Director Data AI in Medical AI Startup wdm 50-100

What we are doing

Our mission is to prevent vision loss and ultimately blindness by developing AI software that assists eye doctors in therapy planning for their patients. We use computer vision deep learning models(AI) trained on thousands of cases and millions of images to identify and predict disease progression. The decision support algorithm targets popular eye diseases like Agerelated Macular Degeneration (AMD 7.5mio affected in Germany alone).

Tasks

Your responsibilities as Director Data & AI

• Strategic Leadership: Enhance and implement a comprehensive data and AI strategy aligned with the companys business goals.
• AI Expertise: Oversee and participate in the design development and deployment of machine learning models algorithms and data pipelines. Evaluate AI trends such as federated learning and transformers.
• Team Development: Extend mentor and develop a highperforming team of data scientists machine learning engineers and data engineers. Foster a culture of continuous learning and collaboration within the AI team.
• Data Sourcing: Extend our network of clinical and pharma partners to increase diversity of our worldleading longitudinal OCT and clinical dataset.
• Ethical AI: Establish guidelines and frameworks for bias minimization data privacy & security and meeting regulatory requirements (MDR FDA).

Requirements

What we are looking for

Your musthaves

• 6 years of handson experience in AI model development data engineering image processing and/or data science ideally with a focus on medical CV
• Masters or PhD in engineering science or medicine
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to get what you need from stakeholders in English (C1)

Your nicetohaves

• Commercial product development experience ideally for SaMD/MLMD
• Leadership experience in data science/engineering
• Healthcare startup or founder experience
• Experience in ophthalmology and OCT imaging

Benefits

What we offer

• Direct impact on improving quality of life for patients & doctors
• Team responsibility & fast personal growth
• Flexible working hours remote work & office at Munich main station
• Competitive compensation package incl. stock options

Reach out to us with information about your availability salary expectations and a link to your conclusive profile (GitHub/LinkedIn/CV). Please share with us why you want to help us in preventing blindness with AI.