Kitware is hiring a

Healthcare Data Internship: Data Analysis and Visualization

Carrboro, United States
Internship
Team Description: 
Kitware's Medical Computing team solves complex healthcare challenges through customized software solutions. The team provides research, development, and technology integration services to research centers, universities, and companies in the medical and biomedical sectors. By joining our team you will participate in a dynamic multidisciplinary work environment with exceptionally talented computer scientists, software engineers, mechanical engineers, and biomedical engineers. 

About the Projects: 
At Kitware, we work with a variety of healthcare datasets, including clinical data (EHR, medical imaging, laboratory results, medication records, vital signs, clinical notes ), patient-generated health data (wearable device and remote patient monitoring) and research data (clinical trial and biobank data). The projects involve data management, exploration, and the integration of these multimodal data to derive actionable insights and improve patient outcomes. Our research projects involve collaborations with top research institutions, including Harvard Medical School, MIT, Cleveland Clinic, Duke University, UNC-Chapel Hill, and others, and build on open-source platforms.

About the Internship:
The planned duration of this full-time internship is 6 months, starting on or before January 2025. 

Interns who join our team collaborate with world-class coworkers and external researchers in the following ways:
- Developing predictive models to assess patient risk and outcomes
- Integrating and preprocessing large, heterogeneous datasets (e.g., EHRs, medical imaging, and patient histories) to feed into machine learning models
- Applying machine learning and statistical methods to generate predictive insights, visualize patterns, and validate the accuracy of predictions
- Interns will be encouraged to publish the results of their work in academic papers submitted to premier conferences or journals
- Interns will also be able to produce high-quality software for challenging image analysis problems and contribute to large-scale software infrastructure and open source projects

Required Qualifications:

  • Enrolled in a Master’s or Ph.D. program in computer science or a related field with the corresponding emphasis on scientific computing, machine learning
  • Proficiency in Python
  • Familiarity with high-quality software processes, such as unit and integration testing, revision control (Git), documentation, software review, and continuous integration tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD)
  • Hands-on experience with data analysis, statistical modeling, and machine learning techniques

Company Description:
Kitware is a research and development software solutions provider with a mission to advance science, make a positive impact, and share our results all within a collaborative, employee-focused work environment that is friendly, fair, and flexible. Our work is improving healthcare outcomes, increasing national security, and advancing our national computing infrastructure. Our customers and collaborators include top universities from around the world, government organizations, national research labs, medical device manufacturers, car manufacturers, financial institutions, and many others.  

Kitware is proud to be 100% employee-owned, and Great Place to Work-Certified™.  

Additional Information:
Kitware actively subscribes to a policy of equal employment opportunity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, protected veteran status, uniformed service member status, or any other characteristics protected by applicable law. 

Any unsolicited resume sent to Kitware, including to Kitware's mailing addresses, fax machines or email addresses, whether directly to Kitware employees or to Kitware's applicant tracking system, will be considered Kitware property.  Kitware will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume, and will consider any candidate submitted by a recruitment agency without a fully executed contract with Kitware to have been referred free of any charges or fees.

If you need assistance with applying or interviewing for a role due to a disability or special need, please reach out directly to our HR team at [email protected] at any time during the hiring process.  
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