Open Positions
Graduate Students and Postdocs
We are looking for creative, hardworking, and intellectually rigorous graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who are excited about developing computational techniques including neural networks, generative and/or foundation models, computer vision, algorithms, 3D modeling, and/or signal processing, to ask and answer important questions in computational imaging for clinical care. Candidates will be in a program for (grad students) or will have obtained (postdocs) a PhD degree in computer science, graphics, engineering, applied mathematics, physics, or related field. Candidates should be fluent in Python, including tools such as Tensorflow, Keras, or PyTorch; Pandas; Scikit; as well as other tools (e.g. d3.js, R, Matlab, pylab, seaborn, etc). Familiarity with computing in the cloud/on HPC is a plus. Our lab can accept graduate students from UCSF's Graduate Program for Biomedical Informatics (BMI), the joint UCSF-Berkeley Bioengineering program (BioE), or the UCSF UC Berkeley Joint Program in Computational Precision Health (CPH)
Project Manager, Data Science
We are looking for creative, hardworking, and technically-oriented project manager to operate at the crossroads of project management, data science, and data engineering.
Responsibilities include working closely with the Principal Investigator, laboratory members, and clinical collaborators to coordinate data science research projects; develop, organize, and maintain computational pipelines and clinical operating procedures; and coordinate communications for the laboratory (e.g. occasional website, lab calendar, IRB, and Twitter maintenance). The ideal candidate will have balance the above with their own small ML/DL project that adds to our work by extending our data extraction/labeling, organization, and/or analysis.
Candidates will have obtained a BS or MS degree or equivalent in computer science, computer engineering, statistics, applied mathematics, engineering, simulation, or related field. Candidates should be fluent in Python, and strong familiarity with at least some of Tensorflow/PyTorch, Pandas/Scikit/SQL, Slicer/Blender/OpenGL, HPC/AWS/similar, as well as tools for data visualization (e.g. d3.js, R, Matlab, pylab, seaborn, etc).
The ideal candidate will be excited about management of data science projects, organized and detail-oriented, and interested in eventually pursuing graduate study, industry, or medicine with a focus on clinical or translational research.
Working in the Arnaout Lab
ABOUT. The Arnaout laboratory studies deep learning and other computational methods for biomedical imaging and related clinical data, with the goals of decreasing diagnostic error and developing and scaling novel phenotypes to drive precision medicine. UCSF is a top-10 medical center and a leader in cross-campus efforts to mine, harmonize, and analyze multi-modal clinical data for the University of California’s 15 million patients. The Arnaout laboratory is part of the Bakar Institute, Center for Intelligent Imaging, Biomedical Informatics graduate program, and the nationally ranked Department of Medicine. Projects focus on deep learning for medical imaging, and through collaborative work with intra- and inter-institutional partners, also involve the electronic health record, genetics, and other data types.
POSITION. Positions offer an opportunity to participate in cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary research with transformational impact to clinical and research medicine across a wide array of diseases, working with decades of high-quality medical data alongside clinical domain experts. Positions also provide opportunities to publish, present at research conferences, and for professional advancement. Salary and benefits are set according to experience and to UCSF salary scales. UCSF is unable to sponsor H1B visas but can accomodate candidates with training visa types (OPT, CPT, F1, J1, etc) pending verification by the International Students and Scholars Office).
CONTACT. Email rima(dot)arnaout(at)ucsf(dot)edu with your CV and a clear but brief letter of interest, or click on the position to apply directly at UCSF BrassRing.