Quantitative Research Engineer
Location Chicago, Illinois Business Unit Northwestern Medicine Corporate Job REQID 147156 Job Function Information Technology Shift Day Job (1st) Type of Employment Full-Time Apply NowBenefits
- $10,000 Tuition Reimbursement per year ($5,700 part-time)
- $10,000 Student Loan Repayment ($5,000 part-time)
- $1,000 Professional Development per year ($500 part-time)
- $250 Wellbeing Fund per year($125 for part-time)
- Matching 401(k)
- Excellent medical, dental and vision coverage
- Life insurance
- Annual Employee Salary Increase and Incentive Bonus
- Paid time off and Holiday pay
Northwestern Medicine is powered by a community of colleagues who are purpose-driven and committed to our mission to deliver world-class care. Here, you'll work alongside some of the best clinical talent in the nation leading the way in medical innovation and breakthrough research with Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
We recognize where you've been, and we support where you're headed. We celebrate diverse perspectives and experiences, which fuel our commitment to equity and culture of service.
Grow your career with comprehensive training and development opportunities, mentorship programs, educational support and student loan repayment.
- Create the life you envision for yourself with flexible work options, a Reimbursable Well-Being Fund and a Total Rewards package that support your physical, mental, emotional and financial well-being.
- Make a difference through volunteer opportunities we offer in local communities and drive inclusive change through our workforce-led resource groups.
From discovery to delivery, come help us shape the future of medicine.
Description
The Quantitative Research Engineerreflects the mission, vision, and values of NM, adheres to the organization’s Code of Ethics and Corporate Compliance Program, and complies with all relevant policies, procedures, guidelines and all other regulatory and accreditation standards.
The Research and Development Engineer is responsible for developing technology that impactful. Focuses on solving real-world problems that will work seamless with the end user.
Northwestern Medicine Information Services drives innovative, high-value solutions to transform health care.
We are committed to supporting the relentless pursuit of better medicine by providing exceptional service to our patients and guests as well as internal clients across the organization. To ensure excellence, our team goes to extraordinary lengths to ensure that our systems work together seamlessly.
Northwestern Medicine understands that technology plays an integral role in shaping the future of health care. Information Services strategically supports the organization by:
- Leveraging AI, automation and rollout of advanced cyber controls that support digital transformation strategies
- Implementing advanced technologies in clinical and administrative areas
- Furthering development of the end user support model to help enhance modern infrastructure
Responsibilities:
- Design software and hardware solutions in a team-based environment.
- Working closely with the end user to support and improve workflows.
- Stay current on development tools, programming techniques and computing equipment; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications.
Qualifications
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or related technical field or Master’s related to healthcare with some technical background.
- Experience working directly in software development, ML/AI, or healthcare related field.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Comfort meeting with range of technical and clinical staff.
- Experience and proficiency with:
- Manipulating a broad range of data types (e.g. text, 2D images, time series data)
- Traditional ML techniques (gradient descent, decision trees, etc.)
- High-level machine learning APIs (Pytorch, JAX, Tensorflow)
- Design and optimization of data pipelines
- Python (or similar Object-Oriented language) or C.
- git/Github
- Containers
Preferred:
- Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or related technical field
- Experience with a range of data types and manipulations
- Multimodal unstructured data (text, 2D images, video, 3D/4D tomographic imagery, waveforms, time series, sparse data)
- Understanding of how to write optimized data queries (SQL, NoSQL, legacy formats)
- ML/AI tools and methods:
- ML/AI optimization for training (distributed and others) and inference (ONNX)
- Deep neural network architectures (transformers, convolutional neural networks, recurrent neural networks, etc.)
- Design and optimization of high throughput data pipelines and computer infrastructure
- Low-level hardware programming (C, C++, Rust, assembly, Verilog/VHDL)
- Network design and infrastructure
- Containerization platforms and orchestration infrastructure (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Hybrid cloud infrastructure combining on-and-off prem high performance computing.
- Data and infrastructure security
- Domain specific tooling
- Weights & Biases/Tensorboard, unit testing methodologies, management of large code bases.
- Ability to robustly document solutions, including diagrams, charts, etc.
- Integrating code base with standardized documentation platforms (Sphinx)
- Healthcare
- Health care data experience (PHI/HIPAA, HL7 FHIR)
- Familiarity with FDA regulation
- Applied clinical experience.
Equal Opportunity
Northwestern Medicine is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of age, sex, race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation or any other protected status.
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