BD is hiring a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to help develop clinically meaningful AI/ML solutions for continuous physiological monitoring, disease detection, and predictive clinical decision support. The role focuses on building end-to-end algorithms and deploying them across cloud systems and edge medical devices, working with multi-modal healthcare data to support monitoring and risk workflows.
What you'll do
- Lead the design, development, validation, and deployment of AI/ML algorithms for continuous physiological monitoring, novel vital sign and physiological parameter development, disease detection, risk stratification, and early warning systems.
- Develop models using multi-modal sources, including physiological waveforms and time-series signals such as PPG, blood pressure, capnography, and other monitoring signals, along with bedside and wearable sensor data, electronic health records, and structured clinical data.
- Translate clinical and physiological understanding into robust algorithm design, including feature selection, model architecture, performance targets, and clinically interpretable outputs.
- Build end-to-end development pipelines for data ingestion, signal quality assessment, annotation, feature extraction, model training, validation, robustness testing, and post-market performance monitoring where applicable.
- Partner with clinical, medical affairs, regulatory, quality, and product teams to align development with clinical context, usability, safety, and regulatory considerations.
- Develop and optimize algorithms for cloud environments and for edge or embedded medical devices, accounting for latency, memory, compute, power, cybersecurity, and reliability constraints.
- Support verification, validation, documentation, risk analysis, and design controls for regulated medical technology products.
- Contribute to intellectual property generation, technical strategy, research roadmaps, and external scientific engagement.
What you bring
- 7+ years of industry experience in AI/ML, algorithm development, biomedical signal processing, healthcare analytics, medical devices, or related technical areas.
- Master’s or PhD degree preferred in Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Computational Biology, or a related engineering or quantitative field.
- Deep expertise in machine learning and AI model development, including classical and modern approaches.
- Hands-on experience with physiological time-series data, biomedical signals, medical device data, or clinical datasets.
- Understanding of human physiology as it relates to patient monitoring.
- Demonstrated experience developing algorithms from early feasibility through productization or deployment.
- Experience with multi-modal healthcare data, including sensor signals, EHR data, imaging data, lab data, and clinical outcomes.
- Strong programming skills in Python and experience with ML/AI frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, or equivalent tools.
- Experience building and deploying algorithms in cloud environments using Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- Experience optimizing models for constrained environments, including embedded systems, edge devices, or near-real-time medical technology platforms.
- Strong understanding of model evaluation, including sensitivity, specificity, AUROC, calibration, false alarm burden, clinical utility, robustness, and generalizability.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to engineering, clinical, regulatory, and business stakeholders.
Technologies
- Python; PyTorch; TensorFlow; scikit-learn
- Azure; AWS; GCP
- Transformer-based models and foundation-model approaches
Preferred qualifications
- Experience developing AI/ML algorithms for regulated medical devices, digital health products, clinical decision support tools, or Software as a Medical Device (SaMD).
- Familiarity with medical device development practices, including design controls, risk management, verification and validation, human factors, clinical performance evaluation, and regulatory documentation.
- Experience with signal quality assessment, artifact detection, missing-data handling, sensor fusion, uncertainty quantification, and explainable AI.
- Familiarity with MLOps and model lifecycle management, including version control, data governance, automated testing, and post-deployment monitoring.
Compensation and location
- Location: USA CA - Irvine Laguna Canyon (onsite)
- Salary range: USD 129,600 - 207,400 per yearly
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, health savings and flexible spending accounts
- Life and disability insurance
- Wellness resources
- Mental health support
- Disease management programs
- 401(k) and deferred compensation programs
- Financial counseling and DailyPay
- Educational savings resources, educational assistance
- Paid time off and company holidays
- Parental leave, adoption assistance, backup care, caregiving support
- Employee assistance programs
- Commuter benefits
- Pet insurance
- Legal services and associate discount programs
- Bereavement leave, military leave, personal leave, family and medical leave, jury duty leave