Applied AI Health Scientist
AI summary of the role
This role supports ARPA-H as an Applied AI Health Scientist, providing technical expertise across the full lifecycle of AI system development—from data curation and model training to deployment and validation in clinical settings.
What you’ll do
- Review and evaluate AI/ML technical proposals and deliverables from external teams.
- Provide guidance on model development, training methods, and validation strategies to identify risks and recommend corrective actions.
- Advise on integration of multimodal health data (EHR, imaging, genomic, patient-reported).
- Evaluate benchmarking results and advise on deployment considerations including interpretability, reliability, and safety.
What you’ll bring
- 5+ years of experience with Applied AI in the Health domain.
- Experience applying advanced ML methods (LLMs, deep learning) to complex health datasets (EHR, genomic, imaging).
- Experience in AI/ML evaluation methods: robustness, fairness, interpretability, reproducibility.
- Experience interacting with senior-level executives (SES or GS-15).
Technologies
AI · machine learning · LLMs · deep learning · EHR · genomic data · imaging data · multimodal data · benchmarking · model validation
About Booz Allen
Builds AI, cyber, cloud, and engineering solutions for U.S. defense, intelligence, and civil agencies, blending consulting scale with mission-specific technology delivery.
Public · 5000+ people
Source and classification
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Applied AI Health Scientist The Opportunity: To achieve an organization’s mission, leaders need strong team members who can create processes, communicate requirements, and develop innovative solutions throughout the execution of the mission. Whether completing an immediate task, recognizing a process gap, recommending a solution, or flexing to support an immerging requirement, our clients need someone who can help manage operations while managing responses to external inquiries in a timely manner. That is why we need you, an experienced Applied AI Scientist for Health who can contribute expertise across the full lifecycle of AI system development: data aggregation and curation, model training and benchmarking, and deployment and validation in real-world clinical settings. As part of our team, you'll support the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), helping
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Applied AI Health Scientist The Opportunity: To achieve an organization’s mission, leaders need strong team members who can create processes, communicate requirements, and develop innovative solutions throughout the execution of the mission. Whether completing an immediate task, recognizing a process gap, recommending a solution, or flexing to support an immerging requirement, our clients need someone who can help manage operations while managing responses to external inquiries in a timely manner. That is why we need you, an experienced Applied AI Scientist for Health who can contribute expertise across the full lifecycle of AI system development: data aggregation and curation, model training and benchmarking, and deployment and validation in real-world clinical settings. As part of our team, you'll support the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), helping conceptualize, create, and execute advanced government-funded research and development programs to accelerate better health outcomes for everyone. Work with world-class scientists and engineers to support the development of high-impact solutions to society's most challenging health problems. Leverage technical expertise to provide strategic assessments of new technologies in support to senior ARPA-H decision makers. Maintain responsibility for producing and presenting findings and recommendations to a team [... source excerpt omitted ...] ty and potential impact of future research programs, assisting with the management of current programs, and facilitating commercialization of successfully developed technologies. You'll serve as an Applied AI Scientist for Health helping clients to critically assess technical approaches, advise program leadership, and ensure that funded performers and partners are meeting the highest standards of rigor, reproducibility, and real-world applicability. You will be responsible for managing incoming requirements, facilitating engagements within offices and across the Agency, and is readily available to shift your focus to fulfill emerging client requests. Your attention to detail, [... source excerpt omitted ...] d to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $77,600.00 to $176,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees. This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date. Identity Statement As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence t
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