Data Scientist - Image Processing & Computer Vision

• Company Biofourmis
• No. of Openings 10+
• Salary Not Disclosed
• Work Type on-site

Job Description :

Biofourmis is a rapidly growing, global digital health company filled with committed, passionate professionals who care about augmenting personalized care and empowering people with complex chronic conditions to live better and healthier lives. We are pioneering an entirely new category of medicine by developing clinically validated, software-based therapeutics to provide improved outcomes for patients, smarter engagement & tracking tools for clinicians, and cost-effective solutions for payers. We are collectively devoted to a single-minded idea: powering personally predictive care.

Our dynamic growth has been marked by quadrupled headcount in the last 12 months via both expansion & acquisition, yielding a global footprint with offices in Boston, Singapore, Bangalore, and Zurich. We are backed by prominent international venture capital investment & have cultivated relationships with worldwide healthcare stakeholders over the last 5 years. Our talented team features numerous PhD’s in Data Science and Biostatistics, over 80 patents, prolific scientific publications, world-class systems, developers & engineers, and leaders in the clinical operations space.

Summary:

Biofourmis is looking for Data Scientists in the field of image processing and computer vision to join our R&D team. The ideal candidate should have passion in using advanced machine learning techniques to make sense of biosensor data and image data in the medical field. We are building end-to-end services that integrate seamlessly into the lives of patients via multiple touchpoints to improve patients’ quality of life and outcomes.

Responsibilities:

• Developing scalable models and algorithms by leveraging state-of-the-art computer vision and machine learning techniques for medical image/video analysis, synthesis, and other related tasks.
• Conducting cutting-edge research in image/video related algorithms. Drive innovations by integration with other biosignals processing.
• Documenting clearly on how algorithms have been designed, implemented, verified, and validated.

Experience / Training:

• Hands on experience with development of image/video data analytics solutions in any of the field: face recognition, eye-movement tracking, emotional analysis, walking-step analysis, posture detection techniques, X-ray/MRI medical image processing etc.
• Deep understanding of state-of-the-art computer vision techniques in areas such as object detection, image classification, 3D reconstructin, etc; Familar with transfer learning and able to modify the underlying logics of those architectures.
• Experience with healthcare data, human physiology or cardiology is a plus.
• Publishing papers in top AI conferences or journals is a plus, including but not limited to CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICML, NeurIPS ICLR, KDD, AAAI, IJCAI, etc.

Education:

• PhD in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering or related fields with strong computer vison or medical image processing skills. (Masters with related working experience may be considered).

Skills:

• Proficient with pattern recognition, image/video analysis, signal processing, anomaly detection, semi-unsupervised learning, and hypothesis testing.
• Proficient with programming in Python. Strong Programming in C/C++ is a plus.
• Experience with face recognition and emotional auto-analysis techniques.
• Familiar with one type of medical image (e.g. X-ray, ultrasound imaging, etc) is a plus.
• Good research ability and critical thinking skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Understanding of the lifecycle of mobile application development is a plus (Familiar with tools such as Android Studio, Eclipse, XCode, etc.); Proven experience in mobile algorithm integration is a plus (Familiar with tools such as Android-OpenCV, Vision Framework, ML-Vision Kit, Speech Framework, etc.)