Biomedical Research Scientist, Health and Wellbeing

The Meta Health and Wellbeing team is seeking a biomedical research scientist who will report to the Manager of Health and Wellbeing Research and work alongside other members at the Health and Wellbeing team, aimed at improving health outcomes throughout the world. In this role, you will work in and closely with interdisciplinary teams to plan and execute research of novel digital approaches to measuring and improving health and wellness.Biomedical Research Scientist, Health and Wellbeing Responsibilities

• Work with biomedical sensors and systems to collect and analyze physiological data (specifically, time series multimodal data) for characterizing health and wellness applications
• Develop and implement signal processing, data analysis, and data visualization using keen understanding of physiology, physical systems and statistics
• Develop methods and standard operating procedures involving lab instrumentation and prototype bring up for data collection in order to test features, algorithms or models.
• Use a variety of advanced statistical software, methods, and techniques to gather, analyze, and interpret research data to derive useful information
• advises and assists in the development of inferences and conclusions, as appropriate.
• Design and execute studies with engineering test protocol and report to validate algorithms for biomedical applications

Minimum Qualifications

• Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Degree must be completed prior to joining Meta.
• Master’s or Ph.D. in biomedical engineering or equivalent, with relevant coursework and experience in signal processing, sensor development, and experimentation is required.
• 3+ years of experience using in depth subject-matter knowledge in execution and reporting of results of digital health research projects
• Experience coding in python and software requirements
• Experience in biomedical sensors and physiological signals, in both development and validation
• Experience working in multidisciplinary research and/or product development teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of human physiology and prior research experience in the field of health is highly desired
• Direct industrial experience in consumer/digital health and well-being product development and/or research, with demonstration of success working within and across multi-disciplinary teams (for example, project/product managers, software engineers, research scientists, machine learning data scientists).
• Experience in PyTorch, Numpy and Pandas
• Experience in developing specialized software tools for biomedical measurement data.
• Familiar with data pipeline and data investigations

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117.000 $/year to 173.000 $/year + bonus + equity + benefits

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