We are offering two exciting positions as AI Engineer at the University of Barcelona, within the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine lab (www.bcn-aim.org). The selected candidate will join the RadioVal Project, an international EU-funded initiative focused on validating AI models for predicting treatment response in breast cancer. This position involves developing and optimizing radiomics-based AI tools to enhance clinical decision-making, reduce overtreatment, and improve patient outcomes.

We offer:

• A dynamic position in beautiful Barcelona and its Mediterranean climate.
• Research experience within a prestigious university (1st position in Spain).
• Cutting-edge research in AI for healthcare in one of the most dynamic research groups in Europe (10 active projects including an ERC grant).
• An international research environment with a multi-cultural team representing all continents.
• Opportunities to collaborate with international and interdisciplinary collaborators as part of the European projects.
• Travelling opportunities to scientific events, project meetings and international stays.
• Flexible working hours, with possibility to telework.

The requirements for the position are:

• Degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Biomedical Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience in AI and machine learning applied to medical imaging.
• Proficiency in Python and/or C++ for AI development and data analysis
• Good communication skills and ability to work in an interdisciplinary research environment.
• Enthusiasm about research and medical applications of AI. 
• Aptitude to work independently and meet deadlines.
• Good team spirit and participation to the lab’s scientific life.

• Aptitude to collaborate with local and international project partners (including technical and clinical collaborators).

  Key responsibilities:

• Development of artificial intelligence algorithms applied to medical images and other health data.
• Development of application programming interfaces (APIs).
• Generation of documentation and user manuals for the developed tools.

• Creative application of previous experience in artificial intelligence for the development of prototypes aimed at providing real solutions for various research projects.

  The research projects:

  You will join our oncology team as part of ongoing projects such as Radioval and EucanImage, funded by the European Commission. RadioVal is the first multi-centre, multi-continental and multi-faceted clinical validation of radiomics-driven estimation of NAC response in breast cancer. The project builds on the repositories, tools and results of five EU-funded projects from the AI for Health Imaging (AI4HI) Network, including a large multi-centre cancer imaging dataset on NAC treatment in breast cancer. Additionally, this new EU-funded project will develop a comprehensive and standardised methodological framework for multi-faceted radiomics evaluation based on the FUTURE-AI Guidelines, to assess Fairness, Universality, Traceability, Usability, Robustness and Explainability. Furthermore, the project will introduce new tools to enable transparent.

  The Group:

  The successful candidate will join the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Lab (www.bcn-aim.org), which is an integral part of the University of Barcelona’s Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science. It is a young and dynamic research lab, highly active in international projects, and composed of >20 enthusiastic academics, researchers, students and research managers, with expertise in data science, machine/deep learning, biomedical informatics, biomedical ethics, and health-related applications. The research team has an established track record in coordination and participation in national, European and international projects in biomedical data science and medical AI (e.g. EuCanImage, LongITools, HealthyCloud, RadioVal, DataTools4Heart, Youth-GEMs, HappyMums, AIMIX, AI4HF). 

  The Institution:

The University of Barcelona (UB), founded in 1450, is one of the oldest universities in Spain. It comprises a student body of 84,370 and 4,548 research staff members. With 73 undergraduate programs, 273 graduate programs and 48 doctorate programs, UB is the largest university in Barcelona and Catalonia. The UB is ranked the first Spanish university according to several rankings (QS World University Rankings 2018, ARWU/Shanghai Ranking 2018). It is particularly interested in fostering international relations and, for many years, has managed an average of 150 European projects per year. Since January 2010, Universitat de Barcelona is part of the prestigious League of European Universities Research (LERU).

Gross salary per year: 28.753,01 €.