The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine (HJF) @ Naval Medical Center San Diego | Data Scientist/Software Engineer/Program Manager | San Diego | REMOTE, ONSITE, US Citizen | Full-time
We are teaching machines to diagnose cancer in a collaborative research and development environment. You will be a direct report to the project lead, developing a broad codebase (NLP, NNs, bioinformatics, digital archaeology). Typical candidates that make it past the first interview have a technical PhD or hard STEM masters. Linear algebra is a prerequisite. At least 3-4 years writing code strongly recommended.
Collaborators include commercial, DoD, and other government entities. Project is based in San Diego but designed to accommodate remote work from the ground up.
Culturally, you will be expected to reduce highly ambiguous problems for yourself and others, including asking for help, often in domains you haven’t dealt with before, e.g. clinical trials, legally binding privacy requirements, and highly invasive security and compliance. Finally, this is a small group inside a huge organization. Long term, global, strategic thinking, excellent teamwork, and exemplary personal conduct are essential.
On-site locations are teaching hospitals. You will ride the elevator with the patients you’re trying to help: active duty military, veterans, and their families.
> if I have major surgery, I will only be out a couple thousand
I'll tell that to my buddy who is a general contractor. He put off major ankle trauma surgery for 6 weeks until his insurance kicked in. The alternative was $40,000 out-of-pocket.
Sounds like you really don't like the single-payer system. Let me recommend Paul Starr's "Social Transformation of American Medicine". I'm pretty sure he hates the system more than you do, but his book walks through the history of how we got here while other countries got to other outcomes. It becomes undeniably obvious that opinions like yours were manufactured by agents of the political parties and the medical industry without your realization.
As a skeptical small business owner, I really encourage you to get some more facts, do a lot of homework. Go read that book. Because this system will bankrupt you. It has bankrupted major American corporations. You alone, as busy as you are, cannot win against millions of smart people who have a century of law and public signalling to have crafted the information environment that created the system of thought in your brain right now.
Strunk and White. I put my email and phone number in the inside cover. Only for good friends. Have gotten contacts from people I haven't seen in 10 years.
This story hit me pretty hard. While I was in medical school, my wife's family, especially her mother, routinely encouraged her to divorce me.
We had two small kids, and I had gone on job interviews and seen the offers I was getting without a graduate degree, despite a BS in physics and 7 years of experience. It was obvious to everyone that medical school was the right course of action in the long term but it would be hard.
I didn't realize it would get harder when her family started jumping on any opportunity to point out my "temporary financial embarrassment". On a day-to-day basis, she was working 40 hours a week and while med school was paid for, and I had a small stipend, her paycheck was better. And cognitively, she understood that. But her brothers and mother, and eventually her father told her to "get rid of him".
We stuck it out. They wonder why we don't fly across country to visit them much...
Would you be willing to let someone just participate? I have multiple lines of research and my physics background allows me to reach further into biology and computation than most biology types. And for a variety of reasons I don't quite have the same funding problems most people have, but I would really like to work with the groups you are able to put together. I would be happy to fill out the same application.
Your log files should be able to unmask me but for additional reasons I'd rather not publicly associate my claims above with my identity.
We are teaching machines to diagnose cancer in a collaborative research and development environment. You will be a direct report to the project lead, developing a broad codebase (NLP, NNs, bioinformatics, digital archaeology). Typical candidates that make it past the first interview have a technical PhD or hard STEM masters. Linear algebra is a prerequisite. At least 3-4 years writing code strongly recommended.
Collaborators include commercial, DoD, and other government entities. Project is based in San Diego but designed to accommodate remote work from the ground up.
Culturally, you will be expected to reduce highly ambiguous problems for yourself and others, including asking for help, often in domains you haven’t dealt with before, e.g. clinical trials, legally binding privacy requirements, and highly invasive security and compliance. Finally, this is a small group inside a huge organization. Long term, global, strategic thinking, excellent teamwork, and exemplary personal conduct are essential.
On-site locations are teaching hospitals. You will ride the elevator with the patients you’re trying to help: active duty military, veterans, and their families.
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