AI Intern - Global Clinical & Medical Affairs (Andover, MA)

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Smith+Nephew, a pioneering leader in medical technology since 1856, is seeking an Intern – AI for Global Clinical Medical Affairs. As part of the Global Data Analytics department, the successful candidate will be a passionate learner with an innovative mindset, looking to explore how to apply AI/ML and data science technologies to cutting edge clinical research.

The ideal candidate will have a strong foundation in data science and deploying AI/ML solutions for real-world problems. The role comes with broad opportunities for learning and to make an impact, and tight collaboration with experts in biostatistics, data science, AI/ML, data management, and clinical operations.

What will you be doing?

Develop and Apply AI to Solve Real Problems:

• Collaborate with clinical research experts to identify and deploy use cases for AI in clinical affairs

• Assist in developing AI/ML models for supporting clinical operations, and data analysis

• Preprocess, clean, and organize clinical datasets to train and support AI/ML applications

• Support the integration of AI tools into clinical research workflows

Quality Control and Communication:

• Identify key performance indicators for AI models and evaluate performance in uses cases with a global span

• Document methodologies, workflows, and results to ensure reproducibility and transparency

• Present findings and recommendations to the team and stakeholders clearly and concisely

Advanced Data Analytics & Cloud Data Management:

• Work with the clinical data team to link together and leverage thousands of clinical datasets within a cloud infrastructure, to support AI/ML

What will you need to be successful?

• Education:

  • Enrolled in a bachelor's, master’s, or PhD degree in a relevant field (i.e. Data Science, Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Computer Engineering).

• Experience: 

  • Previous applicable intern, co-op, part-time or apprenticeship experience is preferred

  • Previous Exposure to clinical research, medical device development, or health care analytics preferred.

  • Academic knowledge across traditional machine learning, neural networks, and (of course) large language models preferred.

  • Knowledge of wrangling complex datasets using various cloud tools (AWS, Databricks) preferred

• Proficiency in Python is required, and R is a plus

• Familiarity with common AI/ML frameworks, e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, and LLM’s

• Familiarity with version control systems, particularly Git

• Foundational knowledge of statistics is a plus

• Familiarity with business intelligence tools such as PowerBI, Spotfire, Tableau is a plus

• Familiarity with cloud technologies such as Amazon AWS and Databricks

• Experience in creating and deploying AI/ML models for production use

• A knack for innovation and a passion for leveraging technology to solve complex business problems

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Other reasons why you will love it here!

• Training: Hands-On, Team-Customized, Mentorship

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