Research Scientist (x/f/m)

Set a new pulse for healthcare!

We are looking for a Research Scientist to join the Doctolab team (Doctolib Clinical AI Research Lab).

Your mission is to build accurate, well-calibrated, and clinically reliable models of patient health, learned from health data at scale. The work is both fundamental and applied: you publish, and your models reach products used by doctors and patients. Doctolib is used by around 450,000 health professionals and 90 million people across Europe, and research that succeeds in the lab can be deployed at that scale.

Working at Doctolib means contributing to one of Europe's leading health-tech companies, and seeing your work improve care for patients and practitioners.

How we work

Doctolab is a research lab in its founding phase, so researchers have real influence over its direction and its priorities. We work closely with the data science and product teams, and we stay close to the data.

We expect researchers to explain why a question matters, not only why it is open. Projects are chosen on both scientific ambition and what they change for patients and practitioners. The work suits researchers who want to see their results used.

The questions we raise are open problems in machine learning: world models that predict the consequences of an action, calibration and uncertainty, causal inference from observational data, multimodal sequence modelling, orchestration between model capabilities. Results on these questions hold well beyond healthcare. We are in a strong position to work on them: we have the data to learn a world model from, a clinical use case that defines success, and the engineering path to put it in front of practitioners and patients and learn from what comes back.

Experience with healthcare or medical data is a plus but not required. Both early-career and experienced researchers are welcome.

You'll be a great fit if you:

• Have a PhD in machine learning, statistics, computer science, or a related field, or a Master's degree with significant research experience
• Have depth in one or more of: representation learning and self-supervised learning; large language models and multimodal modelling; causal inference and causal discovery from observational data; temporal and dynamic modelling; calibration and uncertainty quantification; agentic systems and orchestration; evaluation and benchmarking; privacy auditing of machine learning models
• Have first-author publications at leading venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, or comparable medical informatics venues
• Have driven your own research, from choosing the question to publishing the result
• Are proficient in Python and a deep learning framework such as PyTorch, and have trained models yourself
• Are comfortable working with large and imperfect real-world data
• Can explain why a research question matters, scientifically and for patients or practitioners
• Are fluent in English, the working language of the lab

It would be fantastic if you:

• Have experience with healthcare or medical data, clinical text, or electronic health records
• Have taken research models into production, or worked alongside product teams
• Have released open-source code, benchmarks, or datasets

Life at Doctolib Tech

• Our solutions are built on a single fully cloud-native platform that supports web and mobile app interfaces, multiple languages, and is adapted to country and healthcare specialty requirements.
• Our stack is composed of Rails, TypeScript, Java, Python, Kotlin, Swift, and React Native.
• We leverage AI ethically across our products to empower patients and health professionals. Discover our AI vision here.

Want to learn more about our tech culture and environment? Visit the Doctolib Tech site.

Our interview process

• Recruiter Interview
• One or more Research Background Interviews
• Technical / Problem-Solving Interview
• Behavioral Interview
• At least one reference check

We want your experience to be clear, respectful, and transparent. Learn more about our hiring process on our candidate experience page.

Job details

• Permanent position
• Full-time
• Paris, France
• Hybrid work setup (up to 2 remote days per week)
• Start date: as soon as possible

We welcome everyone

At Doctolib, we are committed to improving access to healthcare for everyone. This translates into our recruitment process. We evaluate candidates based solely on qualifications and motivation, without any form of discrimination.

The more diverse ideas are heard, the more our product will truly improve healthcare for all. You are welcome to apply to Doctolib, regardless of your gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, or disability.

To ensure equal opportunities, we invite you to exclude personal information (e.g., pictures, age) from your applications. If you require any accommodation, please let us know for support during the hiring process.

Join us in building the healthcare we all dream of!

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