Clinical Scientist

Key Skills

Aartificial intelligence, Biomedical Imaging, C++, Data science techniques, Effective communication skills, Java Programming, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Python Programming, US Healthcare Recruitment, Writing

Job Description

​​Pangaea Data (Pangaea) is a South San Francisco and London based business founded by Dr Vibhor Gupta and Prof Yike Guo (Director Data Science Institute at Imperial College London; Provost, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). They have worked in medicine and computing for over 20 years and have raised over $300 million through their academic research, including a recent $110 million grant focused on development work on large language models in medicine. Pangaea’s product platform enables financially sustainable and scalable collaborations between the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries to help find more undiagnosed and miscoded patients across 7,000 hard-to-diagnose conditions. Pangaea’s advisors include industry veterans from healthcare and the life sciences, including Lord David Prior (former chairman, NHS England) and Mr. Andy Palmer (former CIO, Novartis). Pangaea was recognized as ‘Digital Solution of the Year’ 2023 by the UK government and awarded top tier co-sell partnership status by Microsoft, which is exclusive to only 25 of the 30,000 companies Microsoft works with globally.

Role Description And Responsibilities

As a Clinical Scientist, you will closely collaborate with other colleagues to support algorithm design hence knowledge in life science and biomedicine is critical. In addition, some knowledge of NLP and AI will help you understand the product better.

Key Responsibilities:

Technical Responsibilities:

• Understand the clients in life science (such as biopharmaceutical companies and healthcare providers) they engage with and the problems, pain points and requests they are seeing.
• Analyse clinical/biomedical data from clients and partners for insights to support NLP algorithms design.
• Analyse outputs of algorithms and products with feedback to improve the validity, interpretability and generalisability of algorithms and products.
• Design and develop internal tools to automate collection of clinical feedback for algorithms and products.
• Communicate with internal stakeholders (such as the technical team, senior clinical advisors, and marketing team) about clinical objectives, algorithm design and clinical feedback.
• Run early rounds of internal feedback gathering, before we launch to users.
• Understand the high-level company vision and goals, and make sure these are reflected in ongoing algorithm design, clinical feedback collection, and client communication.

Mandatory Requirements

Technical Skills:

• Medical degree is required.
• Clinical experience is highly preferred.
• Strong writing and communication skills.

Personal Traits:

• A strong intuition for what makes products a joy to use.
• Empathy for how different users will need different things out of a product at different stages, and how to effectively serve these different needs in one product.
• Strong communication and mediation skills.
• Strong people skills and the ability to engage all levels of the organization (especially the front line).
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
• Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively, both verbally and in writing, in English.
• A strong background with expertise in Life Science, Medicine or Biomedicine to support the transformation of client requirements to algorithm design. ​

Nice to Have:

• Relevant work experience, including internships, full time industry/academia experience.
• Experience (classroom/room) on general programming languages: Python, C++, Java, etc.
• Experience with research communities and/or efforts, including having published papers (being listed as author) at biomedical conferences and journals.

Application Contact Information

This position will be highly visible to senior management within our company and at our customer organisations.

Please send your latest resume along with a cover letter to careers@pangaeadata.ai.

Your application should be in English and include a cover letter highlighting your experiences with IT companies, biopharmaceutical companies, healthcare organisations, and research institutions along with your CV.

Perks And Benefits

• Flexible working hours.
• Salary dependent on experience.
• Benefits include private medical insurance, life insurance and travel cards.
• You would join a small, dedicated and fast-growing team.
• You will have the opportunity to learn about building a startup business from experienced professionals and serial entrepreneurs.
• We are currently supported by serial entrepreneurs and angel investors. You will have the opportunity to experience an investment life cycle for a startup and meet leading venture capitalists.
• We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. ​

General Information

Pangaea Data’s headquarters is in London (UK) with teams in San Francisco (US) and Hong Kong. For more information, please visit www.pangaeadata.ai.

Pangaea Data is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, protected veteran status, protected genetic information, political affiliation, or any other characteristics protected by local laws, regulations, or ordinances.