Agentic AI Scientist - Office of Data Science
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital2 months ago
Memphis, TN, USAEntry Level / Mid Level / Senior
Base Salary
$86k - $155k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead computationally focused agentic-AI research and engineering projects with moderate manager supervision.
- Design and orchestrate agent hierarchies, tool use, handoffs, checkpointing, and human-in-the-loop controls.
- Build and maintain MCP servers and clients and A2A-interoperable agents connected to St. Jude data and operational systems.
- Instrument agents with tracing, evaluations, guardrails, and cost and latency budgets.
- Identify, process, summarize, review, and report results; draft manuscripts and technical reports.
- Guide and mentor staff on agentic-AI techniques, best practices, and standards.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Biomedical Engineering, or a related field plus 6+ years of relevant experience; or a master’s degree plus 4+ years; or an entry-level PhD with no work experience.
- One to two first-author papers in journals with an impact factor above 5, or equivalent contributions to research or open-source projects.
- Strong Python skills and experience with agent frameworks, interoperability protocols, orchestration, evaluation, observability, identity, security, deployment, testing, version control, and reproducible evaluation harnesses.
- Depth in at least one agent framework and working awareness across agent interoperability, control loops, evaluation, identity, secure deployment, and retrieval/context engineering.
- Preferred experience with applied ML or agentic-AI research, shipping LLM-integrated systems, and healthcare, biomedical, or research-intensive domains.
- Project coordination, maintenance, and research support experience are preferred.
- A PhD requirement may be waived for an extraordinarily unusual level of scientific contribution.
Benefits
- Estimated base salary range is $86,320-$154,960 per year.
- Exceptional benefits are available.
- The position is based in Memphis, Tennessee; no remote or hybrid arrangement is stated.
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About St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is a nonprofit pediatric research hospital that treats children with cancer and other life‑threatening diseases and advances therapies through in-house labs, clinical trials, and data resources like St. Jude Cloud. Founded in 1962 and headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, it is funded primarily by public donations raised by ALSAC and by research grants. The hospital provides care regardless of a family’s ability to pay and collaborates globally.