Senior Scientist, AI / ML & Computer Vision

Edwards Lifesciences seeks a Senior Scientist to develop advanced deep learning computer vision models for medical imaging in structural heart disease applications. The role involves designing and validating models for echocardiography and CT imaging while collaborating with clinical, engineering, and regulatory teams to ensure solutions meet healthcare deployment standards.

Responsibilities

• Design, train, fine-tune, and validate deep learning models for medical imaging applications across multiple modalities
• Develop AI capabilities for image quality assessment, segmentation, landmark detection, and clinical decision support
• Build and advance in-house medical imaging foundation models using supervised, self-supervised, and transfer learning
• Ensure model generalization across multiple imaging vendors and protocols; evaluate for systemic bias and performance drift
• Partner with AI Evaluation, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, and Software Engineering teams on verification and regulatory documentation

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or related technical field plus four years AI/ML engineering experience
• Proven experience designing, training, and validating end-to-end deep learning computer vision models
• Strong medical image analysis background in segmentation, registration, landmark detection, or classification
• MS or PhD in computer vision, biomedical engineering, or equivalent industry experience preferred
• Proficiency with PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, OpenCV, and related ML/CV libraries
• Experience with DICOM imaging data and large-scale medical imaging datasets
• Knowledge of modern architectures including CNNs, vision transformers, and self-supervised learning approaches