Job Type

Short Term Employee

Close Date

12/05/2025

Employee Group

Unifor Unit 1, Staff

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Department

FHS Health Evidence and Impact

Salary Grade/Band

Grade 10

Salary Range

$32.81 - $52.36 (hourly)

Contract Duration

12 Months

Hours per Week

35

Posting Details

Schedule

Monday to Friday 8:30 – 4:30

Education Level

Master's degree in Engineering in a relevant field of study.

Career Level

Requires a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience.

Anticipated Start Date

January 2026

Job Description Number

JD00404

Job Description

Team Description:

The Health Information Research Unit (HiRU) at McMaster has a long history of supporting evidence-based medicine (EBM) by providing preappraised evidence to the clinicians who need it quickly, efficiently, and in easy-to-use formats. Through this process, we have accumulated large datasets of high-quality, clinically ready articles that allow for advance machine learning/AI studies. The incorporation of large language models (LLMs) into health care is rapidly growing, and EBM is no exception. LLMs have demonstrated remarkable success in various downstream tasks, including information extraction and evidence summarization of clinical studies and bodies of literature. At HiRU, we have are testing AI-enabled approaches to identifying, curating, summarizing, and appraising clinical evidence while ensuring the quality and trustworthiness of the work we develop. An AI engineer with experience in applying NLP and LLMs is sought to accelerate our research and application in this area. The attached article has more details about the unit

General Description
Under general direction, responsible for providing specialized, highly-advanced, engineering services in a specific engineering field or discipline to design, develop, and coordinate research or contract projects. Provides significant technical depth and expertise.

Representative Duties & Responsibilities

• Design, fabricate, and assemble equipment and instruments that require the identification, modification, and adaptation of novel engineering techniques.
• Apply specialized knowledge to review, critically appraise, and interpret published literature.
• Conduct standardized research experiments using specialized equipment and instruments.
• Identify, analyze, and solve new, unique, and complex problems as presented in research contracts and projects.
• Apply standardized engineering principles and methods from a specialized field or discipline to solve problems.
• Collect, evaluate, and analyze data.
• May be required to design and develop computer software required for, but not limited to, data collection, design, modelling, and mathematical and statistical analysis.
• dentify, recommend, and incorporate new approaches and methodologies into research.
• Write sections of scientific reports and papers for inclusion in journal publications and contract reports.
• Format and summarize data and write technical reports based on research findings.
• Develop and deliver technical presentations to engineering colleagues, industry, and contract agencies.
• Provide leadership for a research project or contract by defining and coordinating resource needs, determining priorities to achieve project goals, and setting schedules that will meet defined deadlines.
• Assign and schedule work to others and review work for technical accuracy and adequacy.
• Provide financial and resource planning and tracking for research projects and contracts.
• Provide advice in a specialized field to colleagues, collaborators, and students.
• Exchanges technical and scientific information with others.
• Liaise with external clients and project partners.
• May be required to perform activities which require dexterity and precision including, but not limited to, the manual calibration of laboratory equipment, and assembly of circuit boards,
• Remain current with frequent advances in a technical field or scientific discipline

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Engineering in a relevant field of study. Requires a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience.

How To Apply

To apply for this job, please submit your application online.

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