Data Scientist - Research Sovereign AI

Data Scientist Foundational Model Science

Position Summary

The Data Scientist for Foundational Model Science is the senior technical leader, and the lead scientist responsible for designing, training, and governing Mayo’s multimodal foundational model. This model forms the core intelligence layer used by clinical departments, researchers, agentic workflows, and sovereign AI collaborations. The individual will work as a hands-on architect, model-builder, and researcher while acting as a player–coach, guiding strategy and building a future team.

Key Responsibilities

Scientific & Technical Leadership

• Design multimodal foundational model architectures integrating signals from imaging, text, waveforms, structured data, graph representations, and temporal embeddings.
• Develop fusion, alignment, and cross-modal reasoning mechanisms (early fusion, late fusion, token-level fusion, hybrid models).
• Define and implement methods for grounded clinical reasoning, retrieval-augmented inference, graph-augmented attention, and chain-of-thought verification.
• Establish protocols for model lifecycle governance, safe update cycles, drift-aware re-training, and provenance tracking.

Hands-On Modeling & Training

Cross-functional Collaboration

Team Leadership