# ML Research Engineer at Prescience, Inc.

- Company: Prescience, Inc. (YC S26)
- What the company does: Superintelligent health insurance that keeps employees healthy. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.getprescience.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $250K to $350K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-30
- Apply by: 2026-10-14
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/prescience-inc/jobs/YcWt3KT-ml-research-engineer
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/prescience-inc-ml-research-engineer/

## About the role

Our number one priority is scaling to market demand. We are looking for individuals who are high horsepower, high throughput, and extreme resourcefulness to help us increase capacity and grow. We move fast and need to move faster. The models will do most of the work; your job is to build everything that lets them: the data, harnesses and tools, and infra. This is a founding role with an unprecedented level of ownership and agency. You will pick problems, own them end to end, and ship to production.

## What they're looking for

- Build data pipelines and find new ways to tokenize and compress medical data,
- Design and execute pretraining runs on longitudinal patient data (Time Machine),
- Train our reinforcement learning system, Crystal,
- Own evals end to end,
- Ship models into prod with real patients. Your research will directly impact P&L,
- Set the research direction. You have an unlimited token budget, and a lot of compute available

Tags: Engineering