2025 Summer Intern, Digital Health Research Intern

Lab Summary:

Samsung Research America Digital Health Team (https://www.sra.samsung.com/digital-health/) collaborates with top hospitals, healthcare-industry partners, and universities to transform how healthcare is delivered and good health sustained. We use design thinking to address some of healthcare’s toughest challenges, from improving care and producing better outcomes, to reducing costs and expanding access. 

Focusing on wearable, mobile, and cloud-based form factors, our multi-disciplinary team develops innovative technologies that we then turn into groundbreaking commercial products to support clinicians, patients, and consumers. We use advanced sensor technology to capture physiologic responses and make use of our AI/ML framework to build algorithms that detect and trigger alerts for specific health conditions. We employ data analytics to supplement clinical care and facilitate remote patient monitoring, thereby helping patients make behavioral changes that improve their health and daily lives. 

Our portfolio of digital health solutions are important tools in helping clinicians and their patients monitor and manage serious health conditions, such as cardiovascular disease, pulmonary disease, and cancer; as wells chronic illnesses including mental health, diabetes, hypertension, depression, sleep disorders, and obesity. Our work encompasses the entire range of processes, from ideating, developing, and incubating; to designing and delivering market-ready products; to supporting and evolving currently released products.

Position Summary:

We are looking for a student with solid ML/AI technology background and digital health-related research project experiences in health data analytics, physiological signal processing, and multi-modal mobile sensing algorithm development. By leveraging smartphones, wearables, and hearables in health/wellness domain, your work will significantly benefit real-world consumers, patients, the elderly, physicians, and caregivers.

Samsung’s unique advantage in the consumer electronics market and growing focus on digital health will provide you with unprecedented large data sets and healthcare analytics challenges.

Position Responsibilities:

• You will work with an experienced biomarker research team to develop novel and disruptive algorithms towards digital health services and solutions.
• Design, implement, and optimize advanced AI models, including self-supervised learning, for health applications.
• Work with large-scale time-series datasets to train and fine-tune ML/DL models using AWS AI services, ensuring scalability and efficiency.
• Contribute to the development of novel AI methodologies to address complex healthcare challenges.

Required Skills:

• Student currently pursuing PhD degree in computer science, electrical engineering, biomedical engineering or related areas
• Solid coding skills with prototyping experience in data science and machine learning
• Experience in signal processing, time-series data analytics, digital health domain
• Strong knowledge and experience in developing AI/ML foundation models and their finetuning approaches
• Programming using languages such as Python, R, C/C++, Java, Android
• Experience with cloud infra services like AWS, GCP, SageMaker, SQL
• Good communication/presentation skills and teamwork/collaboration spirit

Our total rewards programs are designed to motivate and engage exceptional talent. The hourly pay rate range for roles at this level is listed below, but may be higher or lower in other states due to geographic differentials in the labor market. Within the hourly pay rate range, individual rates depend on a number of factors—including the role’s function and location as well as the individual’s knowledge, skills, experience, education and training. This is part of our comprehensive compensation package with annual bonus eligibility and generous benefits to help you live life well.Hourly Pay Rate Range$48—$63 USD

Additional Information

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Essential Job Functions

This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, and frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

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