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Epidemiologist
Epidemiologists investigate patterns and causes of disease within populations, designing epidemiological studies and analyzing surveillance data to inform public health policy and interventions. They typically hold graduate degrees in public health and apply biostatistics along with tools like SAS, R, or Python to model disease trends, then communicate findings through scientific writing and reports. Employers include government health agencies, academic institutions, and public health organizations responding to outbreaks or chronic disease trends.
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IQVIA
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Where Epidemiologists commonly go next: Research Manager.
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Menlo Ventures Portfolio
Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $405,000 – $485,000
Lead Anthropic's biological safety research team, managing scientists and engineers who evaluate how AI models handle biological knowledge and build safeguards to prevent misuse while keeping legitimate research unimpeded. This hands-on role combines people leadership with deep technical work in ML safety, biosecurity, and life sciences.
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Group Manager, Market Research
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Charlotte, NC · $226,000 – $305,500
Lead research strategy and operations for Intuit Credit Karma's Money and Personal Finance business, managing a team of senior researchers and research operations staff. This role suits experienced research leaders who want to shape product direction through data-driven insights while building and developing a high-performing team.
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Research Science Manager, Foundation Models
Runway
Remote · $360,000 – $450,000
Lead and expand Runway's applied machine learning research team, bridging cutting-edge computer vision research with production deployment and product strategy. This role suits experienced ML researchers who want to transition into people management while staying hands-on with research that turns into real user-facing AI tools.
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Saint Charles, IL · $70,000 – $97,500
Lead applied research and experimentation within a meat processing plant to optimize products, processes, and equipment while providing technical support to operations teams. This role suits experienced food scientists or meat industry technologists who thrive solving practical manufacturing challenges and collaborating across scientific and operational disciplines.
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This is a research scientist role focused on building multimodal AI systems that help an editing agent understand video and audio content the way human editors do. The role suits someone with a strong deep learning background who wants to work on specialized models that ship to production, from research concept through to features used by millions of creators.
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Research Staff, Voice AI Foundations
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This role develops novel approaches to audio AI through research on Latent Space Models, focusing on neural audio codecs, generative speech synthesis, and efficient training methods that can scale voice AI across billions of hours of data. The position suits researchers who thrive on solving fundamental technical challenges in multimodal learning and have the drive to move from concept to production-grade systems rapidly.
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Research Scientist, Life Sciences (Chemistry)
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