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Biomedical and Health AI Scientist (KTP Associate)

University of Essex - School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering

Location: London, Paddington, Hybrid
Salary: £39,900 per annum.
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Fixed-Term/Contract
Placed On: 2nd October 2025
Closes: 29th October 2025
Job Ref: REQ09583
 

KTP
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs) are a unique UK-wide activity that help businesses to improve their competitiveness and productivity by making better use of the knowledge, technology and skills within universities, colleges and research organisations.

Further information is available at: https://iuk-ktp.org.uk/

THE PROJECT
The University of Essex, in partnership with Hurdle, offers an exciting opportunity to a graduate with the relevant skills and knowledge to develop an AI-enabled biomarker discovery engine, using multi-modal data, to address growing demand in the precision medicine market for disease risk prediction services.

DUTIES OF THE POST
The duties of the post will include:

  • Developing an AI-enabled biomarker discovery engine, using multi-modal data, to address growing demand in the precision medicine market for disease risk prediction services.
  • Handling and analysing biomedical signals, medical text and image data.
  • Accessing, managing and handling new to Hurdle data types such as EHRs and wearable signals.
  • Fusing these new data types with multi-omics data.
  • Finding novel ways of bringing a temporal dimension to Hurdle's predictive models using state-of-the-art time series analysis methodologies.
  • Finding ways to reduce the cost of data acquisition and speed of discovery -- model performance will need to be carefully balanced with commercial drivers.
  • Contributing to embedding expert knowledge into Hurdle’s staff base.
  • Contributing to academic papers.

KEY REQUIREMENTS

Qualifications:

  • A higher degree (Master’s) in computer science, data science or AI, or bioinformatics.

Experience/Knowledge:

  • Experience of deploying state-of-the-art AI and ML techniques in an industry setting.
  • Experience of working with health-related data, particularly medical images and timeseries and biosignal processing.
  • Experience with data preprocessing, feature engineering, and statistical analysis in healthcare settings.
  • Experience of creating demos and prototypes utilizing models.
  • Experience of producing and presenting data visualisations.
  • Knowledge of cloud systems (AWS and GCP).
  • Experience of running, training, and evaluating a variety of ML models.
  • Experience of working with different biomedical signals, such as medical images and timeseries.
  • Experience working with large-scale cohorts (e.g., UK Biobank, Our Future Health, All of Us) and handling population-level biomedical data.
  • Experience with multimodal biomedical data, including MRI, CT, pathology imaging, and UK Biobank imaging modalities (MRI, DXA, fundus, OCT, ultrasound).
  • Exposure to multi-omics datasets (genomics, proteomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics).

Skills/Abilities:

  • Advanced statistical and technical skills for working with large databases.
  • Higher level programming language skills in Python.
  • Skills with technologies used for data storage, access and manipulation.
  • High-level skills in data fusion and time series techniques.
  • Knowledge of fine-tuning open-source models.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills.
  • Excellent command of written and spoken English.
  • Ability to work as an effective team member and independently as and when required.
  • Ability to manage a budget and forecast expenditure.
  • Excellent people management skills.
  • Familiarity with privacy-preserving ML techniques (e.g., federated learning, differential privacy.

LOCATION
Hurdle
Fora
20 Eastbourne Terrace
Paddington
London
W2 6LG

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