BDC Post-Doc Research Associate

University of North Carolina

  • Chapel Hill, NC
  • Temporary
  • Full-time
  • 30 days ago
The Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) at UNC Chapel Hill is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to contribute to innovative projects within the NIH BioData Catalyst (BDC) ecosystem a cloud-based platform that provides secure access to biomedical data, analytic tools, and collaborative workspaces. This position offers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge initiatives aimed at improving how researchers interact with complex data and analysis workflows.Potential project areas include developing semantic search capabilities to help users efficiently locate relevant datasets, designing natural language interfaces for more intuitive navigation of the BDC environment, creating BDC-specific foundation models, and enabling large language models (LLM) and machine learning-based workflows within the platform. The role may also involve advancing harmonization techniques to improve data interoperability and usability across the ecosystem. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to high-impact, translational research infrastructure at the intersection of biomedical informatics, cloud computing, and AI.
Minimum Education and Experience RequirementsPh.D. in Bioinformatics, Biomedical Informatics, Computer Science, or a related field.
Required Qualifications, Competencies, and ExperienceExperience deploying and working with LLMs
Agentic workflows and retrieval augmented generation (RAG)
Prompt engineering experience
Developing, training, and testing machine learning (ML) models
Software engineering expertise
Preferred Qualifications, Competencies, and ExperienceExperience with biomedical data, including clinical, EHR, omics, and imaging
Knowledge graphs (KGs), and integrating LLMs with KGs
Multimodal LLMs
Special Physical/Mental Requirements
Special InstructionsFor information on UNC Postdoctoral Benefits and Services
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Department Contact Telephone or Email misty.parrish@unc.edu
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