Overview:

The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is the nonprofit, applied research division of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). Founded in 1934 as the Engineering Experiment Station, GTRI has grown to more than 2,900 employees, supporting eight laboratories in over 20 locations around the country and performing more than $940 million of problem-solving research annually for government and industry. GTRI's renowned researchers combine science, engineering, economics, policy, and technical expertise to solve complex problems for the U.S. federal government, state, and industry.   

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Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

Project/Unit Description

Job Purpose

The Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) Engineer develops AI/ML algorithms, cloud computing, and/or heterogeneous distributed computing infrastructures to support the deployment of AI/ML applications. The AI/ML Engineer also researches the mathematical foundations and frameworks for nonlinear systems characterized by time-varying and emerging dynamics of evolving or adaptive systems. The AI/ML Engineer develops technical solutions at the leading edge of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Genetic Programming, Computer Vision, and advanced data processing, filtering, and fusion techniques in high-performance computing and distributed heterogeneous computing environments. The AI/ML Engineer writes parallel processing programs to deploy ML models developed by data scientists into more complex systems. The AI/ML Engineer has familiarity with state-of-the-art, open-source software frameworks and high-performance computing accelerators for machine learning. When conducting research, the AI/ML Engineer leverages the most recent advances in statistical analysis of large data sets to advance state-of-the-art automated sensor and data processing for a broad range of intelligent and sensor-enabled systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Apply tools and frameworks to deploy machine learning models - Conduct data conditioning, processing, filtering, and fusion to support the creation of automated algorithms
• Make decisions regarding implementation based on available hardware (e.g., embedded systems, cloud, server infrastructure)
• Design application logging capabilities and perform debugging with available logs

Additional Responsibilities

• Make a meaningful impact on health research by preparing data, analyzing longitudinal trends, performing statistical analyses, building data visualizations, and communicating findings. This includes research projects utilizing claims, observational, demographic, survey, and other types of health data.
• Uncover important trends from data by integrating data from multiple sources, ensuring data quality, and managing metadata. Utilize linked data sets to better understand clinical findings, longitudinal trends, geospatial factors, health disparities and demographic trends.
• Engage in health research by exploring literature in computer science, statistics, and mathematics to find innovative solutions for real-world health research problems. Develop and apply novel solutions to address health research challenges, including the use of machine learning models, statistical models, large language models, and other AI-centered tools.
• Support fellow researchers by mentoring students, junior data scientists, and public health researchers. Collaborate on multidisciplinary research, and review work for quality improvement. Communicate verbal and written feedback in a clear and effective manner.

Required Minimum Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Strong statistics, computer science, or data analytics background.
• Experience analyzing health data, including but not limited to claims data, electronic medical record data, and public health survey data.
• Familiarity with clinical data standards including LOINC, SNOMED, etc.
• Experience accessing and analyzing diverse data sets, including flat files (i.e. CSVs), APIs, and relational databases (i.e. Postgres).
• Experience in performing analytical tasks with data including statistical methods and data visualization.
• Experience communicating and presenting data findings, both written and verbal.
• Experience mentoring or teaching data science concepts and communicating technical concepts to lay audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong experience with Python libraries, including but not limited to pandas, numpy, matplotlib, etc.
• Experience with R and Shiny.
• Experience working with sensitive health care data (PHI/PII) and secure environments.
• Experience working with the OMOP Common Data Model / OHDSI tools.
• Experience working in cloud environments, such as Databricks.
• Experience building data visualizations with Tableau and Power BI.
• Experience using analytical skills to perform population-level estimation and patient-level prediction.
• Experience with natural language processing, LLMs, VLMs, and other AI tools.
• Experience with building, running, and, tuning machine learning models.
• Experience gathering and cleaning data from the web via APIs and other web scraping techniques.

Travel Requirements

<10% travel

Education and Length of Experience

This position vacancy is an open-rank announcement. The final job offer will be dependent on candidate qualifications in alignment with Research Faculty Extension Professional ranks as outlined in section 3.2.1 of the Georgia Tech Faculty Handbook

• 2 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Biomedical Informatics, Computer Science, Data Analytics, Applied Mathematics
• 0 years of related experience with a Masters’ degree in Statistics, Biomedical Informatics, Computer Science, Data Analytics, Applied Mathematics

U.S. Citizenship Requirements

Due to our research contracts with the U.S. federal government, candidates for this position must be U.S. Citizens.

Clearance Type Required

None

Benefits at GTRI

Comprehensive information on currently offered GTRI benefits, including Health & Welfare, Retirement Plans, Tuition Reimbursement, Time Off, and Professional Development, can be found through this link: https://benefits.hr.gatech.edu/.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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