Position Overview
Role
As a VP of Research - Foundation Models (Distinguished Scientist / Research Lead), you will own:
Pre-training strategy and execution for biologics foundation models built from scratch across modalities (architecture, data, representation, scaling, evaluation). Continued pre-training and adaptation of vertical LLMs for regulated industries. The full training stack in practice: data pipelines, distributed training, scaling laws, evaluation harnesses, checkpointing, failure recovery. Research direction, standards and review for a small founding team. Translating frontier research into models that hold up in regulated, real-world use. You’ll be a hands-on Research Lead / Distinguished Scientist role - not a manager of managers - owning architectures, training runs, and technical direction alongside a founding team of elite researchers. Freedom to publish, established compute resources, and direct collaborati...