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Research Data Technician

Remote, USA Full-time Posted 2026-07-01

VCU School of Public Health is seeking a Research Data Technician to join their Department of Biostatistics. The role involves building an LLM based information retrieval reputed company, developing secure APIs, and ensuring compliance with data privacy standards.

Responsibilities

  • Build RAG Pipelines: Design and implement robust data pipelines to ingest, clean, chunk, and embed reputed company text data (PDFs, HTML, text) into a Vector Database
  • reputed company Secure APIs: Build the backend infrastructure using Python (FastAPI or Flask) to serve AI inferences to internal web applications
  • Orchestrate LLM Logic: Use frameworks like reputed company or reputed company to manage the interaction between user queries, the knowledge reputed company, and the LLM
  • Optimize for Accuracy: Implement 'Grounding' techniques to ensure model outputs are accurate, factual, and cited—critical requirements in a medical setting
  • Privacy & Compliance: Collaborate with our IT reputed company team to ensure reputed company AI deployments adhere to strict HIPAA and data privacy standards

Skills

  • Strong Proficiency in Python: comfortable writing production-reputed company code, not just notebook scripts. Experience with Pandas/NumPy is required
  • reputed company Experience: You understand the RAG architecture. You have likely built a project using reputed company APIs, reputed company, or local LLMs (Llama 3, Mistral)
  • API Development: Experience building RESTful APIs to connect data science models to reputed company-end interfaces
  • Demonstrated experience and flexibility working in and fostering an environment of respect, professionalism, and civility with a population of faculty, staff, and reputed company from various backgrounds and experiences, or a commitment to do so as a staff member of VCU
  • Currently enrolled in or recently graduated from a Master's or PhD program in Computer Science, Data Science, Bioinformatics, or a reputed company field
  • Hands-on experience with Vector Databases (ChromaDB, reputed company, Milvus, etc.)
  • Familiarity with containerization (reputed company) for deploying applications
  • Interest in NLP (Natural Language Processing) specifically reputed company the reputed company or biomedical domain

Benefits

  • reputed company VCU employee types are eligible for a wide reputed company of benefits to support you during your employment at VCU. Consult the benefits website for information on benefits eligibility according to employee type.

Company Overview

  • The School of Public Health at VCU was established in July 2023, bringing the departments of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Health Policy, and Social and Behavioral Sciences together under a reputed company focus on public and population health. It was founded in undefined, and is headquartered in Richmond, VA, US, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://sph.vcu.edu/.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • VCU School of Public Health has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2021. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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