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Microsoft UK • Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cambridge Residency Programme: Postdoctoral Researcher – Multimodal Deep Learning for Healthcare

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83%

Location flexibility

81%

Hours flexibility

79%

Autonomy

Job Description

Microsoft Research Health Futures conducts world-class research at the intersection of AI and healthcare, drawing on deep expertise in signal processing, biomedical imaging and deep learning. We are seeking a motivated postdoctoral researcher to join our vibrant team of researchers and engineers.

We focus on the development of models that can process raw medical instrument signals and improve diagnostic measurements and biomarker extraction. As a postdoctoral researcher within our team, you will have the opportunity to:

  • Deepen your expertise in biomedical image reconstruction and AI.
  • Explore multi-modal models for digital signal processing.
  • Conduct experimentation with world-class computational resources.

Grow in a team with a strong culture of collaboration and rigorous research.

Responsibilities

The ideal candidate will have strong intellectual curiosity and passion to solve real-world problems in healthcare using machine learning. Responsibilities will include:

  • Design, implement, evaluate and deploy new machine learning methods and models.
  • Share your research with the broader research community through publication or open sourcing.
  • Collaborate with clinical experts and across Microsoft Research.

Work as part of a team to advance our ambitious research agenda.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

  • PhD degree (or on-track to complete), or equivalent expertise in independent research, in areas such as computer science (e.g. machine learning, deep learning, signal processing), electrical engineering, computational biology, medicine.
  • Prior experience with deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch) and software engineering practices (e.g. git).
  • Passion for healthcare and medicine.
  • Ability to work and learn in a collaborative and diverse environment.

Preferred/Additional Qualifications:

  • Expertise in any of the following topics:
    • Experience with digital signal processing and/or medical image reconstruction.
    • Design and evaluation of large multimodal transformers.
    • Biomarker discovery (broadly interpreted).
  • Experience with real-world healthcare data
  • Track record of publication in top conferences or journals, such as: NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, EMNLP, Nature (and affiliated, e.g. NPJ Digital Health), JAMA, Radiology AI, Lancet Digital Health etc.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

Company benefits

Wellbeing allowance
Health insurance
Dental coverage
Gym membership
Mental health platform access
Buy or sell annual leave
Shared parental leave
Charity donation scheme
Employee assistance programme
Employee discounts
Volunteer days
Fertility treatment leave
Open to compressed hours
Open to job sharing
Fertility benefits
Enhanced sick pay
Enhanced sick days
Compassionate leave
Travel insurance
20 days annual leave + bank holidays
Enhanced maternity leave
Enhanced paternity leave
Adoption leave
Childcare credits
Carer’s leave
Cycle to work scheme
Faith rooms
Annual bonus
Annual pay rises
Company car
Hackathons
Open to part-time employees
Pregnancy loss leave
Life insurance
Equity packages
Financial coaching
Relocation packages
Sabbaticals
Enhanced pension match/contribution

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Location flexibility
83%
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Hours flexibility
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Employees are very happy with the flexibility in the hours they work
Benefits
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Employees are largely happy with the benefits their company offers
Work-life balance
63%
Employees feel that they can switch off quite easily from work
Role modelling
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Employees feel that most people work flexibly
Autonomy
79%
Employees feel that they can mostly manage how they get their own work done

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