Postdoctoral Scientist, Clinical Bioinformatics & AI

Baylor College of Medicine (BCM); Houston (TX); On-site; USD 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Baylor College of Medicine seeks a Postdoctoral Associate to collaborate on AI/ML/NLP projects integrating patient-level data to improve patient care. The role includes annotating clinical data, developing algorithms, writing manuscripts, and presenting findings locally and nationally within the AIH-Lab.

Experience driving clinical informatics research and collaboration with data scientists is valued; NIH stipend guidelines are typically followed for postdoc positions.

Qualifications

• MD or Ph.D. in Basic Science, Health Science, or a related field.
• No experience required.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates on the development of AI/ML/NLP-driven solutions for healthcare challenges.
• Reads and interprets patient-level data to support the development of AI/ML/NLP algorithms for clinical applications.
• Annotates medical notes and datasets to facilitate training and validation of predictive models.
• Collaborates with data scientists, ML engineers, and clinical collaborators to design, implement, and validate innovative algorithms.
• Conducts exploratory data analysis to extract meaningful insights from complex datasets.
• Writes manuscripts and prepare presentations for local, national, and international conferences.
• Conducts literature reviews and stays updated on bioinformatics, AI and clinical data analysis.
• Applies biostatistics and AI principles to inform study design and algorithm development.
• Tests, debugs, and validates models with clinical partners.
• Ensures ethical use of patient data in research and development.
• Works with AIH-Lab and BD-STEP to advance clinical informatics research.
• Leverages clinical expertise to refine ML models for clinical relevance and accuracy.
• Collaborates on integrating clinical datasets into health informatics systems.
• Provides expert annotations for training LLMs and NLP algorithms in healthcare use cases.
• Presents findings in department meetings and seminars; supports grant writing and funding.
• Mentors trainees or junior team members as needed.
• Performs other job-related duties.

Skills

AI/ML/NLP collaboration

Data annotation

Manuscript writing

Clinical informatics

Education

MD/PhD in Basic/Health Science

Tools

NLP frameworks

Job description

Baylor College of Medicine seeks a Postdoctoral Associate to collaborate on AI/ML/NLP projects integrating patient-level data to improve patient care. The role includes annotating clinical data, developing algorithms, writing manuscripts, and presenting findings locally and nationally within the AIH-Lab.

Experience driving clinical informatics research and collaboration with data scientists is valued; NIH stipend guidelines are typically followed for postdoc positions.