Senior AI Scientist
Covera HealthAbout the role
About the company
At Covera, we're committed to ensuring high-quality healthcare is more than just a promise. That's why we're leading the way in the emerging science of quality, and connecting providers and payers in their shared quest to improve patient outcomes and care quality. By tackling this challenge, we have the ability to impact millions of lives by raising the standard of care nationwide.
Our initial focus is radiology, where an early and accurate diagnosis has a profound impact on the rest of a patient's care journey. Through our work, which uses clinically-validated science-based tools, we're helping doctors enhance their care, ensuring patients get the right diagnosis, and enabling the healthcare system to support quality improvement at scale.
Through our clinical intelligence platform, we have launched programs that help people access the most effective care and provide doctors with AI-powered quality insights and tools to enhance their care. Today, Covera is partnered with leading employers, payers and healthcare organizations across the US, including Walmart and Microsoft. And, with a pipeline representing over 25% of insured Americans, we are in the early stages of improving care quality for all patients across the globe.
About the role
We are looking for a talented Senior AI Scientist with a focus on Deep Learning to join us in our commitment to improve the quality of care for patients in every community across the nation. You will work with an experienced multidisciplinary team of talented AI scientists, data scientists, engineers, and clinicians to leverage unique healthcare data (in the form of MRI/X-Ray/CT images, clinical reports, and beyond). You will have the opportunity to work with extremely diverse and entirely unique radiology and healthcare datasets that extend to all phases of care delivery (referral, diagnosis, therapy, and outcome/follow-up) from the perspective of all key stakeholders (patients, providers, payers). You will utilie state-of-the-art compute resources, both in-house and on cloud.
In this role, you will be expected to:
- Create AI algorithms that will be deployed to reduce misdiagnosis in radiology and improve patient care
- Investigate, develop and evaluate new AI methods to improve Covera’s understanding of radiology reports and images
- Drive innovation and publications and represent Covera Health at scientific and industry conferences
- Collaborate with data science, clinical and engineering team members to help us build and deploy our clinical research roadmap
- Mentor junior researchers and drive AI development processes
- Be passionate about improving patient care using AI
- Play an active role in further building the Covera team by joining interview panels and contributing to cross-company projects after onboarding
Requirements:
- PhD or MS in computer science, math, physics or related discipline
- 2+ years of work experience after PhD or 4+ years experience after MS
- Strong deep learning background and familiarity with state-of-the-art NLP and/or CV techniques
- Applied programming experience in Python and PyTorch
- Experience conducting independent research
- Excellent ability to work well as an individual contributor as well as within a multidisciplinary team environment
- Strong communicator with excellent interpersonal skills and can-do attitude
- Preferred experience:
- Exposure to medical imaging applications of AI
- Experience training at scale with multi-gpu setups and large volumes of data. Experience with methods such as model and data parallelism, model sharding and mixed-precision training .
- Contribution to research communities and/or journals, including NIPS, ICML, ACL, CVPR, MICCAI, etc.
AI at Covera
At Covera Health, AI is not a novelty. It's a core part of how we work. Every team member is expected to actively use AI in their day-to-day role, and we invest in building that fluency across the organization. If you lean into new tools and are energized by what's still possible, you'll fit in.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical plans - choose from three plans, including one with 100% of premiums covered for you and your dependents
- Vision & Dental
- Flexible Time Off - take the time you need, when you need it
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Annual Professional Development Stipend to invest in courses, books, or any other professional development related activity
- Annual Wellness stipend for fitness, mental health or other wellness expenses
We may use automated tools or AI to assist in reviewing applications.
The minimum and maximum base salary for this position ranges from
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