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AI Research Scientist Intern

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About Us

GenMD is unlocking healthcare data at scale. Today, roughly 97% of healthcare data goes unused because of patient privacy concerns. We’ve found a way to unlock that data—safely and ethically—for AI labs, pharma companies, and researchers. This isn’t a chatbot, or an AI agent replacing clinicians or automating paperwork. It’s core infrastructure that enables better drugs, faster clinical trials, and more powerful medical research—the kind of foundation that makes real breakthroughs, including curing diseases, possible.

The company was built out of years inside Stanford Medicine, working closely with world-class researchers and clinicians. We have access to tens of millions of patients, longitudinal health records, and clinical notes. GenMD is just coming out of stealth, already revenue-generating, well-funded, and backed by premier investors with years of runway. We’re intentionally small, move fast, and are focused on building something fundamental.

Your Mission

  • Improve and extend our deep learning and LLM-based models through hands-on research and implementation.

  • Design, train, fine-tune, and evaluate models with a focus on real-world performance.

  • Translate research ideas into working code and reproducible experiments.

  • Collaborate closely with engineers to move models from research to usable systems.

  • Contribute directly to the technical core of the product.

Requirements

  • Currently enrolled in an MS/PhD program in Computer Science, AI, Machine Learning, or a closely related field.

  • Strong foundation in machine learning, deep learning, and NLP, demonstrated through research or projects.

  • Hands-on experience training and fine-tuning LLMs (modeling, optimization, evaluation).

  • Strong coding skills in Python and experience with modern ML libraries (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face).

  • Comfortable working independently in a fast-moving, startup research environment.

Culture

  • High ownership, high intensity, zero passengers.

  • We don’t hire for culture fit—we hire people who create culture.

Benefits

  • Competitive comp.

  • Daily breakfast, coffee, and fresh snacks. On-site Fitness Center.

  • Team offsites, conferences, late nights building something real.

What this application asks

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Name, Email, Resume, City where you currently live

  • Social Media profile (LinkedIn, X, etc.)
  • Unless marked remote, this role is on-site in Palo Alto (4+ days/week). Are you able to meet this requirement? yes / no
  • When can you start?
  • Tell us about things you’ve built (software, research, companies, tools, workflows). What did you personally do? Include links if possible. written answer
  • In 1–2 sentences, what is the most impressive thing you’ve built or achieved outside of school or work requirements? written answer
  • Tell us about a time you most successfully hacked a non-computer system to your advantage (organizational, bureaucratic, social, market, etc.). written answer
  • Tell us about something you built or attempted that failed. What exactly went wrong, and what would you do differently today? written answer
  • What is a commonly accepted belief in your field that you think is wrong or overstated? Why? written answer
  • Why are you interested in working on healthcare data, privacy, or infrastructure problems like GenMD’s? written answer
  • Startups are often chaotic, under-resourced, and ambiguous. What excites you about that, and what worries you? written answer

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