Phare is building healthcare’s first Revenue Operating System - a platform that uses AI to make hospital billing and reimbursement effortless, accurate, and fair. We’re part of R1, one of the largest companies managing healthcare claims which serves hundreds of systems around the country. This gives us the best of both worlds: the DNA of an AI startup paired with the infrastructure of a healthcare organization that supports care delivery every day. Together, we’re turning decades of operational expertise into intelligent systems that learn, adapt, and act - helping hospitals get paid correctly so they can focus on care.
The Role
We skew toward the RS/RE blend – applied, hands-on engineers who can genuinely push forward state of the art. You’ll conduct applied research on real healthcare data, focused on explainability, reinforcement learning, and long-context information retrieval. You’ll move quickly from concept to deployment - designing experiments, training models at scale, and collaborating with MLOps and product teams to turn ideas into measurable user impact. You’ll stay close to the literature and close to production, coding your own experiments end to end.
This is an in-person role in NYC, with at least three days per week in the SoHo office.
About you
You have a PhD in computer science or informatics plus at least 3 years of industry experience (will consider postdocs also).
You have:
Experience designing novel architectures and pipelines in PyTorch/TensorFlow/JAX - strong preference for applied research which has made its way into production.
Research expertise in one or more of: interpretability, reinforcement learning, retrieval-augmented generation, or long-context information retrieval.
Comfortable running large-scale training and evaluation on distributed infrastructure (e.g., Ray, FSDP, Lightning).
Track record publications at top ML venues (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, EMNLP, MLHC, CHIL).
The healthcare system is always evolving — and it’s up to us to use our shared expertise to find new solutions that can keep up. On our growing team you’ll find the opportunity to constantly learn, collaborate across groups and explore new paths for your career.
Our associates are given the chance to contribute, think boldly and create meaningful work that makes a difference in the communities we serve around the world. We go beyond expectations in everything we do. Not only does that drive customer success and improve patient care, but that same enthusiasm is applied to giving back to the community and taking care of our team — including offering a competitive benefits package.
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