Research Scientist

Who we are

We’re building Mo — a health companion for everyone.

We’re a small team within Alan, on a mission to redefine the future of care by democratizing access to medical expertise. We are building Mo, an intelligent, empathetic, multimodal LLM-based conversational AI assistant able to prescribe, triage, and proactively follow up on care.

Imagine giving every person in the world instant, 24/7 access to personalised medical expertise - through chat, voice, or video. That’s what we are building 🤖.

We kicked off the project in 2023. After a strong R&D phase, we’re now testing real products with real users, and preparing to scale fast.

🐼 Powered by Alan ♥️

You. Better. With Alan.

We’re part of Alan, a leading European health insurance and healthcare company. That gives us access to world-class resources: 700,000+ members, 32,000+ client companies, €500M+ ARR, a talented team of 600+ people, strong positioning in AI (co-founded Mistral AI)

We benefit from Alan’s platform, infrastructure, distribution, and health expertise — but operate with the speed and focus of a startup. If you’re curious about Alan’s broader vision, their Shareholder Letters (2025-Q1, 2024-Q4) are worth a read.

🤖 What keeps us up at night

We’re building a medical agent that works — reliably, safely, and at scale.

You’ll work at the intersection of AI research and clinical application. Our mission is to build the most accurate and reliable medical agent in the world, while delivering an outstanding conversational experience. Things we’re working on:

• 🧬 Build internal medical models — You’ll develop and evaluate foundation models and fine-tuned architectures for structured clinical reasoning. This includes working with curated datasets (e.g. clinical cases, EMRs, guidelines), building doctor-like reasoning agents, and iterating closely with medical experts.

• 📚Inject knowledge in clinical workflows — You’ll augment generation with structured clinical knowledge (e.g. drug databases, guidelines) using retrieval pipelines and hallucination-mitigation strategies.

• 🗣️ Push the frontier of voice-based agents for healthcare  — You’ll research and deploy streaming speech recognition and context-aware state switching — enabling Mo to handle real-time dialogue like a human clinician would.

• 📊 Develop eval frameworks for clinical AI —You’ll design and run evals, by hand and programmatically, to understand where our agents fail and improve them.

• 🧠 Build lifelong memory and personalization infrastructure — You’ll explore architectures for dynamic memory and personalized reasoning, enabling Mo to be a personal, relevant health companion

If you’re excited by the idea of building the future of healthcare, this is the team for you - we're at the start of the journey. If you’re curious, here is a paper we published recently.

🎯 Is it you we’re looking for?

We’re looking for Research Scientists with 3+ years of experience (or equivalent research track record) who get excited about building state-of-the-art AI systems and applying them to real-world, high-stakes problems in healthcare.

• You’ll work at the frontier of LLMs, multi-agent architectures, and human-in-the-loop learning — and see your work deployed in production, helping real people.

• You’ll tackle open-ended, high-risk research problems that demand rigor, creativity, and speed.

• You’ll work at the intersection of AI research and healthcare products, collaborating daily with doctors, engineers, and designers.

• You’ll have significant influence on research directions, system architecture, and evaluation methodology.

• You’ll mentor engineers and scientists, contribute to our research culture, and help build the team (including participating in hiring, shaping our interview loops, etc.).
  

You would be a good fit at Alan if most of this sounds like you:

• Strong background in machine learning, deep learning, and/or large-scale model training

• Experience with LLMs, RLHF, multi-agent systems, retrieval-augmented generation, or speech processing is a big plus

• Product-minded: you want your research to be used, not just written about

• Self-directed and pragmatic 

• Humble and still willing to grow (no matter your seniority!)

• Collaborative, enthusiastic about teamwork, learning, and teaching

• Fluent in English (no need to speak French!)

But above all, we are looking for high potential and curiosity: make sure to show us this when you apply! Everything else is a bonus.

🤘 How we do it ?

People joining Alan are often surprised and delighted by our innovative working method. We have a set of cultural values that guide our approach to work, such as:

1. Mission is the Boss: We have a mission-first focus with long-term thinking, where all employees act as owners seeking the company's success above all else.

2. Member & Customer-led: We are obsessively focused on solving customer problems and creating delightful experiences while building trust.

3. Excellence like Athletes: We maintain high standards and talent density, using the Keeper Test to ensure exceptional performance.

4. Enlightened Despots: We combine distributed ownership with accountability, empowering decision-makers while maintaining responsibility.

5. Radically Transparent: We make information accessible and written-first, promoting async communication while protecting sensitive data.

6. Kind, Methodic Optimists: We collaborate genuinely without ego, support teammates, and maintain positive intent while assuming the best.

7. Empathetic Challengers: We give direct feedback with empathy, praise strengths, and focus on growth through candid communication.

8. Bold & Creative Contrarians: We think differently to achieve greatness, challenge expertise with first principles, and embrace calculated risks.

9. Disciplined Executors: We focus on making good decisions quickly, maintain accountability, and break down problems into manageable pieces.

10. Fight for Simplicity: We eliminate unnecessary processes, stay concise and articulate, and maintain smart frugality while solving problems pragmatically.

🙌   Perks & Benefits

At Alan, we believe that being in good health is a basic need, and it starts with our employees. This is why Alaners are provided with a stimulating environment and perks ensuring they are happy, efficient and spend only high-quality time with co-workers. 

Therefore, we offer:

• Fair rewards. Generous equity packages complement your base salary, for permanent contracts only.

• Flexible Office. Amazing office space at our HQ, sponsored co-working hubs or a full-remote experience with home office equipment sponsorship, we want you to live where you’re the happiest.

• All the tools you need. Top of the range equipment: Macbook Pro, keyboard, laptop stand, monitor, and Bose noise-canceling headphones.

• Flexible vacation policy and flexible working hours. Organize your time as you wish.

• Delightful healthcare insurance: Extremely comprehensive health insurance - 100% for you and your children, 90-100% for partners depending on your country (permanent contracts only).

• Transport. Country-specific commuter benefits.

• Learning & Training opportunities. A highly flexible Training policy free books and budget to attend and speak at conferences if the opportunity arises.

• Personal growth through coaching: At Alan, coaching isn't just a perk - it's core to who we are. Every Alaner is paired with a dedicated coach from day one, who helps maximize their impact, nurture engagement, and navigate Alan's values to develop their full potential. Learn more about our coaching culture.

• Parental leave. Extended parental leave for all new parents, for permanent contracts only.

Important note: we hire people, not roles.

If you're excited about this opportunity but don't check every box, we'd love to hear from you. Everyone, no matter how underrepresented, should feel free to apply as it can only bring learnings or success.

If you identify yourself as a woman: Did you know that research shows women often apply only when meeting 100% of requirements?

Remember, this is just a guide, not a checklist.

We'll be thrilled to receive your application!

🔖 Check out our About Alan and Career pages, as well as our Medium, blog and Glassdoor page for more info.