Job Description

About Ultromics

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Picture yourself at one of the world's most innovative companies, providing life-saving AI solutions that can make a real difference in helping to combat one of the world's biggest health burdens. Surrounded by teams and people who challenge you, support you, and inspire you to be extraordinary. Are you ready to join the fight against heart failure?


We are redefining Cardiovascular Medicine through transformational AI solutions and work alongside major collaborations such as Mayo Clinic and the NHS England, with one shared ambition, to save lives.


Ultromics is a global leader in AI-powered cardiovascular imaging diagnostics, transforming how heart disease is detected, assessed, and managed. Spun out from the University of Oxford, UK and built on a decade of world-leading research, Ultromics is redefining echocardiography with solutions that deliver actionable insights to clinicians and healthcare systems.


Our unique cloud SaaS platform leverages advanced FDA cleared AI diagnostics to unlock complex cardiovascular conditions, including heart failure, cardiac amyloidosis, and more. We have established a world-class clinical evidence base with over 25 peer-reviewed publications, global collaborations with leading academic institutions and healthcare providers, and pivotal partnerships with life sciences organizations focused on drug development and commercialisation.


Ultromics is backed by some of the worlds most influential healthcare and technology VC investors, including Google Ventures (GV), Optum Ventures (UnitedHealth Group), Blue Venture Fund (Blue Cross Blue Shield), and other leading U.S. and U.K.-based funds. These strategic partnerships accelerate our access to healthcare systems, payers, and life sciences organisations, and support our ambition to reshape cardiovascular care on a global scale.


Ultromics is one of the first AI echocardiography solutions to achieve Category III CPT reimbursement from CMS in the U.S., unlocking a scalable commercial pathway and accelerating adoption in routine clinical care. Our growing product portfolio includes tools for disease detection, disease progression assessment, and treatment eligibility evaluation.


We are now expanding our reach, integrating into major healthcare systems and advancing partnerships with life sciences, pharma, and medtech companies to support drug trials and post-market surveillance. Our platform is poised to become the standard in AI-driven cardiovascular diagnostics, enabling better outcomes for patients and more efficient care delivery for providers.

Why Join Us?

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Be part of a mission-led company tackling one of the worlds biggest health challenges: heart failure Contribute to cutting-edge AI technologies backed by robust research, regulatory clearances, and reimbursement pathways Collaborate with a passionate, multi-disciplinary team of clinicians, scientists, engineers, and commercial experts Work at the intersection of healthcare, AI, and medical imaging with opportunities to shape the future of diagnostics Join us and help change the future of heart health making cardiovascular disease more detectable, treatable, and survivable for patients everywhere.

Your Role

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As a Senior Computer Vision and AI Engineer, you will work on AI based medical device solutions applied to echocardiographic medical images. You will work within the AI and Computer Vision Engineering Team to create solutions that satisfy clinical needs in cardiovascular medicine using deep learning, computer vision, mathematical, statistical and machine learning methods. You will draw on your technical and scientific expertise to keep the company at the forefront of ground-breaking research.

Your Responsibilities

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+ Independently carry out research to characterize and address problems related to echocardiography image analysis. + Develop new algorithms and computational tools for AI-enabled computational medical image analysis involving image quantification, disease detection, outcomes predictions, etc.
+ Evaluate and optimise AI models for computational performance and speed.
+ Document research findings, experiments, and results clearly and concisely.
+ Ensure you keep up to date with the latest advances in AI, deep learning and medical imaging and utilise these new techniques in your research
+ Develop tools to be used in assisting with development workflows
+ Review code created by other team members
+ Work with development team to assist deployment of research code into production
+ Mentor junior team members within the team, continuously developing your skills and helping others develop theirs
+ Input into product designs, and providing constructive feedback
+ Complete regulatory filing documents related to AI development within the USA geography.
+ Write up research papers for the purposes of publication, and abstracts to present at international conferences
+ Follow good information governance practice throughout this job role and ensure compliance with Ultromics information security and data protection policies in all applicable assigned tasks.
+ This list of duties is not exhaustive, and the post holder may be asked to carry out other duties through discussion with their line manager.

Requirements

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Your skills and experience

+ Doctorate in Machine Learning, Image analysis, AI, computer science or other mathematical/scientific background, or equivalent research experience + 3+ years of industry experience or equivalent in the field.
+ Strong proficiency with scientific programming languages such as Python, and libraries such as Tensorflow or PyTorch.
+ Experience with industry grade software development and project management tools (git, CI/CD, Jira, Confluence, etc).
+ Strong presentation, writing and communication skills.
+ Analytical skills - ability to structure and process qualitative or quantitative data and draw insightful conclusions from it.
+ Good organisational and project management skills.
+ Works effectively with others, contributes strongly, recognises the value of differing contributions, supportive and collaborative.
+ Strong competence on deep learning and machine learning techniques.
+ Strong competence on image processing and computer vision techniques, such as CNNs, and vision transformers.
+ Ability to work to tight deadlines.
+ Strong intellectual curiosity and passion to apply innovative ideas to solve real-world problems.
+ Strong research track record in the field.
+ Adaptability/flexibility - adjusts quickly to changing priorities and conditions
+ Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure for training and deployment of AI models.

Your desired skills and experience

+ Background in medical imaging, especially DICOM format + Deep learning methods particularly applied to medical imaging and/or video data

Our Benefits

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We are committed to promoting work-life balance and offer a range of benefits to encourage this, including:


+ Flexible working hours between 7am-7pm + Hybrid working options
+ Bonus scheme
+ PMI
+ Life assurance
+ Company-wide events
+ Two additional paid Company holidays in December (if they fall on Monday-Friday)
+ Well-incentive benefit
+ 5% company pension contribution
+ Employee referral reward
+ Generous personal learning budget on our online learning marketplace, Learnerbly
+ Cyclescheme
+ A well-stocked kitchen with free snacks - and great coffee!

Our Values

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+ We start with compassion; We do this by communicating with empathy and welcoming different opinions and experiences. This means we can better identify and leverage each others strengths and talents to deliver. We are inclusive and are always mindful of our colleagues wellbeing. + We spark creativity; We do this by being adventurous, curious and innovative in spirit. Whilst also helping each other to evolve and progress. This means we question the status quo and, by doing so, shape our business and influence the field of science and healthcare.
+ We show courage; We do this by stepping out of our comfort zone, welcoming challenges and encouraging feedback at all times. This means we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence to grow a progressive, responsible and transformational culture.
+ We stay connected; We do this by relying on the increasingly connected globe to unleash learning support and teamwork from anyone and anywhere.This means we collaborate with healthcare professionals, patients and partners to stay ahead of the curve. We depend on each other and grow together as one team.
+ We serve our customers; We do this by honouring our commitments, listening and responding to our internal and external customers needs. This means we are a trusted partner in the support of advancing healthcare in Echocardiography, support each other's needs and make a meaningful contribution to peoples lives.