Open Positions
Are you excited about digital health?
Do you want to advance health outcomes and equity through digital health innovation, education, and translation?
Join our digital health team at the Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign!
We are excited to announce that we are looking for multiple people to join our team! Consider the following opportunities to join our growing team & check out our research opportunities.
We are looking for students, postdocs, clinical research coordinators, and software engineers to join our team in the following areas:
Clinical Research Coordinator
Are you excited about validating and testing the applicability of cutting-edge digital health solutions? Do you want to lead the coordination or large-scale usability and evaluation studies working with students, patients, and participants to investigate the impact of digital health solutions?
- Experience in conducting clinical and usability trials, including study design considerations and obtaining institutional review board (IRB) approval.
- Experience in writing grants, planning research projects from conceptualization to publication, and summarizing findings in research manuscripts.
- Ability to lead and coordinate students, volunteers, and participants in clinical studies and pilot trials.
Communications & Marketing
Are you passionate about technical innovations and the latest advancements in digital health? Do you want to take leadership in ensuring that new developers, students, and collaborators have direct access to our open-source tools to make them as accessible as possible?
- Experience in grant writing, technical writing and documentation, and translating complex research topics into digestible information pieces.
- Experience in working administering social media accounts, web pages, and creating public-facing material.
- Creative approach to engage community members, software engineers, and medical professionals to get them excited about digital health solutions.
Kotlin & Jetpack Compose
Do you want to shape the next generation of Spezi applications by supporting Biodesign Digital Health in developing the Spezi ecosystem for Android? Are you passionate about building an open-source community based on the latest advancements in Android development and Kotlin language releases?
- In-depth experience using Kotlin & Jetpack Compose to develop mobile applications and reusable gradel dependencies.
- Advanced knowledge of Kotlin language features such as coroutines, DSL language features, and delegated properties.
- Experience working on a team-based project using GitHub, continuous delivery & integration, automated testing, documentation writing, and code linting. Ideally, existing open-source development experience.
Swift & SwiftUI Development
Are you passionate about open-source development and want to support our Stanford Spezi ecosystem of digital health modules? Do you have experience developing reusable frameworks using Swift Packages? Are you an expert on advanced SwiftUI concepts, and are you excited about the latest advancements in Swift?
- In-depth experience using Swift & SwiftUI to develop mobile applications and Swift Packages.
- Advanced knowledge of Swift concurrency concepts, generics, code reusability, and API design.
- Experience working on a team-based project using GitHub, continuous delivery & integration, automated testing, documentation writing, and code linting. Ideally, existing open-source development experience.
Web Frontend Development, React, and TypeScript
Are you excited about surfacing relevant information for clinicians to ensure they have all relevant patient information right at their hands, e.g., using SMART-on-FHIR dashboards? Are you excited about advanced concepts of reusing functionality across multiple web applications by writing shared reusable React components and using static types to ensure long-term stability and advanced checks at build time?
- In-depth experience developing web frontend applications using TypeScript and frameworks such as React.
- Advanced knowledge of maintaining and distributing npm packages, reusable react components, modularized system designs, and API design.
- Experience working on a team-based project using GitHub, continuous delivery & integration, automated testing, documentation writing, and code linting. Ideally, existing open-source development experience.
Web Service Development
Are you excited about the possibilities of automation in in-depth EHR integration, including clinical decision support systems, using LLMs in a clinical context, and processing health data on a large scale? Are you passionate about cloud deployments, secure authentication and authorization mechanisms, developer automation, and monitoring critical clinical systems using logs, metrics, and traces?
- In-depth experience in using TypeScript for web service development.
- Advanced knowledge of TypeScript language features, maintaining and distributing npm packages, RESTful API design, OpenAPI specifications, and ORM frameworks.
- It is beneficial if you are familiar with health interoperability standards such as HL7 FHIR, SMART-on-FHIR integrations, and EHR integrations.
- Experience working on a team-based project using GitHub, continuous delivery & integration, automated testing, documentation writing, and code linting. Ideally, existing open-source development experience.
We want to explicitly encourage applications from diverse backgrounds and existing skill sets. We are more than aware of the challenges of impostor syndrome, especially in the academic setting.
We encourage applicants to familiarize themselves with our existing open-source modules ecosystem, including the Stanford Spezi ecosystem. Do you want to try out your developer skills, and do you want to get feedback before applying to a position? We highly encourage you to tackle a "good first issue" in our open-source project board.