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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 developmentfrom concept to market.

About the Role

Were looking for an AI Research Scientist to push the boundaries of how advanced AI can be applied in healthcare. Youll explore new modeling approaches, design novel architectures, and prototype capabilities that dont exist yet always with an eye toward how they can be translated into safe, reliable, and impactful products. This is not a pure research role; at Collate, research is directly tied to deployment. Youll work side by side with engineers, product, and Life science experts to ensure breakthroughs in the lab become real solutions in the world.

What Youll Do

• Explore new LLM prompt optimization, robustness of LLM applications and modeling approaches in machine learning, NLP, and reasoning
• Prototype and validate AI capabilities that expand Collates product roadmap
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and design to bring research into production
• Develop evaluation frameworks to measure safety, reliability, and fairness
• Share findings with the broader AI community through publications and open collaboration
• Help shape the long-term research agenda at Collate

What Were 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
• Curiosity-driven, with a track record of pushing beyond the obvious to uncover new possibilities
• Motivation to apply AI research in life sciences, where rigor, safety, and impact matter deeply
• Excitement to work in an early-stage environment where you help define not just the research, but the product and company direction

Why Join Collate

• Impact: Build systems and experiences that touch real patients and providers, improving healthcare outcomes
• Ownership: Shape both our product experience and our engineering culture from the start
• Learning: Collaborate with a uniquely interdisciplinary teamAI researchers, healthcare leaders, and experienced startup builders
• Upside: Join a company early enough to have meaningful equity and career-defining impact

The base salary range for this role is $150,000$350,000 USD annually, depending on experience and level (Tier 1, San Francisco).