SyncVR Medical is the leading Extended Reality (XR) platform in European healthcare, active in 200+ hospitals across 7 countries. We are selected by a big hospital chain to build a prediction model on actual medical data. This role is a unique opportunity to build a life-saving AI engine using the world’s most valuable clinical datasets.
Tasks
Every year, thousands of patients receive unnecessary pharmaceutical sedation for minor procedures, leading to high costs and long recovery times. You will help us build a Predictive Risk Engine that identifies which patients are candidates for "Immersive Care" (XR distraction) instead of drugs (see this video).
You will work directly with our CEO to:
- Mine Unstructured Data: Use NLP (ClinicalBERT / BioBERT) to extract anxiety markers and procedural indicators from thousands of anonymized clinical notes.
- Feature Engineering: Clean and join complex longitudinal datasets including medication dosages (Infusion tables), vitals (Flowsheets), and recovery timestamps.
- Build the Model: Develop and validate an XGBoost classification model to output an "XR Suitability Score" with a target AUC-ROC of >0.75.
Requirements
What We Are Looking For
- Education: Final year Master’s student or PhD candidate in Data Science, AI, Medical Informatics, or Applied Math.
- Python Mastery: Expert-level knowledge of the Python data stack (Pandas, Scikit-learn, XGBoost).
- NLP Experience: Hands-on experience with the HuggingFace library and transformer models.
- SQL Skills: Ability to navigate and join massive relational databases (BigQuery/SQL Server).Mindset: You are a "builder" who is comfortable with the ambiguity of clinical data and the fast pace of a scale-up environment.
Benefits
- Prestige: Direct involvement in a global hospital validation project (a massive career booster).
- Impact: Your code will directly influence how one of the world's top hospitals delivers care.
- Mentorship: Direct contact with our CEO. (NB: no other data scientist though - show independence!).
- Growth: High potential for either a permanent role or a position at a similar company following a successful internship!Location: Remote (2x/week online video call with CEO in USA)
- Compensation: you primarily do this internship to learn being in a role full of freedom and responsibility - not for earning a high internship salary. Realize that after completing this project, you will have the best CV booster you can wish for.
Join SyncVR Medical and Shape the Future of Healthcare