A*STAR

Senior Research Engineer, Healthcare & Medtech, I2R

A*STAR
ResearchSingaporeOnsitePosted 3 weeks ago

About the role

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A research engineer position at the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, focusing on developing data engineering, data mining, and machine learning pipelines for digital health and precision medicine applications. This role involves working in a highly inter-disciplinary R&D team to transform patient care through ambitious projects.

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Key Responsibilities

  • Exploration, sensemaking, and preprocessing of raw disparate healthcare datasets.
  • Design and development of data preparation and ETL workflows and pipelines for large multimodal healthcare datasets to support AI/ML solutions.
  • Translating findings into downstream AI model development, inference, and evaluation tasks.
  • Collaborating with experts in machine learning, public health, precision medicine, clinicians, and government entities on high-impact projects.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Biomedical Engineering, Health Informatics, Computational Biology, or other Data Science intensive fields.
  • Strong data science, data engineering, and programming abilities.
  • Proven experience in two or more of the following: Large-scale data exploration/engineering, Biomedical/healthcare data preprocessing, Knowledge extraction/feature engineering, Machine learning methods.
  • Ability to work independently and collaboratively in highly interdisciplinary teams.
  • Quick learner with the ability to acquire necessary domain knowledge rapidly.
  • Proficiency in spoken and written English.
  • Rigorous analytical thinking and knowledge of research methods.