This position is open for candidates who reside in Korea and have a Korean proficiency appropriate for working in a Korean business.
"Conquering cancer through AI"
Lunit, a portmanteau of ‘Learning unit,’ is a medical AI software company devoted to providing AI-powered total cancer care.
Our AI solutions help discover cancer and predict cancer treatment outcomes, achieving timely and individually tailored cancer treatment.
🗨️ About the Position
We are seeking a passionate Medical Director of Pathology for our Oncology Group to lead the research and development of groundbreaking AI-powered oncology solutions. This role will oversee clinical research activities and play a crucial role in developing AI models and biomarker algorithms. The position is based in Seoul, Korea.
The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of clinical science, genuine interest in medical AI, strong problem solving and analytical thinking. If you have passion in bringing true innovation in medicine through technology, love a competitive yet rewarding environment, and enjoy collaborating with diverse groups, this is the perfect role for you.
🚩 Roles & Responsibilities
- Guide AI model development and validation
- Define well curated and structured ground truth and provide expert annotations to support the training and validation of pathology-based AI models
- Evaluate model performance based on histopathological standards and propose improvement strategies reflecting real-world diagnostic practice
- Integrate medical expertise into product development
- Ensure clinical and pathological validity in biomarker product design by aligning model outputs with diagnostic workflows
- Bridge communication between pathology, engineering, and business development teams to guide AI feature development and usage
- Lead pathology-driven clinical research
- Design and oversee clinical studies using AI-based pathology models, ensuring diagnostic accuracy and relevance to cancer biology
- Represent the pathology function in external research collaborations and contribute to publications and major conference presentations
- Contribute to strategic and scientific leadership
- Analyze digital pathology and oncology trends to inform R&D and partnership strategy
- Identify and evaluate scientific and clinical opportunities for collaboration with pharma, diagnostics, and academic partners
Requirements
🎯 Qualifications
- Pathology board-certified MD
- Experience in clinical data analysis using R, Python or other languages
- Proven track record of successfully conducting medical researches
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex scientific concepts and clinical data to diverse audiences
- Strong strategic and analytical skills, with demonstrated success in conducting medical researches
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment
- Able to communicate professionally in English (over 15% of Lunitians are not native Korean speakers, including many senior memberships and leadership positions)
- Flexibility to collaborate closely with international colleagues in different time zones
🏅 Preferred Experiences
- Pathology fellowship training, and/or more than 2 years of post-board certification experience
- Experience in leading at least 1 clinical research project as a lead role
- Major authorships of medical papers
- Deep understanding of statistics and clinical data analysis
- Direct experience in AI model development in medical field
- Knowledge of biomarkers, companion diagnostics, or immuno-oncology
- Strong communication skills in English
📝How to Apply
- CV (English, free format)
🏃♀️ Hiring Process
- Document Screening → Phone Screening → Competency-based interview → Culture-fit Interview → Onboarding
- After the final interview, we may proceed with reference checks if needed.
🤝 Work Conditions and Environment
- Work Type: Full-Time
- Work Location : Lunit HQ (5F, 374, Gangnam-daero, Gangnam-gu, Seoul)
- Salary: After Negotiation
🎸 ETC
- If you misrepresent your experience or education or provide false or fraudulent information in or with your application, it may be grounds for cancellation of the employment.
- Lunit is committed in providing the preferential processing to those eligible for employment protection (national merits and people with disabilities) relevant to related laws and regulations
Benefits
🌻 Benefits & Perks
- The office is at a very convenient location, just a minute away from Gangnam Station Exit 3.
- Meal Allowance is provided (up to 12,000 KRW per meal) when working at the office.
- Up to 300,000 KRW is covered upon joining to decorate your personal workspace.
- Latest computer models, such as Macs and 4K monitors are provided and can be renewed every three years.
- Seminar registration fees and book purchases are covered.
- Regular in-house AI and medical seminars are held.
- In-house English lessons (aka Luniversal) is provided for English development.
- Access to high-quality AI learning resources & deep learning DevOps system.
- Up to 1.2 million KRW worth of benefits points can be claimed annually.
- Holiday Allowances are provided in the form of gifts or vouchers for Korean National holidays, Seollal and Chuseok.
- Congratulatory and Condolence allowances, along with paid time off are provided.
- Annual medical checkups and employee accident insurance are provided.
- Expenses for monthly employees gatherings are partially covered.
