VP Research (Foundation Models)

Visium

📍 zürich, zurich, Switzerland 💼 Full-time 🕒 Posted July 07, 2026

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Role  
As a VP of Research - Foundation Models (Distinguished Scientist / Research Lead), you will own: 
Pre-training strategy and execution for biologics foundation models built from scratch across modalities (architecture, data, representation, scaling, evaluation). 
Continued pre-training and adaptation of vertical LLMs for regulated industries. 
The full training stack in practice: data pipelines, distributed training, scaling laws, evaluation harnesses, checkpointing, failure recovery. 
Research direction, standards and review for a small founding team. 
Translating frontier research into models that hold up in regulated, real-world use. 
You’ll be a hands-on Research Lead / Distinguished Scientist role - not a manager of managers - owning architectures, training runs, and technical direction alongside a founding team of elite researchers. Freedom to publish, established compute resources, and direct collaborati...
            

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Job Details

Location zürich, zurich
Job Type Full-time
Category CAR
Posted Date July 07, 2026
Application Deadline August 16, 2026