Senior AI Research Engineer, Algorithms - Samsung Research America

Lab Summary:

Our mission is to empower people to live healthier lives by leveraging our wearables, smartphones, medical devices, AI, and health services.  We research, develop, and commercialize innovative digital health products and solutions by bringing together the full capabilities of our team, including product strategy and management, clinical expertise, partnerships, UI/UX design, usability research, clinical research and validation, software development, AI / Gen AI, and regulatory. Millions of Samsung users’ lives around the world have been touched by our products, including the Samsung HeartWise for cardiac rehabilitation and the Samsung ECG Monitor App . Samsung’s unique advantage in the consumer electronics market and growing focus on Digital Health and AI / Gen AI provides exciting technical challenges and rewarding career experience.  Join us!

Position Summary:

Samsung Research America Digital Health Team is looking for an outstanding Ph.D.-level Senior AI Research Engineer with solid ML/AI technology background and digital health-related research project experiences in digital biomarker, physiological signal process and multi-modality mobile sensing development. You need to have a strong track-record of success in academic and/or industrial settings. You will play a key role in delivering innovation in digital health domain, create technologies and intellectual properties, deploy and validate novel technologies, and transfer the mature outcomes to production and scientific publications in top-tier computing venues. We expect candidates who have solid data analytics skills and project experiences in areas such as mobile health systems and wearable computing.

You will be a core part of a passionate team charged with developing, incubating, and launching a portfolio of digital health product concepts that will disrupt the healthcare paradigm. By leveraging smart phones, wearables, embedded devices and the IoT in the health/wellness domain, your work will significantly benefit real-world patients, seniors, physicians and care givers. Samsung’s unique advantage in the consumer electronics market and growing focus on digital health will provide you with exciting technical challenges and a rewarding career experience.

Position Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the project team to contribute to data analysis, performance evaluation, and other milestone-related tasks.
• Lead the development of innovative algorithms and ideas based on noisy signals from sensors, including light, audio, physiological, and inertial data collected in both lab and field settings.
• Train novel health foundation models from scratch and fine-tune existing models to accelerate the development of new health and wellness offerings for Samsung wearables.
• Design and execute pilot studies, create proof-of-concept prototypes, and develop demos using mobile sensors.