[Hiring] AI Research Scientist @Pear VC

Role Description

Most research roles at this stage hand you a dataset everyone already has and ask you to be marginally better than the last person who tried. Here you get data nobody else has — real clinical reasoning trajectories from practicing physicians — and the room to figure out what to do with it. This is a founding research hire: you'll define the agenda as much as execute it, with direct founder access, real compute, and nothing between an idea and an experiment.

• Work with real, proprietary clinical data from hospital and clinic partners to surface insights that shape model and product direction
• Build clinical reasoning models that improve physician and clinic workflows
• Design and publish benchmarks that expose where current LLMs fall short on real clinical reasoning
• Evaluate computer-use models on real-world tasks
• Own the training and evaluation pipeline end to end
• Take open-ended problems from question to working model, with minimal predefined structure
• Write up findings as technical reports and papers

Qualifications

• Has real research experience — can define a problem, not just execute a known one
• Has trained models before (not just fine-tuned APIs) and is fluent in Python
• Master's or higher in ML or a related field
• Energized by open-ended problems and ambiguity
• Wants to publish, not just ship
• Takes ownership without needing to be guided
• Genuinely wants a startup over big tech — speed and ambiguity as defaults, not exceptions

Requirements

• Prior founder or founding-engineer experience (nice to have)
• Strong product taste (nice to have)
• Worked on healthcare datasets before (nice to have)
• Built LLM-powered products before (nice to have)
• Ambitions to start your own company someday — we'll support that path (nice to have)

Benefits

• Direct, daily work with the founders, plus exposure to board and investor conversations
• Real ownership of technical direction, with scope that grows as the company does
• Full compute and data to do the work properly
• Competitive salary and meaningful equity
• Visa sponsorship available