2025 Summer Intern, Digital Health Research Partnerships

Lab Summary:

Samsung Research America Digital Health Team (https://www.sra.samsung.com/digital-health/) collaborates with top hospitals, healthcare-industry partners, and universities to transform how healthcare is delivered and good health sustained. We use design thinking to address some of healthcare’s toughest challenges, from improving care and producing better outcomes, to reducing costs and expanding access. 

Focusing on wearable, mobile, and cloud-based form factors, our multi-disciplinary team develops innovative technologies that we then turn into groundbreaking commercial products to support clinicians, patients, and consumers. We use advanced sensor technology to capture physiologic responses and make use of our AI/ML framework to build algorithms that detect and trigger alerts for specific health conditions. We employ data analytics to supplement clinical care and facilitate remote patient monitoring, thereby helping patients make behavioral changes that improve their health and daily lives. 

Our portfolio of digital health solutions are important tools in helping clinicians and their patients monitor and manage serious health conditions, such as cardiovascular disease, pulmonary disease, and cancer; as wells chronic illnesses including mental health, diabetes, hypertension, depression, sleep disorders, and obesity. Our work encompasses the entire range of processes, from ideating, developing, and incubating; to designing and delivering market-ready products; to supporting and evolving currently released products.

Position Summary:

We are looking for a student to help support our growing research partnerships in two domains. The first domain will be to help support clinical studies for novel biomarkers and novel digital therapeutics with our existing suite of wearables and sensors, carried out in collaboration with large academic centers. The second area is Emerging Technologies – a pipeline of early stage technologies spanning sensor hardware and algorithms to expand the use cases of our devices, including smartphones, wearables, hearables, and novel devices. A strong candidate will have a solid technology background (bioengineering, medical devices, applied physiology, and biosensors), as well as a foundational understanding in design and execution of clinical studies with digital health technologies. This may include digital health-related research project experiences in health data analytics, physiological signal processes, clinical trials with biostatistics experience, and basic understanding of data structures and data flow for digital health studies. An ideal candidate will also have experience in evaluating different technologies for technical viability and market feasibility, ideally augmented with translational experience in industry or other evidence of understanding the business case for novel technologies. By leveraging smartphones, wearables, and hearables in health/wellness domain, your work will significantly benefit real-world consumers, patients, the elderly, physicians, and caregivers.

Position Responsibilities:

• You will work with experienced physicians, clinical trialists, technologists, biomarker researchers, and business leaders to scope, evaluate, and establish proof of concept studies for new technologies.
• You will work with our Sponsored Research team to liaise with academic medical centers and hospitals to ensure multiple deliverables from our clinical studies, including but not limited to contributing to data analysis, site management, manuscripts and patents.

Required Skills:

• Currently pursuing a Master’s or PhD level degree in engineering, biosciences, or clinical fields
• Experience in basic data analysis, signal processing, time-series data analytics, digital health domain
• Strong knowledge in clinical study design and basic statistics
• Basic understanding of biosensors from wearables and the clinical correlates they measure
• Good communication/presentation skills and teamwork spirit
• Hunger to learn and grow

Our total rewards programs are designed to motivate and engage exceptional talent. The hourly pay rate range for roles at this level is listed below, but may be higher or lower in other states due to geographic differentials in the labor market. Within the hourly pay rate range, individual rates depend on a number of factors—including the role’s function and location as well as the individual’s knowledge, skills, experience, education and training. This is part of our comprehensive compensation package with annual bonus eligibility and generous benefits to help you live life well.Hourly Pay Rate Range$44—$63 USD

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