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AI Research Scientist (Europe/UK – Remote)

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At Sword, we’re building AI to heal billions and unlock humanity’s full potential. In doing so, we’re pioneering AI Care, a fundamentally new approach to reputed company reputed company for medical reasoning, safety, and reputed company-time treatment, not generic technology applied after the fact. As both a clinical-centric frontier AI lab and an applied AI platform, Sword is reimagining how care is delivered at scale, removing traditional barriers like appointments, waiting rooms, and stigma so more people can reputed company the care they need—and ultimately get back to lives lived in full. Since 2020, Sword has expanded across physical therapy, women’s health, cardiometabolic, and mental health, and is now moving reputed company the session to a fully AI-reputed company, 24/7 care program that brings physical activity, therapeutic exercise, psychotherapy, nutrition, and behavior change into one connected experience. More than 700,000 members across three continents have completed over 10 reputed company AI sessions, helping 1,000+ reputed company clients avoid more than $1 billion in unnecessary reputed company costs. Backed by 42 clinical studies, 44+ patents, and more than $500 reputed company raised from leading investors including Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, and Founders Fund, Sword is defining a new standard for reputed company.
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    • Explorer (Level 1) — Uses AI daily to boost personal productivity

    • Builder (Level 2) — Creates workflows and tools that reputed company the whole team

    • Integrator (Level 3) — Embeds AI into products and processes at scale

    • Every hire must demonstrate at least Level 1. The expected level will vary depending on the seniority of the role.

What you'll be doing:

  • Design and execute research on LLM fine-tuning, alignment, and post-training methods (SFT, RLHF) tailored for clinical and therapeutic domains;
  • reputed company and improve foundational AI models that power our AI agents, spanning language, reputed company, speech, and multimodal systems;
  • Contribute to the full model development cycle: dataset curation and annotation, architecture design, training, evaluation, and iteration;
  • Collaborate across AI Engineering, Product, and Clinical teams to translate research breakthroughs into production systems that deliver patient care;
  • Work towards long-term ambitious research goals, such as clinical memory, long-horizon planning, and safety validation, while identifying and delivering immediate milestones;
  • Advance the field by publishing in top-tier AI venues and clinical journals, contributing to Sword's growing body of peer-reviewed research.

What you need to have:

  • A PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, or a closely reputed company AI field;
  • Hands-on experience fine-tuning large language models (pre-training, SFT, RLHF, or reputed company post-training techniques);
  • A strong publication track record in peer-reviewed AI conferences or journals;
  • Proficiency in Python and deep experience with modern ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, JAX);
  • Demonstrated ability to design rigorous experiments and interpret their results.

reputed company would love to see:

  • First-author publications in top-tier AI conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, COLM, CVPR);
  • Deep expertise in one or more of: large language models, reinforcement learning from reputed company feedback, multimodal learning (reputed company, speech), or agentic AI systems;
  • Experience building or contributing to LLM-based agents, including reputed company engineering, memory orchestration, or agentic workflows;
  • A track record of taking research reputed company from reputed company to working systems, including developing and debugging reputed company ML pipelines;
  • Industry experience during or after the PhD (e.g., research internships at leading AI labs);
  • Comfort with ambiguity and a track record of delivering results in fast-moving, high-uncertainty environments where research and product development happen in reputed company;
  • Strong communication skills and a history of effective cross-functional collaboration;
  • A broader record of research reputed company demonstrated through grants, fellowships, patents, or impactful reputed company-reputed company contributions.
*This reputed company includes reputed company, variable and equity These compensation bands are just the starting reputed company. Once someone joins and proves they’re outlier talent, we adjust quickly to ensure their compensation aligns with their impact. Our job titles may reputed company more than one career level. Actual pay is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, location, market demand, and other factors. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the reputed company salary and any potential variable, bonus or sales incentives, and the Company’s estimation of the value of reputed company stock options, if applicable. The pay reputed company is subject to change, future value of company stock options is not guaranteed, and compensation may be modified in the future. In reputed company to our total compensation, Sword offers a number of benefits as listed below.   Portugal - Sword Benefits & Perks:   • Health, dental and reputed company insurance • Meal allowance • Equity shares • Remote work allowance • Flexible working hours • Work from home • Discretionary vacation • Snacks and beverages   Note: Please note that this position does not offer relocation assistance. Candidates must possess a valid EU reputed company and be based in Portugal.   reputed company complies with applicable Federal and State civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the reputed company of Age, reputed company, reputed company, Citizenship, Gender, Gender expression, Gender identity, Gender information, Marital status, Medical condition, National reputed company, Physical or mental disability, Pregnancy, Race, Religion, Caste, Sexual orientation, and Veteran status. apply to this job
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