Computing Lead Opportunity(PhD) – Urology – AI + Cancer Research -academic appoint possible
Job Description
AI + Cancer Research | Computing Lead Opportunity
Cleveland Clinic Department of Urology (Academic Appointment Available)
Join a cutting-edge, well published and established AI research team known for creating international AI challenges such as KITS and Knight.
This role is for people who want their work to change patient care, not just optimize products.
We’re seeking a Computing lead for our AIM-HI lab (Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Health Informatics) to lead translational AI projects in clinical urology and cancer research—owning the full lifecycle of real-world clinical AI systems: development, validation, deployment, and post-deployment monitoring.
This is not a proof-of-concept role. Your models will be used by clinicians, evaluated against clinical gold standards, published in top journals, and deployed where decisions truly matter.
What you’ll do
- Lead end-to-end AI projects applied to real clinical problems
- Build robust ML pipelines in Python
- Collaborate directly with clinicians and researchers
- Publish and present at major scientific conferences
- Mentor students and medical trainees
- Help define how AI is responsibly used in medicine
Who we’re looking for
- PhD: in CS, Biomedical Engineering, or related field
- Experience: Strong Python + ML experience
- Track record of peer-reviewed publications
- Bonus: computer vision, LLMs, medical imaging, HPC/cloud, biostatistics
Why this role
- Your work reaches patients
- Your contributions are visible, published, and durable
- You help shape the future of AI in healthcare
- Potential academic appointment: (Assistant - Full Professor)
- Salary: negotiable according to experience
If you want your AI work to mean something—to patients, to science, and to society—we’d love to talk.
The Urology department is one of the largest in the world and recognized for excellence in patient care, teaching, and research.