VP Research (Foundation Models)

Visium • lausanne, vaud • Posted June 14, 2026

About the Role

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...