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Software Engineer in deep learning for medical imaging AI

Employer
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Location
London (Greater) (GB)
Salary
£45,259 to £53,355 per annum
Closing date
21 Jun 2019

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This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic software engineer with knowledge in deep learning to join the Wellcome/EPSRC Centre for Medical Engineering (CME) within an internationally leading university research School. The post-holder will be supporting researchers to develop and implement novel algorithms and pipelines for medical image processing using deep-learning and related AI approaches. The successful applicant will also be helping to promote coding best practice amongst researchers within the School and will take an active role in promoting open-source software supported by the School.

The aim of this post is to further develop the School’s flagship open-source deep learning platform: NiftyNet, a python package built as a TensorFlow-based framework and dedicated to medical imaging. This package is used by many users both within the School and externally. Beyond the CME, NiftyNet is also a key component of the software strategy for the newly funded London Medical Imaging & Artificial Intelligence Centre for Value-Based Healthcare, where it will enable, in partnership with NVIDIA and other collaborators, the deployment of deep learning techniques within hospital environments. The successful applicant will lead on refactoring and optimisation activities and will develop novel functionalities within the framework. The post-holder will also be actively collaborating with researchers to raise the quality of their implementation up to the expected standard for dissemination and technology transfer. The software engineer will work closely with other developers within the School to develop a modular software architecture in which the deep learning platform will work in synergy with other applications.

The successful candidate will have a graduate degree in computer science or a closely related field. They will be able to demonstrate good algorithmic and software development skills. They will also be able to demonstrate strong experience of TensorFlow or related libraries.

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King's College London is one of the top 20 universities in the world and among the oldest in England. King's has more than 27,600 students (of whom nearly 10,500 are graduate students) from some 150 countries worldwide, and some 6,800 staff.

King's has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) King’s was ranked 6th nationally in the ‘power’ ranking, which takes into account both the quality and quantity of research activity, and 7th for quality according to Times Higher Education rankings. Eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*). The university is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of more than £684 million.

King's has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, the sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine, nursing and dentistry) and social sciences including international affairs. It has played a major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA and research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar.

King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts are part of King's Health Partners. King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering global collaboration between one of the world's leading research-led universities and three of London's most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, including leading teaching hospitals and comprehensive mental health services. For more information, visit: www.kingshealthpartners.org.

King’s £600 million campaign, World questions|KING’s answers, has delivered huge global impact in areas where King’s has particular expertise. Philanthropic support has funded new research to save young lives at Evelina London Children’s Hospital; established the King’s Dickson Poon School of Law as a worldwide leader in transnational law; built a new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital; allowed unique collaboration between leading neuroscientists to fast-track new treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, motor neurone disease, depression and schizophrenia at the new Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute; created the Cicely Saunders Institute: the first academic institution in the world dedicated to palliative care, and supported the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership in the Ebola crisis. Donations provide over 300 of the most promising students with scholarships and bursaries each year. More information about the campaign is available at www.kcl.ac.uk/kingsanswers.

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