Research Assistant-Professional Student, Internal Medicine, Dell Medical School

Job Posting Title:

Research Assistant-Professional Student, Internal Medicine, Dell Medical School

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Hiring Department:

Department of Medicine

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Position Open To:

All Applicants

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Weekly Scheduled Hours:

40

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FLSA Status:

Non-Exempt from FLSA

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Earliest Start Date:

Aug 24, 2026

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Position Duration:

Expected to Continue Until Aug 31, 2027

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Location:

UT MAIN CAMPUS

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Job Details:

General Notes

Position is funded by a K12 Mentored Career Development Award in Clinical and Translational Science. A Claude Code Enterprise Max subscription is provided for the duration of the appointment. Co-authorship on resulting publications is available consistent with contribution.

Purpose

The Research Assistant-Professional Student will help design, build, and evaluate a clinical decision-support application for Long COVID currently used by clinicians and being prepared for wider deployment. This is a hands-on building role on a live system, not a support role. The RA will work closely and directly with Dr. Brode, using AI coding assistants (primarily Claude Code): collaborating on development specifications, implementing and QAing features, running evaluation harnesses, and helping move the application toward public availability. The role suits someone who takes initiative, finishes what they start, and is comfortable exercising judgment in a fast-moving technical environment. A genuine interest in clinical decision support, bioinformatics, or biostatistics matters more here than any particular credential.

Responsibilities

Feature Development and Quality Assurance

• Implement, test, and QA features on a production Flask/React clinical AI application, working from shared development specifications.
• Work primarily through AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Codex) as the development medium, exercising critical judgment about generated output rather than accepting it.
• Contribute to release readiness: bug triage, regression testing, and documentation ahead of deployment milestones.

Evaluation Execution

• Administer and manage a multi-reviewer blinded evaluation study, including survey instrument ownership, reviewer coordination, and data collection.
• Run and maintain automated evaluation harnesses (safety testing, citation fidelity, factuality checks).
• Clean, validate, and deliver analysis-ready datasets, including inter-rater reliability.

Research Operations and Dissemination

• Produce figures, tables, and supplementary materials for manuscripts and conference submissions.
• Manage references and citation records; handle journal submission mechanics.
• Maintain study documentation under IRB-approved protocols.

Design and User Research

• Support usability and co-design sessions with clinicians and patients.
• Contribute to interface refinement and to health-literacy-appropriate content for patient-facing work.
• Note: this function may scale up substantially depending on the direction the project takes in Year 2.

Required Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in a graduate or professional degree program at UT Austin, and eligible for student employment for the duration of the appointment (including summer enrollment requirements).

• Experience building something functional yourself, using an AI coding assistant as part of how you work (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or similar). Scale does not matter and beginners are welcome. What matters is that you have taken something from an idea to working, and that you were the one driving. See supplemental questions.

• Able to work independently in a technical environment: you can get your own tools running, tell whether generated code is doing what you actually asked for, and troubleshoot.

• Strong written communication, including the ability to give clear, proactive status updates without prompting.

Relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate.

Preferred Qualifications

• Working familiarity with Python. Depth is not required.

• Experience in user experience design, user research, or qualitative methods. This role has real design and co-design work in it, and a strong background here is valued even if your technical experience is earlier-stage.

• A portfolio of completed projects: public repositories, deployed applications, notebooks, or similar.

Hourly Rate
$25.00 Hourly

Working Conditions

• May work around standard office conditions

• Repetitive use of a keyboard at a workstation

• Use of manual dexterity

Required Materials

• Resume/CV

• Letter of interest

Important for applicants who are NOT current university employees or contingent workers: You will be prompted to submit your resume the first time you apply, then you will be provided an option to upload a new Resume for subsequent applications. Any additional Required Materials (letter of interest, references, etc.) will be uploaded in the Application Questions section; you will be able to multi-select additional files. Before submitting your online job application, ensure that ALL Required Materials have been uploaded.  Once your job application has been submitted, you cannot make changes.

Important for Current university employees and contingent workers: As a current university employee or contingent worker, you MUST apply within Workday by searching for Find UT Jobs. If you are a current University employee, log-in to Workday, navigate to your Worker Profile, click the Career link in the left hand navigation menu and then update the sections in your Professional Profile before you apply. This information will be pulled in to your application. The application is one page and you will be prompted to upload your resume. In addition, you must respond to the application questions presented to upload any additional Required Materials (letter of interest, references, etc.) that were noted above.

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Employment Eligibility:

Please make sure you meet all the required qualifications and you can perform all of the essential functions with or without a reasonable accommodation.

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Retirement Plan Eligibility:

Students in this position may choose to enroll in the UTSaver voluntary retirement programs.

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Background Checks:

A criminal history background check will be required for finalist(s) under consideration for this position.

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Equal Opportunity Employer:

The University of Texas at Austin, as an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, complies with all applicable federal and state laws regarding nondiscrimination and affirmative action. The University is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all persons and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability, religion, or veteran status in employment, educational programs and activities, and admissions.

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Pay Transparency:

The University of Texas at Austin will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.

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Employment Eligibility Verification:

If hired, you will be required to complete the federal Employment Eligibility Verification I-9 form.  You will be required to present acceptable and original documents to prove your identity and authorization to work in the United States.  Documents need to be presented no later than the third day of employment.  Failure to do so will result in loss of employment at the university.

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E-Verify:

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• E-Verify Poster (English and Spanish) [PDF]
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Compliance:

Employees may be required to report violations of law under Title IX and the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act). If this position is identified a Campus Security Authority (Clery Act), you will be notified and provided resources for reporting. Responsible employees under Title IX are defined and outlined in HOP-3031.

The Clery Act requires all prospective employees be notified of the availability of the Annual Security and Fire Safety report. You may access the most recent report here or obtain a copy at University Compliance Services, 1616 Guadalupe Street, UTA 2.206, Austin, Texas 78701.