Team Description:
Kitware's Medical Computing team tackles complex healthcare challenges by developing cutting-edge software solutions tailored to the medical and biomedical sectors. We provide research, development, and technology integration services to top-tier research centers, universities, and companies. Joining our team means immersing yourself in a dynamic, multidisciplinary environment alongside exceptionally talented professionals, including 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 Role:
As a Software Engineer with Healthcare Data Science experience, you will contribute to developing and implementing robust healthcare research software systems, leveraging your technical expertise in data science, machine learning, and visualization. You will play an integral role in managing and analyzing complex healthcare datasets, designing predictive models, and contributing to creating data-driven healthcare applications. Your work will directly impact the development of next-generation medical software and tools.
In This Position You Will:
- Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to design and implement healthcare data solutions
- Develop, test, and deploy machine learning models and algorithms on healthcare datasets
- Build scalable data pipelines to manage and process large volumes of healthcare data
- Develop visualizations to present complex data insights to medical professionals and researchers
- Work with open-source platforms to create innovative healthcare applications
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree by January 2025 in computer science or a related field emphasizing data science
- Experience working with healthcare data (e.g., EHR, imaging, or clinical trial data)
- Outstanding skills in Python
- Hands-on experience with data analysis, statistical modeling, and machine learning techniques
- Mastery-level knowledge of Python data visualization and analysis libraries (e.g., Matplotlib, Seaborn, SciPy, scikit-learn, or Pandas)
- Strong understanding of data management and processing, particularly with large datasets
- Experience with agile development methodologies and version control systems (e.g., Git)
- Due to contractual restrictions, only candidates who are US Persons (citizens, permanent residents, asylees, or refugees) will be considered for this position
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Kitware’s open-source platforms such as VTK, ITK, or 3D Slicer
- Experience with cloud application development
- Knowledge of healthcare standards and regulations (e.g., HIPAA, HL7, DICOM)
- Familiarity with cloud computing and deploying healthcare applications on cloud platforms.
- Knowledge of deep learning frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch) and their application in healthcare
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:
Our team members enjoy a small company environment, flexibility in work assignments, and high levels of independence and responsibility. Besides a great work environment, our comprehensive benefits package includes a competitive compensation plan, tuition reimbursement program, flexible working hours, six weeks paid time off, 401(k), health insurance, life insurance, short- and long-term disability insurance, bonus plan, and free coffee, drinks, and snacks.
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.
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