP performance gaps and improving applications using online and offline evaluation
  • Experience in translation is an added bonus
  • Hands-on experience building and experimenting with deep learning models (e.g., PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow)
  • Ability to bridge theory and practice — from new research ideas to real-world deployments
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About Collate

Collate is an AI document generation platform for life sciences. We automate paperwork with AI, helping our customers get life-saving innovations to patients years faster. Collate is an end-to-end solution, powering every step of drug, diagnostic, and medical device development—from concept to market.

Our CEO Surbhi Sarna is a former General Partner at Y Combinator. Surbhi founded nVision Medical, which developed a new method to detect ovarian cancer and was acquired by Boston Scientific. Our CTO Nate Smith is a former Visiting Partner at Y Combinator and founder of Lever. Our AI researchers, engineers, and designers have worked at Google, Nvidia, Meta, Netflix, Amazon, AirBnB, Hippocratic AI, and Grail, and 40% of our team are former founders.

We’re an elite team, with $125M in funding from top investors (Redpoint, First Round Capital, CRV, Conviction, Y Combinator) and leaders in healthcare and AI. This is a rare chance to join an early-stage company with world-changing potential, experienced founders, and resources to execute at scale.

About the Role

We’re looking for an AI Research Scientist to push the boundaries of how advanced AI can be applied in healthcare....

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