Biomedical Research Scientist - Health and Wellbeing

The Meta Health and Wellbeing team is seeking a biomedical research scientist who will report to the Manager of Health and Wellbeing Research and work alongside other members of the Health and Wellbeing team, aimed at improving health outcomes throughout the world. In this role, as a member of our interdisciplinary team, you will plan and execute research on novel digital approaches to measuring and improving health and wellness, with a focus on high-quality health data collection.Biomedical Research Scientist - Health and Wellbeing Responsibilities

• Work with biomedical sensors and systems to collect and analyze physiological data (specifically, time series multimodal data) for characterizing health and wellness applications
• Develop and implement signal processing, data analysis, and data visualization using keen understanding of physiology, physical systems and statistics
• Develop methods and standard operating procedures involving lab instrumentation and prototype bring up for data collection in order to test features, algorithms or models
• Design and execute studies with engineering test protocol and report to validate algorithms for biomedical applications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• Master’s or PhD in biomedical engineering or equivalent, with relevant coursework and experience in signal processing, sensor development, and experimentation
• Master’s degree with 8+ years of experience or PhD with 5+ years of experience
• Experience programming in Python, developing well-documented code and familiarity with software development requirements
• In-depth subject matter knowledge of digital health research projects
• Experience working in interdisciplinary research and/or product development teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of human physiology and prior research experience in the field of health is highly desired
• Direct industrial experience in consumer/digital health and wellbeing product development and/or research, with demonstration of success working within and across multi-disciplinary teams (for example, project or product managers, software engineers, research scientists, machine learning data scientists)
• Experience in PyTorch, Numpy and Pandas
• Experience in developing specialized software tools for biomedical measurement data
• Familiar with data pipeline and data investigations

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US$147,000/year to US$208,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

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