--- title: 'Applied AI Engineer at PhaseV' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/applied-ai-engineer-phasev-dereck-ha-shalom-st-4-577c70ty2e8s' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-16' --- # Applied AI Engineer at PhaseV - **Company:** PhaseV - **Location:** Dereck Ha'Shalom St 4 - **Posted:** 2026-01-15 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-16 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/phasev/jobs/4106268009 ## Job description Position Overview PhaseV is a technology company that redefines clinical development at scale with its enterprise-ready, multi-modal AI/ML platform. With over $65M raised from top investors, we are poised to make a significant impact on how drugs are developed and brought to market - ultimately helping effective treatments reach patients faster. We are seeking a talented and driven Applied AI Engineer to join our team. This is a unique opportunity to have a direct and real-world impact using AI by helping redefine how clinical trials are designed, optimized, and run. As an Applied AI Engineer, you will also join a high-caliber, multidisciplinary, cross-functional team spanning engineering, data science, and product. This role sits at the intersection of applied AI and product development, with a strong focus on building, deploying, and supporting production-grade AI systems that operate at scale. The ideal candidate will have a strong foundation in NLP and LLMs alongside proven experience building AI-powered services. ## Key Responsibilities Technical Development: - Build and maintain scalable, production-grade generative AI pipelines that integrate updating unstructured and structured data. - Research and develop robust agentic systems to solve complex clinical problems. - Develop evaluation frameworks for AI systems in clinical contexts. - Optimize representation and retrieval strategies to support explainable outputs. - Contribute to architectural decisions around AI services, APIs, and model orchestration frameworks. Research & Analysis: - Stay up-to-date with the latest developments in AI, machine learning, and related fields, exploring how emerging technologies can be applied to improve products and services. - Document and present methodologies and results for internal and external stakeholders. Collaboration: - Work cross-functionally with engineering, data science, and product teams. - Contribute to technical discussions and peer code reviews. - Support the preparation of technical documentation and research papers. ## Qualifications Education: - Master's in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering or a related field - Ph.D. is an advantage but not required Experience: - Strong understanding of NLP, LLMs, entity recognition, and evaluation techniques. - Experience designing and using embedding-based representations, including similarity search and retrieval workflows. - Hands-on experience building agentic workflows in production environments. - Proven experience working with unstructured data (e.g., free text, documents, notes) and applying techniques to transform it into structured formats. Skills: - Strong programming skills in Python. - Ability to clearly communicate complex technical concepts. - Experience with data visualization. - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. - Ability to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. Preferred: - Experience in the healthcare or biotech industry. - Experience with clinical data. - Experience with large-scale data processing. ## About PhaseV ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: PhaseV provides an enterprise AI/ML platform that optimizes every stage of clinical drug development, helping biopharma sponsors and CROs design smarter, faster, and more cost-effective trials. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A) - **Headquarters**: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States (with offices in Tel Aviv, Israel; London, UK; and the Netherlands) - **Founded**: 2023 - **Founders**: Raviv Pryluk, PhD (CEO, Co-Founder); Elad Berkman, MSc (CTO, Co-Founder); Dan Goldstaub, PhD (Scientific Co-Founder) ## Core Business - **Primary Industry**: Biotechnology Research / Healthcare AI - **Target Customers**: Biopharma sponsors and Contract Research Organizations (CROs) – B2B, Enterprise - **Mission**: To revolutionize clinical development by using causal machine learning and AI to accelerate decisions, de-risk trials, and bring life-saving treatments to patients faster and more efficiently. ## Products & Services - **[Trial Optimizer](https://www.phasevtrials.com/)**: AI-powered tool that designs adaptive and Bayesian clinical trials, runs millions of simulations within minutes, and enables real-time data-driven decisions to reduce costs by up to 50%, lower enrollment by 40%, shorten timelines by 40%, and boost probability of success by 30%+. - **[ClinOps Optimizer](https://www.phasevtrials.com/)**: Causal-ML driven site selection and real-time dashboards for trial and site performance analytics. - **[Lifecycle Management / Portfolio Optimizer](https://www.phasevtrials.com/)**: Combines causal evidence, development complexity, and market value to inform indication selection, asset viability, and portfolio decisions. - **[Response Optimizer](https://www.phasevtrials.com/)**: Identifies optimal subgroups and biomarkers by detecting heterogeneity in complex biological signals and multi-variable clinical data. - **Early-Derived Endpoint Identification**: Predicts and validates early-derived endpoints to accelerate decision-making, with proven case studies in neurology and immunology. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available - **Key Metric**: Total Funding of **$65M** (Seed $15M led by EXOR N.V. and Viola Ventures in Oct 2023; Series A $50M led by Insight Partners and Accel in June 2025) - **Annual Revenue**: Estimated **$32M** (per LinkedIn) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Insight Partners, Accel, EXOR N.V., Viola Ventures - **Growth Signals**: - Headcount grew **90.6% year-over-year** to 52 employees (as of mid-2026) - **45+** biopharma and CRO customers - **10M+** patient-level records in data lake - **50+** disease predictive models - **10+** scientific publications - **6,598** LinkedIn followers (+114.7% yearly) ## Competitive Advantages - **Causal ML & GenAI Core**: Unlike traditional AI, PhaseV uses causal inference to understand why treatments work, enabling more accurate predictions and adaptive trial designs. - **Expansive Data Lake**: 10M+ patient-level records combined with real-world data (RWD) to train models and validate endpoints. - **Multidisciplinary Team**: Combines veterans in machine learning, statistics, software engineering with clinical and pharma experts who have deep practical experience in optimization. - **Proven Results**: Real-world collaborations showing 30%+ higher probability of success, 40% lower costs, 40% shorter timelines, and 40% reduced enrollment. ## Strategic Focus - **Platform Adoption**: Scaling the enterprise platform across more biopharma sponsors and CROs globally. - **Partnerships**: Deepening relationships with strategic accounts and expanding alliance management. - **Indication Expansion**: Applying causal ML across various therapeutic areas beyond neurology and immunology. - **Talent Growth**: Rapidly hiring across data science, engineering, business development, and clinical roles in both Boston and Tel Aviv. ## Why Work Here - **Meaningful Impact**: Directly contribute to bringing life-saving treatments to patients faster by optimizing clinical trials. - **Cutting-Edge Technology**: Work with advanced AI/ML, causal inference, and GenAI tools to solve complex healthcare challenges. - **Collaborative Culture**: Join a diverse, multidisciplinary team of experts from healthcare, technology, and life sciences. - **Growth Trajectory**: 90%+ headcount growth, recent $50M Series A, and strong commercial momentum offer significant career advancement opportunities. - **Locations**: Hybrid/office presence in Boston, MA and Tel Aviv, Israel with some remote flexibility. Offices also in London and Netherlands. - **Perks**: Not explicitly listed, but the careers page emphasizes meaningful impact, collaborative culture, and cutting-edge technology as key draws. [phasevtrials.com/careers](https://www.phasevtrials.com/careers) ## Sources 1. [phasevtrials.com](https://www.phasevtrials.com/) – Product descriptions, company overview, results 2. [phasevtrials.com/about](https://www.phasevtrials.com/about) – Founders, mission, team overview 3. [phasevtrials.com/careers](https://www.phasevtrials.com/careers) – Careers page, why join, open roles 4. [linkedin.com/company/phasevtrials](https://www.linkedin.com/company/phasevtrials) – Employee count, revenue, funding, headcount growth, locations, departments 5. 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