Foundation AI Research Scientist

Join us in pioneering breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably. Our inspiring and caring environment forms a global community that celebrates diversity and individuality. We encourage you to step beyond your comfort zone, offering resources and flexibility to foster your professional and personal growth, all while valuing your unique contributions. Siemens Healthineers is seeking a Foundation AI Research Scientist to advance the development of next-generation multimodal foundation models for healthcare.

In this role, you will research, design, and develop large-scale AI models capable of learning and reasoning across complex medical data, including medical imaging, clinical text, electronic health records, real-time monitoring data, and other healthcare information. You will explore state‑of‑the‑art approaches in multimodal foundation models, vision‑language learning, model distillation, few‑and zero‑shot learning, and next‑generation AI architectures to dramatically accelerate the development of new clinical AI capabilities and enable systems that can scale across hundreds of findings and use cases.

Working at the intersection of foundational AI research and clinical application, you will collaborate closely with AI scientists, software engineers, and clinical experts to translate breakthrough research into scalable technologies that can ultimately support clinical workflows worldwide.

• Foundation AI Research & Development Designing and developing large-scale multimodal foundation models for healthcare and medical imaging applications. Researching next‑generation AI architectures and learning strategies capable of delivering significant improvements in downstream clinical performance. Developing innovative model distillation, transfer learning, few‑shot, and zero‑shot learning approaches to accelerate expansion of AI capabilities across a broad range of clinical findings and use cases.
  
  Advancing multimodal AI capable of learning across medical images, clinical text, patient history, and other healthcare data sources. Exploring approaches that move AI systems toward increasingly autonomous capabilities supporting clinical decision‑making, workflow automation, and personalized patient care. Designing methods to improve model generalization, robustness, uncertainty awareness, interpretability, and reliability in complex clinical environments. Staying at the forefront of developments in foundation models, multimodal learning, computer vision, generative AI, and medical AI research.
• Clinical AI Translation & Integration Collaborating closely with AI researchers, software engineers, clinical experts, and product teams to connect foundational AI research with real‑world healthcare applications. Supporting the integration of multimodal AI systems incorporating medical imaging, electronic health records, clinical text, real‑time monitoring, and other healthcare data. Translating research prototypes and novel AI methodologies into scalable approaches suitable for real‑world clinical environments.
  
  Helping enable the transition of advanced AI technologies from research into solutions capable of deployment across healthcare institutions worldwide.
• AI Safety, Reliability & Responsible AI Advancing research in AI safety, reliability, robustness, and interpretability for clinical AI systems. Developing approaches that help ensure foundation models perform reliably across diverse patient populations, clinical environments, and data distributions. Supporting the development of AI technologies aligned with clinical‑grade performance expectations, responsible AI principles, and applicable healthcare requirements. Contributing technical expertise toward…