Founding Engineer, Applied Research
BackboneJob Description
📋 Description Build evals for clinical reasoning, chart understanding, claims review, and policy interpretation Improve reading and reasoning over clinical/financial data; prompting, fine-tuning, retrieval Develop agentic browser-use and computer-use capabilities for payer portals Translate provider/payer feedback into research problems; partner with backend to productionize 🎯 Requirements New grad to ~5-6 years in ML research, language models, NLP, evals, RL, agentic systems, or model improvement Evidence of technical depth via projects, papers, internships, or open-source work; systems experience a plus Passion for applied research with real-world impact on workflows and patients Healthcare experience helpful but not required; curiosity and rigor matter 🎁 Benefits Competitive compensation Meaningful ownership Opportunity to build foundational tech in healthcare payments