Research Software Engineer in AI and Health

at  Universiteit van Amsterdam

Research Software Engineer in AI and Health
Faculteit/Dienst: Faculteit der Natuurw., Wiskunde & Informatica
Opleidingsniveau: Master
Functie type: Wetenschappelijk Personeel
Sluitingsdatum: 27 mei 2024
Vacaturenummer: 12917
Are you challenged by creating robust software that can bring AI solutions to clinical practice? The Quantitative Healthcare Analysis (qurAI) group at the Informatics Institute (IvI) is looking for an ambitious research software engineer to join our growing team.

ABOUT US

The University of Amsterdam (UvA) is the Netherlands’ largest university, offering the widest range of academic programmes. At the UvA, 42,000 students, 6,000 staff members and 3,000 PhD candidates study and work in a diverse range of fields, connected by a culture of curiosity.
The Faculty of Science (FNWI) has a student body of around 8,000, as well as 1,800 members of staff working in education, research or support services. Researchers and students at the Faculty of Science are fascinated by every aspect of how the world works, be it elementary particles, the birth of the universe or the functioning of the brain.
The mission of the Informatics Institute (IvI) is to perform curiosity-driven and use-inspired fundamental research in Computer Science. The main research themes are Artificial Intelligence, Computational Science and Systems and Network Engineering. Our research involves complex information systems at large, with a focus on collaborative, data driven, computational and intelligent systems, all with a strong interactive component.
The Quantitative Healthcare Analysis (qurAI) is an interfaculty group embedded in the Faculties of Medicine (Department of Biomedical Engineering and Physics - BMEP) and Science (Institute of Informatics -IvI) of the University of Amsterdam, with strong ties with clinical department at the Amsterdam University Medical Centers (Amsterdam UMCs) as well as close collaborations with parties as the Netherlands Cancer Institute. In qurAI we focus on the development and clinical implementation of socially responsible AI innovations in healthcare, so as to become an indispensable part of the Amsterdam ecosystem in the field of AI and healthcare.

In this position you are expected to work closely with researchers to develop infrastructure and applications to support their projects. In a collaboration with Radboud University Medical Center and Amazon Web Services we have developed an open-source MLOps platform for medical imaging, https://grand-challenge.org, that is deployed on public cloud and on premises. Your role at qurAI will be to further integrate this platform with the hospitals systems, and further develop it to meet the requirements of the qurAI researchers. In this position, you will be responsible for leading the local development and managing the full lifecycle of the Grand-Challenge platform as well as specific clinically-oriented workstations.
This includes understanding user needs, creating requirements, developing the workstations, integrating research algorithms, automating tests, writing documentation, releasing, and supporting users. You will be also responsible to coordinate and co-supervise the software engineering work in both locations, Amsterdam and Nijmegen, as well as supporting qurAI researchers and coordinating part-time effort of these researchers in the platform. You will be supervised by Clarisa Sanchez (UvA) and James Meakin (RadboudUMC).
Additionally, you will perform as ICT contact person and data steward within the Institute for a small percentage (10%) of your time. ICT contact persons form the bridge between the ICTS and groups within IvI in relation to services that we take from ICTS and is responsible for hardware inventory management. As a data steward, you will assist researchers in their assigned group in data management planning, data storage, and data reposition; and monitor the quantity and quality of research data management in the assigned groups.