Data Engineer - Chair in Artificial Intelligence for Precision Personalized Medicine

Are you a Data Engineer passionate about leveraging cutting-edge technologies to transform healthcare?

The "Chair in Artificial Intelligence for Precision Personalized Medicine" at CiTIUS is seeking a highly skilled professional to drive innovation in health data integration, advanced AI deployment, and privacy-conscious solutions for personalized medicine.

Key responsibilities include managing health data pipelines, deploying High-Performance Computing (HPC) solutions for AI, implementing federated learning techniques, ensuring compliance with data privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR), and supporting interoperability through health standards. Additionally, the role involves handling Big Data challenges, enabling scalable and efficient analysis of large, complex datasets.

Join a dynamic team at the intersection of data engineering and medical research to make a meaningful impact on healthcare.

Who are we?

CiTIUS is as research centre specialised in Intelligent Technologies with a team of more than 120 researchers. Our team is the greatest asset of our centre and we are continuously looking for technological talent. CiTIUS provides a stimulating, interdisciplinary and cutting-edge scientific environment, where our personal can foster and develop their scientific or technological career in an international team.

We are in a high-level scientific environment with five research centres specialized in different areas (CiQUS, CiMUS, IGFAE, CRETUS and CiTIUS). Santiago de Compostela is a UNESCO World Heritage City with more than 5 million square meters of green spaces and one of the 100 best places in the world by TIME Magazine 2021. See more here.

What we offer

• An extensive international network of scientific and technological collaborators.
• Professional development and training plan aimed at improving technical and transversal skills.
• State-of-the-art scientific facilities with equipped laboratories, our own data processing centre and free access to the second supercomputing centre in Spain (CESGA), located on the same Campus.
• A professional research support team with extensive experience in project management, financing opportunities, technology transfer, IT management, dissemination and outreach, HR management, economic and administrative management.
• Flexible working schedule. CiTIUS is committed to reconcile a work and family life of its employees.
• Access to university facilities: gym, sport activities, language courses, libraries, nursery, etc.
• Possibility to participate in dissemination events with industry and outreach activities with scholars, organised throughout the year.

Who can apply?

We are looking for candidates with a degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering, or related fields, with experience in health data engineering, the deployment of AI solutions for personalized medicine, and ensuring data privacy and security in healthcare systems.

Desirable skills

• Highly motivated candidates with experience in health data engineering.
• The candidate will be organized, hard-working and have the ability to work in a team and interdisciplinary environment.
• Good communication skills.
• Fluent English.

Position details

• Full-time contract with a gross salary of about 3.000 €/month (approx. 36.000€ annual gross salary). It includes medical care coverage and work accident insurance through the Spanish Health System, as well as pension and unemployment benefits.
• The position has a duration of 2,5 years

Application

The application must contain information of the research background and work experience, including:

• A complete CV, including personal contact information.
• A motivation letter.

If you are interested in applying, please send your application to citius.rrhh@usc.es with the subject line [EOI] Data Engineer – Cátedra IA-MPP

FEMALE CANDIDATES ARE PARTICULARLY ENCOURAGED TO APPLY

Deadline of the pre-selection process

PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION BY THE 10 January 2024.

Questions or clarifications about this call or the application process can be directed to the CiTIUS Knowledge and Transfer Management Unit: citius.rrhh@usc.es