Hiring: Senior Applied Researcher AI/ML (US) Company: PointClickCare Location: United States Job Posted Time: 2026-09-17 09:21:30 Employment Type: Remote Target Skills & Keywords : AI, AWS, Azure, CI/CD, Data Lake, Databricks, Fine-tuning, GCP, Hugging Face, Java, LLM, LangChain, LightGBM, LlamaIndex, Machine Learning, NLP, NumPy, Pandas, PyTorch, Python, R, RAG, Reinforcement Learning, SQL, SaaS, SciPy, Spark, Transformers, UI/UX, scikit-learn About the job Experience: •Proven industry experience through multiple major product releases in a commercial SaaS environment. •Hands-on experience working with healthcare data (e.g. EHR, ADT, clinical notes). •Proficiency in Python. Proficiency in Java or other languages helpful. •Proficiency with SQL and data engineering for AI/ML applications. •Solid understanding of transformer models and LLM-based approaches, including hands-on experience with prompt tuning and PEFT methods (e.g. LoRA, QLoRA) using frameworks such as Hugging Face Transformers. Required Skills: •Reporting to the Vice President, Advanced Technology, you will be a member of the Advanced Technology / Applied AI Research team at PointClickCare. •Interface directly with product leaders, clinical informaticists, data scientists, UI/UX researchers, engineers, and healthcare professionals to design and deliver high value solutions. •Design, build and evaluate solutions that may involve structured or unstructured data for healthcare use cases, delivering capabilities such as predictive models, summarization, recommenders, semantic search, extraction, classification, or other AI/ML applications •Perform research and experimentation to select appropriate approaches, algorithms, and evaluation methods, and execute the R&D needed to deliver production-ready model systems. •Perform data collection, cleaning, analysis, prompt tuning, parameter fine-tuning, model training, development, and evaluation—using existing or developing new tools or workflows as needed. •Contribute to a collaborative team culture, sharing knowledge and helping develop new capabilities across the organization. Qualifications: •Ph.D grad, with 1+ years related industry experience OR Masters grad with 4+ years industry experience--including at least 1 year directly related to healthcare ML/AI Compensation: •$182,700 - $203,000 / year •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!