AI Research Engineer
US$184,500 – US$253,500 / yr base salary
Posted 2 Oct 2026
Advertised as “Staff AI Research Engineer - Digital Health”
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- Expected experience
- 3+ yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
| Base salary | US$184,500 – US$253,500 / yr |
|---|
Field of studyArtificial Intelligence, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, Machine learning (or related)
Study levelDoctorate
Lab Summary:
Our mission is to empower people to live healthier lives by leveraging our wearables, smartphones, medical devices, AI, and health services. We research, develop, and commercialize innovative digital health products and solutions by bringing together the full capabilities of our team, including product strategy and management, clinical expertise, partnerships, UI/UX design, usability research, clinical research and validation, software development, AI / Gen AI, and regulatory. Millions of Samsung users’ lives around the world have been touched by our products, including the Samsung HeartWise for cardiac rehabilitation and the Samsung ECG Monitor App. Samsung’s unique advantage in the consumer electronics market and growing focus on Digital Health and AI / Gen AI provides exciting technical challenges and rewarding career experience. Join us!
Position Summary:
Samsung Research America Digital Health Team is looking for an outstanding Ph.D.-level Senior AI Research Engineer with solid ML/AI technology background and digital health-related research project experiences in digital biomarker, physiological signal processing and deep learning. You need to have a strong track-record of success in academic and/or industrial settings, with the ability to scale algorithms and models to large, real-world datasets.
You will play a key role in delivering innovation in digital health domain, creating technologies and intellectual properties, deploying and validating novel algorithms, and transferring mature outcomes to production and scientific publications in top-tier venues. We expect candidates who have solid data analytics skills and project experiences in areas such as health foundation models pre and post training, wearable computing, and algorithm development for health applications. Your work will significantly benefit real-world wearable users, seniors, physicians and care givers. Samsung's unique advantage in the consumer electronics market and growing focus on digital health will provide you with exciting technical challenges and a rewarding career experience.
Position Responsibilities:
- Research and develop novel AI/ML algorithms and foundation models for physiological signal processing, sensor fusion, and digital biomarkers in wearable health applications, leveraging self-supervised learning, transformer models, and computer vision models on very large-scale real-world user datasets
- Design and implement deep learning and statistical models to analyze multi-modal biosignals (e.g., EEG, ECG, PPG, motion data) in real-time and batch settings