Postdoc: AI for Biomedical Data Platforms

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Chapel Hill (NC); On-site; USD 56,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and vision coverage

Paid leave

Professional development benefits

Job summary

The Renaissance Computing Institute ( RENCI ) at UNC Chapel Hill is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to contribute to innovative projects within the NIH BioData Catalyst ecosystem—a cloud-based platform for secure data access, analytics, and collaboration. This role advances data-intensive biomedical research and scalable workflows.

Ideal candidates hold a Ph.D. in a related field and have hands-on experience with LLMs, RAG, prompt engineering, ML development, and software engineering

Qualifications

• Experience deploying and working with LLMs.
• Agentic workflows and retrieval augmented generation ( RAG )
• Prompt engineering experience
• Developing, training, and testing machine learning (ML) models
• Software engineering expertise

Skills

LLMs deployment

RAG workflows

Prompt engineering

ML model development

Software engineering

Education

Ph.D. in Bioinformatics / Biomedical Informatics / Computer Science

Tools

Knowledge graphs (KGs)

Job description

The Renaissance Computing Institute ( RENCI ) at UNC Chapel Hill is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to contribute to innovative projects within the NIH BioData Catalyst ecosystem—a cloud-based platform for secure data access, analytics, and collaboration. This role advances data-intensive biomedical research and scalable workflows.

Ideal candidates hold a Ph.D. in a related field and have hands-on experience with LLMs, RAG, prompt engineering, ML development, and software engineering