Knowtex ML Engineer / Researcher at Knowtex focuses on developing and optimizing large language models for clinical documentation and reasoning. The role involves research, model training, evaluation, and production deployment.
Responsibilities
This is a research-heavy role with a direct path to production. You will design experiments, build datasets and evaluation systems, and fine-tune and post-train models. You will also work closely with engineering and clinical teams to deploy successful approaches at scale. The role plays a central part in defining Knowtex's long-term LLM strategy.
Clinical Documentation & Reasoning
Develop and optimize models that generate high-quality clinical documentation, including SOAP notes and specialty-specific note formats
Build models for downstream clinical tasks such as medication extraction, orders, ICD-10 coding, E&M coding, patient visit summaries, and other structured clinical artifacts
Apply structured generation, tool use, and agentic approaches to produce reliable, controllable clinical outputs
Model Strategy & Training
Evaluate open-weight and proprietary models, and determine where fine-tuning, distillation, structured generation, or task-specific models can beat general-purpose API-based approaches
Fine-tune and post-train open-weight LLMs on Knowtex's proprietary clinical datasets, using SFT, distillation, preference optimization, and reinforcement learning
Research ways to reduce inference cost and latency while maintaining or improving clinical quality
Serve and optimize open-weight models in production at scale
Build rigorous evaluation frameworks for clinical accuracy, hallucinations, completeness, formatting, and clinician preferences
Build datasets, benchmarks, and evaluation infrastructure that make model improvements measurable and reproducible
Qualification
Strong Python and PyTorch skillsBachelor'sExperience with structured generation
Required
4+ years of experience in machine learning research or ML engineering, with deep expertise in large language models