Join a leading research team developing digital health solutions for the long-term monitoring of people. In this role, you help create innovative tools to prevent type-2 diabetes and support healthier lives through personalized nutrition and digital biomarker monitoring. Work in a dynamic environment focused on improving health, safety, and performance for society.
Your tasks
- Develop digital tools for food choice and meal planning, including proof of concepts and mock-ups
- Test these models in intervention trials with human subjects
- Create AI-driven agents to collect and organize nutritional information on food products
- Identify digital health risk biomarkers and use them to make personalized food recommendations through involvement in organizing and conducting human trials
- Organize experiments to study how food products affect health markers
- Communicate with project partners and external stakeholders
What you bring
- Master's degree in food sciences, biomedical engineering, or a related field in digital health
- Experience in data analytics, preferably in personalized nutrition and dietary interventions
- Pragmatic, problem-solver, and able to build working digital proof-of-concepts
- Knowledge of digital health solutions or non-communicable diseases
- Excellent communication skills and fluent in English (written and oral)
- German language skills are a plus
- Enjoy communicating with industrial and academic partners
What we offer
- Opportunity to grow and apply your engineering skills in an exciting, application-oriented research environment
- Work with experts and project partners from different fields and cultures
- Expand your knowledge and professional network
- Contract for 2 years, with possible extension for another 2 years
- Workplace in St. Gallen
- Start date: 1st September 2026 or by agreement
- Innovative, sustainable, and meaningful projects
- International, multicultural working environment
- Freedom to create and develop
- Culture of inclusion and respect
- Excellent work-life balance
- Benefits for rail, mobile, childcare, catering, and more
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Über uns
Empa is a leading research institution for materials science and technology, dedicated to innovative solutions that improve the well-being of society. With around 1,100 employees, Empa offers a diverse, multicultural, and inclusive environment where your work makes a real impact on health and sustainability.