Research Engineer

NYU Langone Hospitals; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

NYU Grossman School of Medicine invites applications for a Research Engineer specializing in machine learning and medical imaging. You will build and deploy ML models within clinical workflows, collaborating with clinicians and engineers to validate and operationalize models on large-scale medical imaging datasets and other modalities.

The role emphasizes developing infrastructure and pipelines, adhering to regulatory standards, and advancing ML innovations in healthcare.

Qualifications

• Masters or higher in a technical field; strong foundation in ML, statistics, probability, optimization, experimental design.
• Experience building ML models with large-scale datasets and deploying them in real environments.
• Proficiency with ML frameworks and CV/NLP libraries (PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, transformers, OpenCV).
• Proficiency in Python; ability to work independently in a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to design, training, and evaluation of large-scale foundation models across multimodal data.
• Handle dataset extraction and curation, model training, testing, and validation for clinical relevance.
• Analyze model deficiencies and propose refinements to improve outcomes.
• Perform data analysis to extract patterns and improve modeling of complex data.
• Create and maintain infrastructure and data pipelines.
• Adapt ML architectures to GPUs and distributed clusters.
• Ensure SOPs and regulatory/compliance alignment.

Skills

ML fundamentals

Statistics & probability

Model deployment

Python scripting

Independent worker

Education

Master's degree in CS/CE/biomedical Eng/Applied Math

Bachelor's with 1 year experience

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

scikit-learn

OpenCV

Transformers

Job description

NYU Grossman School of Medicine is one of the nation's top-ranked medical schools. For 175 years, NYU Grossman School of Medicine has trained thousands of physicians and scientists who have helped to shape the course of medical history and enrich the lives of countless people. An integral part of NYU Langone Health, the Grossman School of Medicine at its core is committed to improving the human condition through medical education, scientific research, and direct patient care. At NYU Langone Health, equity and inclusion are fundamental values. We strive to be a place where our exceptionally talented faculty, staff, and students of all identities can thrive. We embrace inclusion and individual skills, ideas, and knowledge.

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Position Summary:

We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Research Engineer.

We are looking for a highly motivated and passionate Machine Learning Research Engineer to join our team who has expertise in machine learning, computer vision, and software engineering. This is a unique opportunity to work in the interdisciplinary area of machine learning and healthcare as you will not only work on developing machine learning models but will also have an opportunity to deploy the models in real clinical workflows, thereby enabling you to make a real-world impact by saving and/or improving the lives of real people.

As an ML Research Engineer, you will be a part of an interdisciplinary group of research scientists, clinicians, and engineers. In close collaboration with your colleagues, you will help develop, validate, and deploy machine learning models. You will be responsible for building and maintaining the necessary infrastructure and software pipelines to facilitate this work. You will engage with interdisciplinary research topics and develop machine learning solutions for various complex and novel problems using large scale medical imaging datasets and datasets of other modalities. Lastly, you will operate under standard procedures and protocols in regulatory and compliance.

Job Responsibilities:

Job Responsibilities will include (but are not limited to):

1. Contribute to the design, training, and evaluation of large-scale foundation models integrating multiple modalities (e.g., text, images, genomics, medical records);

2. Be responsible for parts of pipeline associated with developing such models, including extraction and curation of the datasets, implementing and training/testing/validating the machine learning models to ensure clinical relevancy;

3. Be involved in model analyses to understand their deficiencies and thereby to propose refinements to improve end outcomes;

4. Be involved in data analysis to extract patterns in large swaths of data to acquire insights into the nature of the data, in turn enabling us to model it better;

5. Create and maintain the necessary infrastructure and software pipelines;

6. Adapt machine learning and neural network algorithms and architectures to best exploit modern parallel environments, such as GPUs and distributed clusters;

7. Ensure Standard Operating Procedures and protocols are developed, maintained and applied that comply with regulatory mandates of all appropriate/applicable governing bodies.

Minimum Qualifications:

To qualify you must have a
Masters degree in computer science, computer engineering, biomedical engineering, applied mathematics, or a related technical field; or a bachelors degree with at least one year of relevant work experience
Strong foundation in machine learning, statistics, probability, numerical optimization, and experimental design
Experience building machine learning models, preferably using large-scale datasets and deploying them in real-world environments (on-premise or in the cloud)
Expertise in modern machine learning frameworks, and CV and NLP libraries (PyTorch, Tensorflow, scikit-learn, transformers, OpenCV, etc.)
Proficiency developing and debugging in scripting languages such as Python
Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively in a multidisciplinary team environment

Preferred Qualifications:

Familiarity with radiology standards and software is beneficial but not required (DICOM, NIfTI, PACS, FSL, etc)
Prior exposure to, or some domain knowledge of, machine learning applications in medical imaging and/or medical text

Qualified candidates must be able to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization.

NYU Grossman School of Medicine provides its staff with far more than just a place to work. Rather, we are an institution you can be proud of, an institution where you'll feel good about devoting your time and your talents. At NYU Langone Health, we are committed to supporting our workforce and their loved ones with a comprehensive benefits and wellness package. Our offerings provide a robust support system for any stage of life, whether it's developing your career, starting a family, or saving for retirement. The support employees receive goes beyond a standard benefit offering, where employees have access to financial security benefits, a generous time-off program and employee resources groups for peer support. Additionally, all employees have access to our holistic employee wellness program, which focuses on seven key areas of well-being: physical, mental, nutritional, sleep, social, financial, and preventive care. The benefits and wellness package is designed to allow you to focus on what truly matters. Join us and experience the extensive resources and services designed to enhance your overall quality of life for you and your family.

NYU Grossman School of Medicine is an equal opportunity employer and committed to inclusion in all aspects of recruiting and employment. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration. We require applications to be completed online.

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