Senior ML Researcher | Berlin | Permanent | Hybrid | €110k
AI Futures has been engaged by exciting, venture-backed healthcare AI startup based in Berlin that is developing AI technologies for the next generation of cardiovascular care.
The company has already raised €3M in equity and grant financing, backed by specialist healthcare investors, this is an exciting point in the company's journey: the technology has moved beyond pure R&D, the company has an approved medical-device product, and significant resources are being invested into scaling its research and clinical programmes.
The role
We are looking for a Senior Machine Learning Researcher to join the core AI team and help develop the next generation of machine learning systems for healthcare.
Your work will sit at the intersection of:
Machine Learning × Audio × Time-Series × Multimodal AI × Healthcare
The company is developing ML systems capable of detecting subtle changes in a patient's voice and combining these signals with longitudinal physiological and clinical data.
This creates a particularly interesting research environment for someone interested in problems such as:
- Audio and speech representation learning
- Longitudinal time-series modelling
- Multimodal learning
- Self-supervised learning
- Foundation models for healthcare
- Patient-level temporal modelling
- Physiological signal processing
- Robustness and generalisation across patients and devices
- Uncertainty and calibration in clinical ML
As a Senior ML Researcher, you will have significant ownership over research direction and experimentation.
You will:
- Develop novel models for audio and healthcare time-series
- Investigate new architectures for sequential and multimodal data
- Develop self-supervised and representation-learning approaches
- Design experiments to uncover clinically meaningful signals
- Work with large-scale longitudinal datasets
- Build rigorous patient-level evaluation frameworks
- Investigate model generalisation, uncertainty and robustness
- Collaborate directly with clinicians and medical researchers
- Translate promising research into production-grade healthcare AI
- Help shape the company's longer-term ML research roadmap
- Potentially publish research and represent the company within the ML community
This is a role for someone who wants genuine research ownership rather than simply implementing models from a specification.
What we're looking for
- PhD or equivalent research experience in ML, Computer Science, Statistics, Electrical Engineering or a related field
- Strong experience with deep learning and sequential modelling
- Experience working with time-series, audio, speech or multimodal data
- Excellent Python and PyTorch/JAX skills
- A strong research track record
- Experience independently developing and validating new ML approaches
- Strong understanding of experimental design and statistical evaluation
Particularly valuable experience:
- Speech/audio ML
- Self-supervised learning
- Transformers or state-space models
- Multimodal foundation models
- Biomedical signals
- ECG/PPG/EEG/respiration/wearable data
- Clinical ML
- Probabilistic modelling
- Causal inference
- Large-scale model training
- Healthcare or medical-device environments
Package & Details
€110k Base Salary + Benefits.
Permanent | Hybrid - Berlin.
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