Head of AI Research — Real-Time Surgical Foundation Models

Dex; Greater London; Presencial; GBP 120.000 - 180.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Dex seeks a Head of AI Research to define and execute a 12–24 month roadmap for surgical foundation models. You will scale a research group from an initial lead engineer to a high-caliber team of researchers and ML engineers, while coordinating with clinical and regulatory stakeholders.

This role requires leading academic partnerships, securing public grants, and steering patent strategy to push real-time edge AI in surgical settings. Based in the UK with close ties to the London tech scene.

Formación

• PhD in computer vision, medical imaging, or robotics with 5+ years of post-doc leadership.
• Record of first- or senior-author publications at top-tier venues (MICCAI, IPCAI, CVPR, or IEEE TMI).
• Proven track record leading an applied team of five or more researchers and engineers, with at least one method shipped to production or trials.

Responsabilidades

• Direct the core research roadmap across three foundational streams: real-time stereo surface reconstruction from surgical video, foundation-model adaptation for intraoperative kinematics and imaging, and deformable registration with quantified error bounds.
• Scale and lead the AI research group, hiring research scientists, machine learning engineers, and doctoral fellows while establishing internal research standards and publication cadences.
• Establish handover criteria—accuracy, latency budgets, robustness, and documentation to transition architectures into production engineering.
• Collaborate with Clinical Affairs and Regulatory to design validation protocols across bench, phantom, cadaveric, and live clinical environments.
• Direct academic partnerships, serve as named principal investigator on competitive public grants, and lead patent/publication strategy.

Conocimientos

Research leadership

Grant funding

Publications

Edge latency

Team building

Educación

PhD in computer vision/medical imaging/robotics

Herramientas

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Descripción del empleo

Dex seeks a Head of AI Research to define and execute a 12–24 month roadmap for surgical foundation models. You will scale a research group from an initial lead engineer to a high-caliber team of researchers and ML engineers, while coordinating with clinical and regulatory stakeholders.

This role requires leading academic partnerships, securing public grants, and steering patent strategy to push real-time edge AI in surgical settings. Based in the UK with close ties to the London tech scene.