League Inc.
Applied AI Scientist
Canada - Remote · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$152k-$160kDetected 36 days ago
AWSGCPCloud PlatformsPlatform EngineeringMachine LearningData EngineeringNLPLLMsAI OrchestrationA/B TestingComplianceHIPAAHL7/FHIRResearchLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationProblem Solving
About the role
- League is seeking an Applied AI Scientist to join our AI Models team, focused on advancing innovation in small language models (SLMs) and applied AI systems.
- You will work closely with AI leadership to explore, prototype, and operationalize new approaches to domain-specific language models that power League's healthcare platform.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement experiments across fine-tuning, distillation, and optimization of small language models (1-10B parameters)
- Build applied systems that connect models, data pipelines, and evaluation frameworks
- Collaborate with engineering teams to transition promising experiments into production environments
- Contribute to training data design, including curation, labeling strategies, and synthetic data generation
- Work with data partners to explore AI-driven insights and improvements to model performance
- Contribute to building lightweight evaluation frameworks and benchmarking approaches
- Document and share workflows that improve how the team builds and evaluates models
- Partner with Product, Platform Engineering, and AI Orchestration teams to integrate models into real-world use cases
- This role sits at the intersection of research and engineering, with a strong emphasis on experimentation, model development, and applied system design.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience using AI tools in a practical, responsible way
- Ability to balance efficiency with quality and sound judgment
Skills
- Translate emerging research into practical implementations
- Rapidly experiment with model architectures and optimization techniques
- Leverage modern AI tools and frameworks to accelerate development
- Apply judgment and accountability when using AI by reviewing outputs for accuracy, bias, and quality before use
- Continuously learn and adapt as new AI tools and capabilities emerge, incorporating them into your ways of working
- Identify opportunities to improve how work gets done from personal productivity to team-level workflows by leveraging AI effectively
- Operate with strong data responsibility and security awareness, especially when working with sensitive or regulated information
- Actively leverage AI tools (e.g., Copilot, LLM-assisted coding, research copilots) to improve productivity and experimentation speed
Compensation
- CANADA APPLICANTS ONLY: The Canada-specific compensation range below for this full-time position is exclusive of bonus, equity and benefits.
Benefits
- League is one of the fastest-growing technology companies in Canada and the leading healthcare experience platform.
- Getting healthcare is often the easy part - finishing it is where things fall apart: people book the appointment and skip the follow-up, fill the prescription and stop taking it, get the referral and never make the call.
- That gap costs health plans and health systems money, and it costs people their health.
- Health plans and health systems trust us to do this at scale.
- Highmark Health, Google Cloud, League: new digital front door to seamless care
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Visa & Work Authorization
- al employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status
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