Whoop
Principal AI/ML Researcher
Boston, MA · Principal · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$270k-$300kDetected 5 days ago
Machine LearningDeep LearningNLPResearchCommunication
About the role
- Represent WHOOP's technical work externally, helping with recruiting, partnerships, and visibility in the broader AI research community.
Responsibilities
- Set the architectural direction for the development of large-scale models spanning wearable sensor data, text, biomarkers, and behavioral signals, and personally own the highest-stakes, hardest-to-reverse design decisions.
- Partner across research, product, and engineering to connect technical breakthroughs to product and business outcomes.
- Raise the technical bar across the team: grow staff and senior engineers, strengthen design-review and evaluation norms, and act as a force multiplier.
- These models integrate data across wearable sensors, language, biomarkers, clinical information, and self-reported inputs to create scalable AI systems that understand human physiology and behavior.
- You will own the technical execution of our foundation modeling workstreams and your technical judgment will shape a core part of WHOOP's AI efforts and the products they power.
Requirements
- A track record of owning technical direction for a significant area and making architectural decisions whose impact outlived any single project.
- Demonstrated ability to take ambiguous, high-risk research directions all the way to production impact and the judgment to discontinue those that will not.
- Excellent communication and the ability to influence both the engineering bench and senior leadership.
- The successful candidate must be prepared to relocate if necessary to work out of the Boston, MA office.
- While most offers will typically fall toward the starting point of the range, total compensation will depend on the candidate's specific qualifications, expertise, and alignment with the role's requirements.
- Advanced degree (Master's or Ph.D.) or equivalent depth, with extensive experience in large-scale machine learning and AI research.
- Deep expertise in modern deep learning (transformers, state space models), multimodal training, self-supervised and representation learning, RL-based post-training (PPO/DPO/GRPO), and large-scale distributed training (data, model, and context parallelism).
- A history of being a technical authority that teams defer to, and evidence of multiplying their output.
- Publications and evidence of community building at top-tier machine learning venues.
- Passion for WHOOP's mission to improve human performance and extend healthspan through science and technology.
- This role is based in the WHOOP office located in Boston, MA. The successful candidate must be prepared to relocate if necessary to work out of the Boston, MA office.
- Interested in the role, but don't meet every qualification? We encourage you to still apply! At WHOOP, we believe there is much more to a candidate than what is written on paper, and we value character as much as experience. As we continue to build a diverse and inclusive environment, we encourage anyone who is interested in this role to apply.
- WHOOP is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-verify to determine employment eligibility. It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
- The WHOOP compensation philosophy is designed to attract, motivate, and retain exceptional talent by offering competitive base salaries, meaningful equity, and consistent pay practices that reflect our mission and core values.
- At WHOOP, we view total compensation as the combination of base salary, equity, and benefits, with equity serving as a key differentiator that aligns our employees with the long-term success of the company and allows every member of our corporate team to own part of WHOOP and share in the company's long-term growth and success.
Compensation
- The WHOOP compensation philosophy is designed to attract, motivate, and retain exceptional talent by offering competitive base salaries, meaningful equity, and consistent pay practices that reflect our mission and core values.
Benefits
- WHOOP is an advanced health and fitness wearable on a mission to unlock human performance and extend healthspan.
- This team builds the foundation models that underpin WHOOP's next generation of intelligent, personalized, and health-enhancing experiences.
- Identify which research bets in self-supervised and representation learning are worth making, and drive the most ambiguous and unproven ones from thesis to validated, production capability.
Company info
- We are seeking a Principal AI Researcher to join our Foundation AI team.
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