Lead Scientist, AI for Medical Imaging

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital; Memphis (TN); On-site; USD 104,000 - 186,000; Full time

Job summary

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, TN invites applications for a Senior Scientist leading ML/DL model development for medical imaging and biomedical informatics.

The role emphasizes high-impact research, collaboration with radiologists, and mentorship of postdocs and PhD students. Applicants should have a strong track record in imaging AI, LLMs, and scalable data pipelines, with fluency in Python and modern DL frameworks.

Qualifications

• PhD or substantial research in imaging AI or biomedical informatics.
• Strong publications in ML/DL for imaging and/or biomedical data.
• Experience with multi-institutional data and curation.

Responsibilities

• Lead research projects applying state-of-the-art ML/DL and foundation models to medical imaging.
• Design 2D/3D model architectures (CNNs, transformers, vision-language).
• Adapt LLMs to biomedical/imaging problems and deploy solutions.
• Collaborate with radiologists and clinicians to ensure clinical relevance.
• Mentor postdocs and PhD students; oversee reproducibility and versioning.

Skills

ML/DL methods

Foundational AI models

Medical imaging

Radiology collaboration

Data curation

Python

PyTorch

Research mentorship

Publish research

Git

Education

Bachelor's degree

PhD

Master's degree

Tools

Git

PyTorch

TensorFlow

HPC/Cloud

Job description

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, TN invites applications for a Senior Scientist leading ML/DL model development for medical imaging and biomedical informatics.

The role emphasizes high-impact research, collaboration with radiologists, and mentorship of postdocs and PhD students. Applicants should have a strong track record in imaging AI, LLMs, and scalable data pipelines, with fluency in Python and modern DL frameworks.