Applied AI Scientist
About The Position
Applied AI Scientist The Opportunity: To achieve an organization’s mission, leaders need strong team members who can create processes, communicate requirements, and develop innovative solutions throughout the execution of the mission. Whether completing an immediate task, recognizing a process gap, recommending a solution, or flexing to support an emerging requirement, our clients need an advisor who can help manage operations while managing responses to external inquiries in a timely manner. That is why we need you, an experienced Applied AI Scientist who can contribute expertise across the full lifecycle of AI system development: data aggregation and curation, model training and benchmarking, and deployment and validation in real-world clinical settings. As part of our team, you'll serve as a strategic technical advisor to the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), helping conceptualize, create, and execute advanced government-funded research and development programs to accelerate better health outcomes for everyone. Work with world-class scientists and engineers to support the development of high-impact solutions to society's most challenging health problems. Leverage technical expertise to provide strategic assessments of new technologies in support to senior ARPA-H decision makers. Maintain responsibility for producing and presenting findings and recommendations to a team of colleagues and clients on the feasibility and potential impact of future research programs, assisting with the management of current programs, and facilitating the commercialization of successfully developed technologies. You'll serve as an Applied AI Scientist for Health, helping clients to critically assess technical approaches, advise program leadership, and ensure that funded performers and partners are meeting the highest standards of rigor, reproducibility, and real-world applicability. You will be responsible for managing incoming requirements, facilitating engagements within offices and across the Agency, and will be readily available to shift your focus to fulfill emerging client requests. Your attention to detail, flexibility, communication skills, understanding of the client's mission, and problem-solving will enable the mission's success. Join us. The world can't wait.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience with Applied AI in the Health domain
- Experience applying advanced ML methods to complex health datasets, including clinical and biomedical data types, such as EHR, genomic, and imaging data
- Experience in evaluation methods for AI/ML, including robustness, fairness, interpretability, and reproducibility
- Experience in interacting and communicating with senior-level executives
- Experience with using Microsoft Office, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
- Ability to review, critique, and guide AI/ML technical work at a high level
- Ability to operate independently within a fast-paced start-up environment
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or Suitability/Fitness determination based on client requirements
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or Data Science field
Nice To Haves
- Experience working in technical advisory, evaluation, or SETA-style roles
- Experience working with interdisciplinary teams, including clinicians and patient stakeholders
- Experience in healthcare AI or biomedical applications
- Experience with the rare disease field.
- Possession of excellent oral and written communication skills
- PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science, or related field
Responsibilities
- Serve as a strategic technical advisor to the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)
- Conceptualize, create, and execute advanced government-funded research and development programs to accelerate better health outcomes for everyone
- Work with world-class scientists and engineers to support the development of high-impact solutions to society's most challenging health problems
- Leverage technical expertise to provide strategic assessments of new technologies in support to senior ARPA-H decision makers
- Produce and present findings and recommendations to a team of colleagues and clients on the feasibility and potential impact of future research programs
- Assist with the management of current programs
- Facilitate the commercialization of successfully developed technologies
- Critically assess technical approaches
- Advise program leadership
- Ensure that funded performers and partners are meeting the highest standards of rigor, reproducibility, and real-world applicability
- Manage incoming requirements
- Facilitate engagements within offices and across the Agency
- Shift focus to fulfill emerging client requests
Benefits
- health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care
- recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
1-10 employees
