AI Scientist

Ultromics; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading innovative healthcare company in Oxford is seeking an AI Scientist to conduct research on AI-based solutions for medical imaging. The role involves developing algorithms for echocardiography analysis and requires a doctorate in a related field. Strong programming skills in Python and experience with deep learning are essential. The company promotes flexible working hours and offers a supportive, collaborative environment focused on revolutionizing cardiovascular diagnostics.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Hybrid working options

Bonus scheme

Life assurance

Company-wide events

Generous personal learning budget

Qualifications

• Doctorate in Machine Learning, AI, computer science, or equivalent.
• Strong programming skills in Python.
• Experience with software development tools.

Responsibilities

• Conduct research on AI-based medical image analysis.
• Develop algorithms for AI-enabled medical image analysis.
• Document and publish research findings.

Skills

Python programming

Machine Learning

Deep learning

Data analysis

Communication skills

Creative problem solving

Education

PhD in Machine Learning or related field

Tools

PyTorch

Git

Jira

Azure

Job description

About Ultromics

Picture yourself at one of the world's most innovative companies, providing life-saving AI solutions that can make a real difference in helping to combat one of the world's biggest health burdens. Surrounded by teams and people who challenge you, support you, and inspire you to be extraordinary. Are you ready to join the fight against heart failure?

We are redefining Cardiovascular Medicine through transformational AI solutions and work alongside major collaborations such as Mayo Clinic and the NHS England, with one shared ambition, to save lives.

Ultromics is a global leader in AI-powered cardiovascular imaging diagnostics, transforming how heart disease is detected, assessed, and managed. Spun out from the University of Oxford, UK and built on a decade of world-leading research, Ultromics is redefining echocardiography with solutions that deliver actionable insights to clinicians and healthcare systems.

Our unique cloud SaaS platform leverages advanced FDA cleared AI diagnostics to unlock complex cardiovascular conditions, including heart failure, cardiac amyloidosis, and more. We have established a world‑class clinical evidence base with over 25 peer‑reviewed publications, global collaborations with leading academic institutions and healthcare providers, and pivotal partnerships with life sciences organizations focused on drug development and commercialisation.

Ultromics is backed by some of the worlds most influential healthcare and technology VC investors, including Google Ventures (GV), Optum Ventures (UnitedHealth Group), Blue Venture Fund (Blue Cross Blue Shield), and other leading U.S. and U.K.-based funds. These strategic partnerships accelerate our access to healthcare systems, payers, and life sciences organisations, and support our ambition to reshape cardiovascular care on a global scale.

Ultromics is one of the first AI echocardiography solutions to achieve Category III CPT reimbursement from CMS in the U.S., unlocking a scalable commercial pathway and accelerating adoption in routine clinical care. Our growing product portfolio includes tools for disease detection, disease progression assessment, and treatment eligibility evaluation.

We are now expanding our reach, integrating into major healthcare systems and advancing partnerships with life sciences, pharma, and medtech companies to support drug trials and post‑market surveillance. Our platform is poised to become the standard in AI‑driven cardiovascular diagnostics, enabling better outcomes for patients and more efficient care delivery for providers.

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a mission‑led company tackling one of the worlds biggest health challenges: heart failure.
• Contribute to cutting‑edge AI technologies backed by robust research, regulatory clearances, and reimbursement pathways.
• Collaborate with a passionate, multi‑disciplinary team of clinicians, scientists, engineers, and commercial experts.
• Work at the intersection of healthcare, AI, and medical imaging with opportunities to shape the future of diagnostics.
• Join us and help change the future of heart health making cardiovascular disease more detectable, treatable, and survivable for patients everywhere.

Your Role

As an AI Scientist, you will carry out applied research on novel AI‑based solutions for automated analysis of medical images and other types of data relevant to healthcare. You will work within the AI Research Team to support the science and innovation that will underpin next generation products using deep learning, computer vision, mathematical, statistical and machine learning methods. You will draw on your technical and scientific expertise to keep the company at the forefront of ground‑breaking research.

In this role, you will focus on designing, implementing and evaluating an LLM driven multi‑agent pipeline that orchestrates clinical guidelines, third‑party tools, in‑house models, and local analytics to automatically analyse echocardiographic studies, produce structured clinical reports, and support interactive clinician review/clarification.

Your Responsibilities

• Independently lead, and carry out research to characterise and address problems related to echocardiography image analysis, and deliver it in a timely manner.
• Develop new algorithms and computational tools for AI‑enabled computational medical image analysis involving image quantification, disease detection, etc.
• Document research findings, experiments, and results clearly and concisely.
• Write up research papers for the purposes of publication, and abstracts to present at international conferences.
• Ensure you keep up to date with the latest advances in AI, deep learning and medical imaging and utilise these new techniques in your research.
• Work closely with clinical scientists, AI engineers and other teams.
• Work with internal engineering teams to help transfer research outputs and code as art of the process of commercialisation.
• Review research code created by other team members.
• Review documents, designs, and colleagues code and providing constructive feedback.
• Follow good information governance practice throughout this job role and ensure compliance with Ultromics information security and data protection policies in all applicable assigned tasks.
• This list of duties is not exhaustive, and the post holder may be asked to carry out other duties through discussion with their line manager.

Requirements: Your Skills And Experience

• Doctorate in Machine Learning, Image analysis, AI, computer science or other mathematical/scientific background, or equivalent research experience.
• Strong programming skills in Python, and in the use of technical and scientific libraries such as PyTorch, scikit‑learn, Pandas, etc.
• Experience with software development tools (such as git).
• Strong presentation, writing and communication skills.
• Analytical skills - ability to structure and process qualitative or quantitative data and draw insightful conclusions from it.
• Creative, innovative- generates new and innovative solutions to problems.
• Works effectively with others, contributes strongly, recognises the value of differing contributions, supportive and collaborative.
• Strong background in deep learning for vision and / or language: transformers, multimodal architectures, sequence/video models.
• Good understanding and practical experience with large language models (LLMs), agentic AI, prompt engineering and tool calling patterns.
• Ability to work to tight deadlines.
• Strong intellectual curiosity and passion to apply innovative ideas to solve real‑world problems.
• Strong research track record in the field.
• Adaptability / flexibility - adjusts quickly to changing priorities and conditions.

Your Desired Skills and Experience

• Background in medical imaging.
• Hands on experience building multi agent systems or agent frameworks that orchestrate tool calls and reasoning.
• Experience with vision language foundation models and video to text summarisation for clinical use cases.
• Prior publications in medical imaging, multimodal LLMs, or agentic AI.
• A good understanding of risks involved in use of sensitive information in AI.
• Experience with project management tools (Jira, Confluence, etc).
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure for training and deployment of AI models.
• Experience in a venture capital-backed start‑up or scale‑up environment.

Our Benefits

• Flexible working hours between 7am - 7pm
• Hybrid working options
• Bonus scheme
• PMI & cash plan
• Life assurance
• Company-wide events
• Two additional paid Company holidays in December (if they fall on Monday - Friday)
• Two paid volunteering days per year
• Team meal budget
• Wellness benefit
• 5% company pension contribution
• Employee referral rewardI
• Generous personal learning budget on our online learning marketplace, Learnerbly
• Cycle Scheme
• A well‑stocked kitchen with free snacks - and great coffee!

Our Values

• Prioritising Patients: Everything we do is focused on improving patients lives - through earlier diagnosis, better pathways to treatment, and meaningful clinical outcomes.
• Scientific Integrity: We are evidence-led and clinically grounded. We pursue truth over convenience, upholding the highest standards of precision, validation and transparency.
• Bold Innovation: We challenge convention, embrace complexity, and push boundaries to transform cardiovascular diagnostics through AI.
• Commitment and Craft: We show up with purpose, work hard, and take pride in our impact.
• Kindness and Respect: We treat each other, our partners, and our users with consideration and empathy.