VP Research (Foundation Models)

Visium · lausanne, vaud, Switzerland

Location

lausanne

Job Type

Full-time

Posted

June 14, 2026

Job Description

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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