AI-Driven Genomic Medicine Research Fellow

University of Southampton; Southampton; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Athena SWAN principles

Pension scheme membership

Flexible working options

Job summary

University of Southampton invites applications for a full-time, fixed-term Senior Research Fellow in AI applied to Genomic Medicine. Based at the Southampton site, you will lead translational research to improve genomic diagnostics for autoimmune disease using genomic and clinical data integration.

You will develop and maintain LLM-based workflows, supervise early career researchers, and collaborate with colleagues across genomics, medicine, data science and compute infrastructure to deliver

Qualifications

• PhD in health informatics, bioinformatics, genomics, computational biology, data science, or a closely related field.
• Experience integrating genomic data with structured clinical data and familiarity with HPO, SNOMED CT and ICD-10.
• Hands-on experience with open-source LLMs, EHR data extraction, high-throughput sequencing data analysis and bioinformatics workflows.
• Strong programming skills and confidence across Linux environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead a project to extract structured clinical findings from EHRs using open-source LLMs and harmonise findings to ontologies.
• Drive translational research integrating clinical and genomic data for personalised diagnostics.
• Develop, implement and maintain robust, reproducible LLM-based pipelines with modern workflow systems.
• Produce rigorous research outputs and advance the research profile.
• Contribute to education and training in genomic data science for academic and clinical audiences.
• Manage early career researchers in planning and delivering project objectives.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary colleagues across genomics, medicine, data science and compute infrastructure.

Skills

Python

R

Bash

Linux

EHR data extraction

Open-source LLMs

Genomic data integration

Ontology management

Education

PhD in health informatics or related field

Tools

High-performance computing

Bioinformatics workflows

Job description

University of Southampton invites applications for a full-time, fixed-term Senior Research Fellow in AI applied to Genomic Medicine. Based at the Southampton site, you will lead translational research to improve genomic diagnostics for autoimmune disease using genomic and clinical data integration.

You will develop and maintain LLM-based workflows, supervise early career researchers, and collaborate with colleagues across genomics, medicine, data science and compute infrastructure to deliver