# Senior ML Research Scientist at Rad AI

- Company: Rad AI
- What the company does: Modern radiology AI for reporting, impressions and follow-up. Reduce cognitive burden, improve report quality and help radiologists work faster. Backed by Khosla.
- Company website: https://www.radai.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco - Onsite
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $170K to $220K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-27
- Apply by: 2026-10-11
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/radai/f7510994-9d2f-41ab-bd9f-43e30c37e409
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/rad-ai-senior-ml-research-scientist/

## About the role

Own a multimodal ML work-stream from problem definition through experimentation, evaluation, deployment, and iteration. Translate clinical and product needs into clear ML objectives, data strategies, model approaches, and success criteria.

## What they're looking for

- Strong applied experience in computer vision, NLP, or deep learning, with a track record of independently designing experiments, analyzing results, and turning findings into working systems
- Experience owning substantial ML projects across the full lifecycle, from data and modeling through production delivery
- Deep hands-on ability in Python and PyTorch, with strong intuition for model architecture, data quality, experimentation, and evaluation
- Experience with modern vision or multimodal techniques such as vision transformers, contrastive learning, masked image modeling, or weak supervision, etc
- The judgment to connect model performance to real user and clinical outcomes, including knowing when a benchmark improvement is not enough
- Strong collaboration skills across research, engineering, product, data, and clinical teams

Tags: ML & Data