BDC Post-Doc Research Associate
Company: UNC-Chapel Hill
Location: Chapel Hill
Posted on: April 3, 2026
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Job Description:
Position Summary The Renaissance Computing Institute ( RENCI )
at UNC Chapel Hill is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to
contribute to innovative projects within the NIH BioData Catalyst (
BDC ) ecosystem a cloud-based platform that provides secure access
to biomedical data, analytic tools, and collaborative workspaces.
This position offers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge
initiatives aimed at improving how researchers interact with
complex data and analysis workflows. Potential project areas
include developing semantic search capabilities to help users
efficiently locate relevant datasets, designing natural language
interfaces for more intuitive navigation of the BDC environment,
creating BDC -specific foundation models, and enabling large
language models ( LLM ) and machine learning-based workflows within
the platform. The role may also involve advancing harmonization
techniques to improve data interoperability and usability across
the ecosystem. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to
high-impact, translational research infrastructure at the
intersection of biomedical informatics, cloud computing, and AI.
Required Qualifications, Competencies, And Experience Experience
deploying and working with LLMs Agentic workflows and retrieval
augmented generation ( RAG ) Prompt engineering experience
Developing, training, and testing machine learning (ML) models
Software engineering expertise Preferred Qualifications,
Competencies, And Experience Experience with biomedical data,
including clinical, EHR , omics, and imaging Knowledge graphs
(KGs), and integrating LLMs with KGs Multimodal LLMs
Keywords: UNC-Chapel Hill, Durham , BDC Post-Doc Research Associate, Science, Research & Development , Chapel Hill, North Carolina