# Senior Applied Scientist, Reinforcement Learning at Hippocratic AI

- Company: Hippocratic AI
- What the company does: Hippocratic AI builds the safest generative AI healthcare agent for health systems, payors, and pharma. Over 180 million clinical interactions across 1,000+ use cases with 60+ partners worldwide. Backed by General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins and a16z.
- Company website: https://www.hippocraticai.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Menlo Park, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-10-27
- Apply by: 2026-12-11
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Hippocratic%20AI/7fb0dbeb-52e8-49e0-aca6-013fb8576bb3?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/hippocratic-ai-senior-applied-scientist-reinforcement-learning/

## About the role

LLM post-training is where raw capability becomes reliable, safe behavior — and in healthcare, the stakes are as high as they get. You'll own the Reinforcement Learning (RL) and On-Policy Distillation (OPD) post-training pipeline end to end, to improve our models' clinical reasoning, safety, and alignment. Your models will be deployed to interact with millions of patients across diverse clinical use cases. Design RL and OPD post-training methods (RLHF, RLVR, OPD, etc.) Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- MS or PhD in CS or relevant field
- 3+ years or experience in NLP, LLM training, or RL
- 1+ years experience in RL for LLM post-training
- Experience with large-scale (50B+ parameter and multi-node) LLM training
- Strong Python and PyTorch coding skills
- Experience with RLHF, RLVR, LLM-as-judge or similar methods for LLM post-training

Tags: Research & Development

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