Forus
Research Engineer
New York office · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 90 days ago
AlgorithmsMachine LearningDeep LearningTensorFlowPyTorchNLPLLMsA/B TestingSupply ChainClinical TrialsResearchCommunication
About the role
- This is a demanding role, with a high level of autonomy and responsibility.
- You will be expected to "act like an owner" and commit yourself to Forus' success.
- Stay on top of emerging AI methods and guide decisions around which models and techniques to adopt--including evaluating when to use open-source models, proprietary models, and custom fine-tuning approaches
Responsibilities
- We already support patients across more than 80% of ZIP codes and partner with 5 of the 10 largest biopharma companies in the world.
- We raised $160M+ from leading investors to build an exceptional team and unlock the full scale of the opportunity.
- You will have end-to-end responsibility for projects, including definition, design, development, launch, and success--this includes ensuring your output has the expected impact on user growth, operational efficiency, or revenue generation.
- Leveraging empirical data to build and continuously update our understanding of opaque external systems (e.g., insurance company policies)
- Track record of moving quickly, finding shortcuts, and going to unreasonable lengths to deliver on goals
Skills
- Strong programming skills and general Computer Science knowledge
Compensation
- We provide competitive compensation with meaningful equity (for full-time employees).
Benefits
- Experience working on complex ML problems (e.g., data-efficient learning, reasoning agents, or multi-step workflows) and deploying those solutions in production environments
- Fully covered medical, vision, and dental insurance.
- Memberships for One Medical, Talkspace, Teladoc, and Kindbody.
- Unlimited paid time off (PTO) and 16 weeks of parental leave.
- 401K plan setup, FSA option, commuter benefits, and DashPass.
Company info
- Forus is building an AI-powered network that connects doctors, pharmacies, payers, and biopharma to accelerate new science to patients.
- Our platform automates the complexity between a doctor prescribing a medicine and a patient starting treatment, including insurance coverage, financial assistance, and supply chain navigation. We provide this support free to doctors and patients, helping them get life-changing medicine faster, cheaper, and easier. The resulting network enables biopharma companies to design better research, launch new drugs more effectively, and invest in harder-to-treat conditions.
- Forus has exceptional product-market fit and is growing rapidly through organic adoption:
- Accelerating scale: We already support patients across more than 80% of ZIP codes and partner with 5 of the 10 largest biopharma companies in the world.
- Our platform automates the complexity between a doctor prescribing a medicine and a patient starting treatment, including insurance coverage, financial assistance, and supply chain navigation.
- We provide this support free to doctors and patients, helping them get life-changing medicine faster, cheaper, and easier.
- The resulting network enables biopharma companies to design better research, launch new drugs more effectively, and invest in harder-to-treat conditions.
- AI-native, durable model: Our business becomes stronger as AI improves, as every new doctor, patient, and partner makes the network more valuable.
- Backing to build for the long term: We raised $160M+ from leading investors to build an exceptional team and unlock the full scale of the opportunity.
- Our number one priority is scaling to market demand.
- We are looking for individuals who are high horsepower, high throughput, and hyper resourceful to help us increase capacity and grow.
- We move fast and need to move faster.
- If we succeed, science will be the only limit to medicine.
- All full-time roles are in person in New York.
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