Research Assistant/Associate in software engineering for Pediatric AI Clinician

Our vision is to develop our semi-autonomous AI system for saving lives in intensive care, the “AI clinician”. Our team won three prestigious research grants including the UKRI Turing AI Fellowship to Prof Aldo Faisal, Rosetrees Interdisciplinary Award, British Medical Association Foundation John Molton Award towards Dr Padmanabhant Ramnarayan, M.D. our program is funding a number of positions to grow our AI Clinician team and apply to paediatric intensive care. The AI Clinician is informed by myriads of patient records that is using Generative AI from operational data to learn optimal pharmaceutical treatment policies for critically ill patients that we pioneered (Komorowski et Faisal, 2018, Nature Medicine; Gottesmann et al, 2019, Nature Medicine). On the clinical side of the AI Clinician we are a team spanning world-leading intensive care clinicians Padmanabhan Ramnarayan (paediatric ICU) and Anthony Gordon (adult ICU) and Aldo Faisal (Director, UKRI Centre in AI For Healthcare) at Imperial College London. Our pioneering adult ICU system is now in clinical trials and being deployed in 4 intensive care units across London as a healthcare flagship in Digital Therapeutics.

This position will be embedded in our AI Clinician team spanning a vibrant group of proactive research ranging from machine learning (reinforcement learning and generative AI), explainable AI and intensive care clinicians to experts supporting the human factors, patient & stakeholder engagement that will enable us to deploy this  Digital Therapeutics  flagship program in NHS hospitals in the course of these posts.  The clinical aims of the project are to expand the expertise domain and capabilities of the AI Clinician to broaden the patient base by including paediatric intensive care units (PICUs) to help children and to broaden its action space to encompass ventilation decisions and control as well as fluid management.

You will be jointly supervised by Aldo Faisal and Padmanabhan Ramnarayan. The overall research environment is corresponding to our ambition, the Departments where our research group is based has been consistently ranked as the top Departments in the country, and Imperial College has been consistently ranked in the top-10 universities world-wide. Imperial College boasts a world-leading ecosystem of AI for Healthcare research across the breadth of both AI and Medicine, and hosts among other things the pioneering UKRI Centre in AI for Healthcare as well as the AI network, comprising over 200 faculty and 1000 Research Associates and PhD Students at Imperial that work in AI.

Research software engineering of the paediatric AI Clinician decision support systems including integration of the live data feeds of the electronic patient records. Clinical ethics and I.T. approvals are already in place and follow our successful adult AI Clinician work.

You will be developing the NHS IT interfacing that pulls live data and historical data to process it in our secure data enclave.

• Research Assistant level: An MSc or equivalent in a relevant field


• Research Associate level: A PhD or equivalent in a relevant field*


• Relevant computer science/engineering/mathematics/physics or exceptional biomedical undergraduate background


• Experience in the field of (one more multiple) Digital Healthcare, Reinforcement Learning, Machine Learning, Robotics, Computational Neuroscience, Recommender Systems Neural/Behaviour Data Analysis, Time Series Analysis, or relevant related backgrounds in control systems or Mathematics


• Strong analytical mathematical skills


• Strong programming skills


• Strong machine learning skills.


• Willingness to work in a highly dynamic & interdisciplinary team of technical, medical and


• human-centered engineering experts.

Please see job description for full list of essential requirements.

*Candidates who have not yet been officially awarded their PhD will be appointed as a Research Assistant level, salary £40,694 - £43,888 per annum

In addition to completing the online application, candidates should attach:

• A full CV
• A short statement indicating what you see are interesting issues relating to the above post and why your expertise is relevant

Informal enquiries regarding post please contact Aldo Faisal: [email protected]  

For queries regarding the application process contact Jamie Perrins: [email protected]