Machine Learning Summer Associate, Applied AI & Research

Passionate about precision medicine and advancing the healthcare industry?

Recent advancements in underlying technology have finally made it possible for AI to impact clinical care in a meaningful way. Tempus' proprietary platform connects an entire ecosystem of real-world evidence to deliver real-time, actionable insights to physicians, providing critical information about the right treatments for the right patients, at the right time.

Tempus is seeking a highly qualified advanced-degree Machine Learning Summer Associate, Applied AI & Research,  to work with us for the summer of 2025. We are looking for people who can change the world.

Our goal is to provide you with a comprehensive overview of what it’s like to work at Tempus and the chance to have a true impact. We hope that at the end of your internship, you leave with a deeper understanding and appreciation for Tempus’ profound goals and mission;  to connect an entire ecosystem of real-world evidence to deliver real-time, actionable insights to physicians, providing critical information about the right treatments for the right patients, at the right time.

As a Summer Intern at Tempus, you will:

• Apply skills and knowledge learned in the classroom to on-the-job experiences
• Work on comprehensive, value-added project(s) that help enhance the fields of science and technology 
• Collaborate with teams/colleagues in a fast-paced environment 
• Gain professional development & build relationships with peers from across the country 

Key responsibilities:

• Work closely with senior machine learning scientists to develop, implement, and test machine learning models for NLP/Gen AI applications.
• Analyze large clinical datasets and apply ML techniques to extract meaningful insights. Participate in the creation of pipelines for data processing, model training, and evaluation.
• Assist in the development of algorithms and tools that contribute to clinical data understanding, clinical trials, and research.
• Collaborate across multidisciplinary teams, including ML scientists, products, and engineers, to translate research into practical solutions.

Anticipated Summer Project(s):

• Project #1: This project focuses on building a patient-specific knowledge graph to represent and continually update clinical timelines, leveraging large language models (LLMs) for both relationship extraction and graph traversal. You will design and implement a prototype that ingests unstructured notes and structured EHR data, compares graph-based timelines against direct summarization, and explores incremental approaches to keep these graphs current. By the end of the internship, you’ll demonstrate how LLMs can enrich the discovery and querying of patient data in a single, dynamically updated knowledge graph.
• Project #2: This project aims to leverage the complementary strengths of traditional NLP and LLMs to retrieve and synthesize key medical information from multimodal clinical datasets with high degrees of accuracy. The core objective is to develop an integrated ensemble system capable of efficiently processing and extracting actionable insights from a diverse range of clinical data including unstructured text, images, structured tabular data, Eand HRs.

Qualifications:

• Pursuing a Master’s or Ph.D. (advanced degree graduation between winter of 2025 and summer of 2026) in Computer Science, Data Science, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology or a related field.
• A strong academic background with relevant coursework in machine learning, artificial intelligence, statistics, algorithms, and data analysis.
• Proficiency in programming languages like Python, experience with machine learning frameworks and libraries, and familiarity with common tools for data processing and analysis.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in a variety of settings and media.
• A self-starter with the ability to work independently as well as in collaboration with others in a fast-paced environment is critical. Be ready to fly the plane as you’re still building it!

Additional Details:

• You will spend 8 or 10 weeks working in our Chicago office. The internship will be a hybrid, onsite 3 days/week with the option to work remotely the remaining days.
• The program will start in early June and run through August.
• A competitive hourly wage will be provided for the summer employment and a relocation bonus to help offset some of the relocation costs and resources to help you find housing.

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The expected salary range below is applicable if the role is performed from [Illinois] and may vary for other locations. Actual salary may vary based on qualifications and experience. Tempus offers a full range of benefits, which may include incentive compensation, restricted stock units, medical and other benefits, depending on the position.

Illinois Pay Range$35—$35 USD

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

 

Additionally, for remote roles open to individuals in unincorporated Los Angeles – including remote roles- Tempus reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment: engaging positively with customers and other employees; accessing confidential information, including intellectual property, trade secrets, and protected health information; and appropriately handling such information in accordance with legal and ethical standards. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.