Advanced Medical Physicist - Radiation Oncology, Full-Time, Days

Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States

Salary: USD 120.30–162.41 per hour

Company

Northwestern Medicine provides patient-focused healthcare services and offers employee benefits including tuition reimbursement, loan forgiveness, and 401(k) matching.

What you will do

• Manage medical physics operations within a radiotherapy clinic.
• Perform complex treatment planning, patient positioning support, and comprehensive machine and patient quality assurance.
• Conduct acceptance testing, commissioning, validation, and data characterization for radiation therapy equipment and related computer systems.
• Develop treatment protocols, standard operating procedures, technical documentation, and specifications for external beam therapy, brachytherapy, simulation, and dosimetry.
• Provide expert consultation on dosimetry and patient care while guiding imaging, simulation, treatment planning, and radiation delivery workflows.
• Supervise medical physics assistants, residents, and dosimetrists and contribute to research, education, committees, and quality improvement initiatives.

Requirements

• ABR Board Certification in Therapeutic Medical Physics.
• Illinois Emergency Management registration as a Therapeutic Radiological Physicist.
• Advanced expertise in radiation therapy equipment, treatment planning, quality assurance, and regulatory compliance.
• Experience collaborating with physicians, nurses, therapists, dosimetrists, and other multidisciplinary clinical staff.
• Full-time availability for the day shift.

Nice to have

• PhD.
• 4–8 years of experience.
• Illinois Emergency Management registration as a Diagnostic Imaging Specialist.

Culture & Benefits

• Patient-first healthcare environment focused on quality and safety.
• Tuition reimbursement and loan forgiveness programs.
• 401(k) matching and broader lifecycle benefits.
• Background check required for new hires and certain internal transfers.
• Artificial intelligence tools may be used in parts of the candidate review process, while employment decisions are made by a person.