Heartflow is a medical technology company advancing the diagnosis and management of coronary artery disease, the #1 cause of death worldwide, using cutting-edge technology. The flagship product—an AI-driven, non-invasive cardiac test supported by the ACC/AHA Chest Pain Guidelines called the Heartflow FFRCT Analysis—provides a color-coded, 3D model of a patient’s coronary arteries indicating the impact blockages have on blood flow to the heart. Heartflow is the first AI-driven non-invasive integrated heart care solution across the CCTA pathway that helps clinicians identify stenoses in the coronary arteries (RoadMap™Analysis), assess coronary blood flow (FFRCT Analysis), and characterize and quantify coronary atherosclerosis (Plaque Analysis). Our pipeline of products is growing and so is our team; join us in helping to revolutionize precision heartcare.
Heartflow is a publicly traded company (HTFL) that has received international recognition for exceptional strides in healthcare innovation, is supported by medical societies around the world, cleared for use in the US, UK, Europe, Japan and Canada, and has been used for more than 500,000 patients worldwide.
Join Heartflow’s world-class Research team as a Collaborating Research Scientist with a joint visiting researcher appointment in Professor Ben Glocker’s lab at Imperial College London. This position focuses on advancing state-of-the-art Generative AI technologies for Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography (CCTA). In this role, you will work on cutting edge academic research, IP generation and high-impact publications while ensuring that technical breakthroughs can be translated into Heartflow’s product-grade models.
At Imperial College: You will be an active member of one of the world’s leading medical imaging labs, participating in seminars, collaborating with academics, and engaging in the vibrant Imperial ecosystem in South Kensington.
At Heartflow: You will be a key stakeholder in our research roadmap, with access to massive, proprietary datasets that are unavailable to pure academic labs, with the opportunity for translation of your work into medical devices with global impact.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and implement state-of-the-art generative architectures to synthesize high-fidelity, anatomically accurate CCTA image data.
- Publish and present at top-tier venues (such as MICCAI, ICCV, CVPR, NeurIPS).
- Provide technical reports and reproducible code to enable the translation of research into products by Research team members and development teams.
- Identify and protect new IP for Heartflow in emerging AI domains.
- Educate people across groups and departments on generative AI.
Skills Needed:
- Proven expertise in generative AI methods for computer vision or medical image analysis (diffusion models, flow matching, GANs, VAEs).
- Ability to clearly communicate complex ideas, tailoring content for diverse audiences.
- Experience developing generative AI systems with large-scale imaging datasets.
- Advanced proficiency in Python and PyTorch, with a commitment to writing clean, reproducible and scalable research code.
- A track record of first-author publications in top tier AI or medical imaging conferences.
Desirable Skills:
- Experience in causal modeling, and/or conditional generative models.
- Experience in developing multimodal generative AI systems.
- Experience developing AI systems with sparse and/or noisy labels.
- Experience building deep learning models for 3D medical image data.
Educational Requirements & Work Experience:
- A PhD degree in computer science, engineering, math or similar technical field.
- Preferably 2+ years related experience, in industry or academia, with Generative AI in computer vision or medical image analysis.
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What We Do
Heartflow is the global leader in AI-driven coronary artery disease (CAD) management, transforming how CAD — the world’s leading cause of death — is diagnosed and treated. Our advanced technology generates personalized, precision 3D heart models from a single CT scan, providing clinicians with the clarity and confidence to deliver earlier, more effective treatments — transforming CAD into a disease that can be managed for life.
Heartflow One is the only complete, non-invasive, precision coronary care platform providing patient insights throughout the guideline-directed CCTA pathway. The AI-driven platform — including Roadmap™ Analysis, FFRCT Analysis and Plaque Analysis — is supported by the ACC/AHA Chest Pain Guideline and backed by more than 600 peer-reviewed publications.
With over 400,000 patients treated, more than 1,400 leading institutions adopting our solution, and 99.5% of U.S. lives covered — Heartflow is redefining the standard of coronary care. We're a global company, with employees across the United States, Europe and Japan. Our headquarters are in Mountain View, California, with additional offices in California, Texas, the UK, and Japan.
We believe CAD shouldn’t be a silent threat. By making it screenable, diagnosable, and manageable, we’re changing the story of CAD, empowering clinicians to save lives and giving patients more time for what matters most.
Why Work With Us
Join Us to Rewrite the Story of CAD.
