About the Company: At Nym, we’re passionate about simplifying healthcare by automating the accurate interpretation of clinical language. Our interdisciplinary team has developed innovative technology that can understand clinical language and provides an entirely new way of analyzing and decoding medical records into clear, concise, and actionable information. This ensures clinical and administrative teams can spend more time on patient care. At Nym, the future is bright. Our engine currently processes over five million charts annually in more than 150 emergency department and urgent care settings across the US. We are backed by top-tier VCs and are growing, with offices in NYC and Tel Aviv. Role description: Nym is seeking an experienced and visionary Head of Research to lead, shape, and advance the future of AI innovation across the organization. In this role, you will own the research strategy end-to-end - from long-term roadmap design to hands-on exploration, and guide a multidisciplinary team of NLP research engineers and linguists toward breakthroughs that elevate our core medical coding engine. You will play a key role in the company, balancing exploratory research with high-impact product delivery. You will partner with Product, Engineering, and executive stakeholders to identify strategic opportunities, drive prioritization, and translate research capabilities into real-world outcomes at scale. Responsibilities: Manage and mentor a multidisciplinary research team while driving both technical excellence and personal growth. Define the long-term research roadmap aligned with product and business objectives. Lead the full research lifecycle, from ideation and feasibility studies to experimentation, evaluation methods, and production-ready delivery. Evaluate and introduce new research capabilities and emerging trends such as LLM-based reasoning, semantic/graph modeling, hybrid rule-learning, and other frontier techniques. Continuously track scienti
