Lead Agentic AI Scientist for Biomedical Data Systems

St Jude Children's Research Hospital; Memphis (TN); On-site; USD 86,320 - 154,960; Full time

Job summary

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee invites applicants for an Agentic AI Scientist in the Office of Data Science to design, develop, and evaluate advanced AI agents that support research and operational workflows.

The role focuses on building and orchestrating AI agents, secure infrastructure, and translating AI capabilities into high‑impact solutions. You will lead agentic AI projects, mentor staff, and contribute to technical reporting while ensuring responsible

Qualifications

• Minimum: Bachelor's in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Biomedical Engineering, or a related field with 6+ years of relevant experience (OR) Master's with 4+ years (OR) entry-level PhD with no work experience.
• Publication benchmark: 1 to 2 first-author papers with journal impact factor >5 or equivalent contribution to other research/open‑source outputs.
• Preferred: prior applied-ML or agentic-AI research; demonstrated shipping of LLM-integrated systems; healthcare or research-intensive domain experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead computationally focused agentic‑AI research and engineering projects with moderate supervision from the manager.
• Design and orchestrate agent systems over ODS data and tools.
• Stand up and maintain MCP servers/clients and A2A-interoperable agents that connect ODS assets under HIPAA-aligned patterns.
• Identify, process, organize, summarize, review, and report results; instrument every agent with tracing, evaluations, and budgets.
• Draft manuscripts and technical reports and guide other staff in agentic‑AI techniques.
• Mentor others in agentic AI best practices and standards.

Skills

Agentic AI

ML research

Python

Project coordination

Education

Bachelor's in CS/Bioinformatics/Biomedical Eng

Master's in related field

Tools

OpenTelemetry

LangSmith

Job description

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee invites applicants for an Agentic AI Scientist in the Office of Data Science to design, develop, and evaluate advanced AI agents that support research and operational workflows.

The role focuses on building and orchestrating AI agents, secure infrastructure, and translating AI capabilities into high‑impact solutions. You will lead agentic AI projects, mentor staff, and contribute to technical reporting while ensuring responsible