St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Senior Scientist– AI for Medical Imaging & Biomedical Informatics
Memphis, TN · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$104k-$186kDetected 12 days ago
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About the role
- This position sits within a well-resourced, data-rich research environment, with access to large, multi-institutional datasets and St.
- Jude Children's Hospital's excellent high-performance computing resources.
- This role is expected to focus on high-impact model development, novel methods research, and academic output, with opportunities for clinical translation where appropriate.
Responsibilities
- Build scalable pipelines for data preprocessing, model training, evaluation, and deployment
- Develop quantitative imaging methods (e.g., volumetrics, density measurements, biomarker extraction)
- Collaborate closely with radiologists, clinicians, and engineering teams to ground research in what is actually useful and feasible in clinical practice
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to postdoctoral fellows and PhD students, including project design, code/method review, and manuscript preparation
- Lead and contribute to manuscripts, grant applications, and technical reporting
- Experience training, fine-tuning, and/or deploying LLMs (inference optimization, prompt/agent design, or related work)
- Technology may support portions of our process, but recruiting decisions involve human review and engagement.
Requirements
- Some datasets will already be curated, but others will require the lab to perform its own data curation and annotation, so experience with these tasks is a valuable asset.
- Ten (10) years relevant work experience is required
- Eight (8) years of relevant work experience is required with a Master's degree
- Five (5) years of relevant work experience is required with a PhD
- Bachelor's degree in relevant scientific area is required
Nice to have
- Experience with imaging modalities beyond radiology (e.g., microscopy, pathology, or other biomedical imaging)
- Experience working directly with clinicians, with some clinical knowledge or exposure that helps distinguish which research directions and model outputs are actually useful in practice
- Broader background in biomedical informatics (e.g., multi-omics, EHR data, clinical NLP)
- Experience with large, multi-institutional datasets, including data curation and annotation
- Experience with cloud or high-performance computing environments
- Experience deploying models into research environments
- Exposure to translational AI development or regulatory-aware research (e.g., FDA pathways), though this is not the focus of the role
- PhD in Computer Science, Data Science, Biomedical Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent research experience)
Compensation
- In recognition of certain U.S. state and municipal pay transparency laws, St.
- Jude is including a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role.
- It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the salary range and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.
- A reasonable estimate of the current salary range is $104,000 - $186,160 per year for the role of Senior Scientist- AI for Medical Imaging & Biomedical Informatics.
- This is an estimate offered in good faith and a specific salary offer takes into account factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs.
Benefits
- Design and implement 2D and 3D model architectures (CNNs, transformer-based, and foundational/vision-language models)
- Minimum Education and/or Training:
- Familiarity with DICOM and medical imaging workflows
- Explore our exceptional benefits!
Company info
- We are committed to a human-centered hiring experience.
Equal opportunity
- Jude is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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