Senior Research Engineer, Biomarker

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. Samsung’s 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 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. Samsung’s 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:

• Work with project team and contribute to data analysis, performance evaluation and other project milestone related tasks.
• Lead the development of innovative ideas and algorithms based on noisy signals from sensors including, but not limited to, light, audio, physiological, and inertial sensor data collected both in lab and field settings.
• Prepare proof-of-concept, demo / prototypes, design and execute pilot studies with mobile sensors.
• Generate patents and scientific research papers for top-tier publications.

 Required Skills:

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Biophysics, Mathematics, health sciences or related areas, or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
• 3+ years of demonstrable knowledge and experience in Image Processing, Machine Learning, Signal Processing, and their applications on mobile sensor data collected in lab and in the wild.
• Experience in one or more of the following programming languages: Python, Java, Android, MATLAB, R.
• Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills, ability to present complex information in an understandable and compelling manner, and comfortable working with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Publications in top-tier computing venues.

Special Attributes 

• Experience in computer vision, time-series data analytics
• Strong mathematics background, especially statistics
• Turn the analyzed data into actionable insight and/or understandable visualization
• On-device implementation of ML/AI algorithms in C/C++/Java
• Clinical study design, IRB development, in-lab and/or in-the-wild data collection studies
• Product development and prototyping experience in order to implement and validate solutions
• Experience in designing and conducting studies of wearable devices or clinical-trials with human subjects both in lab and field settings
• Good understanding of human physiology, non­invasive sensors used to measure digital biomarkers for health and behavior monitoring
• Working experience with optoelectronics sensors and data analysis
• Experience in embedded systems development and performance analysis
• Previous experience developing algorithms in healthcare research/industry using EMR/EHR and wearable sensor data
• Have working knowledge of the healthcare industry and experience curating and analyzing healthcare and wellness data
• Proficiency in the Android/Tizen/iOS development environment with the ability to create fully working prototypes
• Experience in collaborating on software implementations of algorithms and computing models with client and cloud engineers
• Understanding of human factors, usability and comfort with wearable sensors
• Experience operating under HIPAA is a plus

Last updated on Aug 28, 2024