Research Co-Founder (Equity Only) at Periscopiclabs.com

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Job Title: Research Co-Founder

Company Description: Periscopiclabs.com - Emergent Ventures backed biomedical research platform

Job Description:
You will own the scientific and ML core of Discovery Synth, architecting novel retrieval, reasoning, and knowledge representation systems for high-stakes biomedical research. This is a true co-founder role where you will design multi-source evidence synthesis frameworks that outperform manual processes, moving beyond simple API wrappers to build foundational infrastructure for scientific discovery.

Location: London, UK

Why this role is remarkable:

• High-equity founding role with total ownership over the research agenda and technical roadmap from day zero.

• Backed by Tyler Cowen’s Emergent Ventures, tackling a massive market with a benchmarked product that completes months of manual work in hours.

• Opportunity to publish novel frameworks in scientific NLP and evidence extraction while building a product with immediate clinical and pharmaceutical impact.

What you will do:

• Architect production-grade retrieval-augmented generation and reasoning systems that handle heterogeneous data types across clinical and mechanistic domains.

• Design and implement sophisticated knowledge representation systems and ontology mapping to treat scientific evidence as a first-class object.

• Lead the technical strategy and evidence extraction pipelines, ensuring high accuracy against gold-standard published evidence for major pharmaceutical use cases.

The ideal candidate:

• Proven track record of rigorous systems-level ML research with publications at top-tier venues like NeurIPS, ICML, ACL, or EMNLP.

• Experience at a frontier AI lab such as DeepMind, OpenAI, or Anthropic, or a leading academic research group at institutions like Cambridge, Stanford, or UCL.

• Strong engineering fundamentals with the ability to bridge the gap between theoretical research and building scalable, production-ready scientific discovery tools.

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