Komen Graduate Training Program UT MDACC ยท 16 hours ago
Postdoctoral Fellow - Radiation Oncology - Research
Houston, TX
Full-time
Hybrid
New Grad, Entry Level
$64K/yr - $76K/yrKomen Graduate Training Program UT MDACC is focused on advancing research in oncology. The Postdoctoral Fellow will lead technical research and data engineering efforts for NIH-funded studies, developing data standards and predictive models related to oral and dental toxicities in cancer patients.
Hospital & Health Care
Responsibilities
Design, build, and maintain production-quality research data pipelines supporting prospective and retrospective oncology cohorts
Implement ETL / ELT workflows to ingest, transform, validate, and harmonize structured and unstructured data from: Electronic health records (EHR), Imaging metadata and derived features, Patient-reported outcomes (ePROs), Dental and oral health assessments, Research databases and external registries
Proactively identify opportunities to improve data quality, completeness, and reproducibility across research workflows
Serve as a technical resource for data model design, schema evolution, and versioning
Support the development and maintenance of research ontologies and common data elements (CDEs) aligned with national standards (e.g., clinical, imaging, and outcomes domains)
Translate existing research data models into ontology-based representations to support analytics, interoperability, and AI workflows
Document data schemas, ontologies, transformations, and analytical assumptions to support transparency and reuse
Collaborate with investigators to refine data structures that improve extensibility, semantic clarity, and downstream analysis
Prepare structured and unstructured datasets for predictive, descriptive, and exploratory modeling, including AI/ML and statistical analyses
Support LLM-based workflows for extraction of clinical concepts from free-text (e.g., clinical notes, imaging reports, pathology reports)
Assist with feature engineering, cohort construction, and data serialization for modeling and visualization platforms
Build and manage data assets using modern analytics platforms; experience with Palantir Foundry is desired but not required
For Foundry users: Create and maintain backing datasets, transformations, and ontology objects; Implement data validations, permissions, and pipeline monitoring; Design and deploy interactive, ontology-driven workflow-specific Workshop Apps
For non-Foundry users: Apply equivalent best practices using relational databases, Python/SQL workflows, and cloud or on-prem research environments
Work closely with clinicians, research coordinators, statisticians, and informatics teams to translate scientific questions into data solutions
Produce clear technical documentation (data dictionaries, pipeline descriptions, SOPs)
Support IRB-compliant data governance, including secure handling of PHI and research data
Assist with onboarding and training of research staff in data systems and best practices
Contribute to abstracts, figures, and analytic summaries for publications and grant reporting
Qualification
Required
The appointee recently (within three years) completed their education (doctorate) or completed previous postdoctoral experience or graduate medical education
The appointment is temporary
The appointment involves substantial full-time research or scholarship
The appointment is viewed as preparatory for a full-time academic and/or research career
The appointment is not part of a clinical training program
The appointee works under the supervision of a senior scholar or a department in a university or similar research institution (e.g., national laboratory, National Institutes of Health (NIH), etc.)
The appointee has the freedom to and is expected to publish the results of his or her research or scholarship during the period of the appointment
Preferred
Experience with Palantir Foundry is desired but not required
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Paid time off
Retirement
Tuition benefits
Educational opportunities
Individual and team recognition
Company
Komen Graduate Training Program UT MDACC
Through generous funding from Susan G.
11-50 employees
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