Please send a cover letter describing your interests, relevant experience, and specific fit for our lab and this position, a CV, and three names of references to Pedro.PinheiroChagas@ucsf.edu.
The NeuroAI Lab at UCSF, led by Assistant Professor Pedro Pinheiro-Chagas, invites applications for a Data Scientist to support and advance our research initiatives at the intersection of AI and cognitive neuroscience. The successful candidate will contribute to a multidisciplinary team developing cutting-edge AI systems for the discovery, diagnosis, and care of neurodegenerative diseases.
The Data Scientist will work across the lab’s core research areas, including: (1) foundation AI models that leverage large-scale clinical databases to identify disease subtypes and risk factors; (2) agentic AI decision support systems that synthesize multimodal patient data for specialist-level diagnoses; and (3) AI conversational agents for scalable clinical assessments. The role involves designing and maintaining robust data pipelines, curating and analyzing complex multimodal datasets (clinical notes, neuropsychological assessments, neuroimaging), developing and evaluating machine learning models, and contributing to research publications.
The ideal candidate will have strong programming skills and experience with generative AI and traditional ML algorithms, a passion for translational research, and the ability to work effectively across disciplines. This position offers exceptional opportunities for professional growth at the forefront of health AI, with direct exposure to world-class clinical collaborators and the potential to impact real-world patient care.
The NeuroAI Lab is directed by Pedro Pinheiro-Chagas, PhD, and operates at the UCSF Edward and Pearl Fein Memory and Aging Center (MAC) in the Department of Neurology of the Weill Institute for Neurosciences. The lab is also affiliated with the Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute and the Center for Intelligent Imaging (ci2). This unique positioning at the intersection of clinical neuroscience and AI provides the data scientist with direct access to world-class clinical collaborators, deeply phenotyped patient cohorts, and cutting-edge computational infrastructure. The data scientist will benefit from close mentorship by Dr. Pinheiro-Chagas and senior collaborators across neurology, neuropsychology, and radiology, with opportunities to present at international conferences, contribute to publications, and develop expertise at the forefront of health AI. The UCSF Fein MAC is one of the premier dementia research centers in the world, offering an exceptionally rich and collaborative environment for translational neuroscience and clinical AI research.