Senior AI Research Engineer, Algorithms

Lab Summary:

Our mission is to empower people to live healthier lives by leveraging our wearables smartphones medical devices AI and health services. We research develop and commercialize innovative digital health products and solutions by bringing together the full capabilities of our team including product strategy and management clinical expertise partnerships UI/UX design usability research clinical research and validation software development AI / Gen AI and regulatory. Millions of Samsung users lives around the world have been touched by our products including the Samsung HeartWise for cardiac rehabilitation and the Samsung ECG Monitor App. Samsungs unique advantage in the consumer electronics market and growing focus on Digital Health and AI / Gen AI provides exciting technical challenges and rewarding career experience. Join us!

Position Summary:

Samsung Research America Digital Health Team is looking for an outstanding Ph.D.-level Senior AI Research Engineer with solid ML/AI technology background and digital health-related research project experiences in digital biomarker physiological signal process and multi-modality mobile sensing development. You need to have a strong track-record of success in academic and/or industrial settings. You will play a key role in delivering innovation in digital health domain create technologies and intellectual properties deploy and validate novel technologies and transfer the mature outcomes to production and scientific publications in top-tier computing venues. We expect candidates who have solid data analytics skills and project experiences in areas such as mobile health systems and wearable computing.

You will be a core part of a passionate team charged with developing incubating and launching a portfolio of digital health product concepts that will disrupt the healthcare paradigm. By leveraging smart phones wearables embedded devices and the IoT in the health/wellness domain your work will significantly benefit real-world patients seniors physicians and care givers. Samsungs unique advantage in the consumer electronics market and growing focus on digital health will provide you with exciting technical challenges and a rewarding career experience.

Position Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the project team to contribute to data analysis performance evaluation and other milestone-related tasks.
• Lead the development of innovative algorithms and ideas based on noisy signals from sensors including light audio physiological and inertial data collected in both lab and field settings.
• Train novel health foundation models from scratch and fine-tune existing models to accelerate the development of new health and wellness offerings for Samsung wearables.
• Design and execute pilot studies create proof-of-concept prototypes and develop demos using mobile sensors.
• Generate patents and publish scientific research in top-tier journals and conferences.

Required Skills

• Computer Science Computer Engineering Biomedical Engineering Electrical Engineering Biophysics Mathematics Health Sciences or related field or equivalent combination of education training and experience.
• 3 years of experience in Signal Processing Machine Learning Deep Learning and their applications to large-scale time-series data.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages: Python Java Android MATLAB or R.
• Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills with the ability to present complex information clearly and effectively. Comfortable working in multi-disciplinary teams.
• First-author publications in top-tier computing venues.

Special Attributes (Preferred)

• Ability to turn analyzed data into actionable insights or clear visualizations.
• Experience in clinical study design IRB development and conducting in-lab or in-the-wild data collection studies.
• Product development and prototyping experience to implement and validate solutions.
• Good understanding of human physiology and non-invasive sensors for measuring digital biomarkers in health and behavior monitoring.
• Experience developing healthcare algorithms using EMR/EHR and wearable sensor data.
• Familiarity with HIPAA compliance.

Additional Information

Disclosure of Trade Secrets

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Essential Job Functions

This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk communicate in person and by telephone and frequently operate standard office equipment such as telephones and computers.

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