Novartis
Data Scientist, AI for Biomedical Imaging
$126K–$257K
Cambridge (USA) · Full-time · Posted Jul 9, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of applied experience in AI for bioimaging and computer vision.
- Education
- PhD in computer science, AI, machine learning, biomedical image analysis, computational imaging, data science, or a related quantitative field.
About the job
Develops and deploys AI-powered image analysis methods and workflows to extract biological insights from imaging data and support drug discovery.
What you'll do
- Partner with wet-lab scientists to define imaging-analysis strategies, identify valuable AI applications, and communicate methods and results.
- Develop, validate, benchmark, and deploy image-analysis algorithms for biological phenotyping across high-throughput imaging data.
- Build scalable, reusable workflows with data science, engineering, and platform teams.
What they ask for
- PhD in computer science, AI, machine learning, biomedical image analysis, computational imaging, data science, or a related quantitative field.
- 3+ years of applied experience in AI for bioimaging and computer vision.
- Demonstrated experience developing and validating image-analysis algorithms for biological, biomedical, or pharmaceutical research.
- Proficiency in Python and the scientific deep learning stack, plus experience with image-analysis tools and Linux-based HPC, cloud, or large-scale processing environments.
Nice to have
- Experience with foundation models, self-supervised or multimodal learning, or embedding-based biological image analysis.
- Familiarity with drug discovery, phenotypic screening, or pharmaceutical research processes.
Pay
$126,000 and $234,000 USD annually (base salary); $138,600 and $257,400 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Python, PyTorch, Hugging Face, Lightning, MONAI, scikit-image, OpenCV, OME-Zarr
AI focus
Applies deep learning, vision foundation models, representation learning, segmentation, classification, and multimodal integration to biomedical imaging and drug discovery.
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