Pediatric Cardiac Intensivist- BCM Physician

Critical Care MedicineIncludes weekendsFull-Time

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Job Description

Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital are seeking a Pediatric Cardiac Intensivist to join the growing critical care program at Texas Children’s Hospital North Austin Campus. This role offers the opportunity to provide highly specialized care, collaborate across disciplines, and help shape pediatric cardiac critical care services for children and families across Central Texas.

Practice in a state-of-the-art children’s hospital alongside pediatric cardiology, cardiac surgery, critical care, nursing, and other pediatric subspecialists. The position includes an academic appointment with Baylor College of Medicine and opportunities in teaching, quality improvement, research, mentorship, and program development.

Responsibilities

  • Provide comprehensive cardiac critical care in an 18-bed mixed pediatric and cardiac intensive care unit.
  • Evaluate and manage critically ill children, including patients with congenital and acquired heart disease.
  • Lead multidisciplinary rounds and partner with cardiology, cardiac surgery, critical care, nursing, and other specialty teams.
  • Coordinate care, complete clinical documentation, and communicate clearly and compassionately with patients’ families.
  • Contribute to quality, safety, education, research, and program development initiatives.

Qualifications

  • Board eligible or board certified in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine.
  • Training or experience in pediatric cardiac critical care preferred.
  • Eligible for a Texas medical license.
  • Current Pediatric Advanced Life Support certification.

Texas Children’s presence in Austin helps support a pediatric population of more than half a million and keeps kids healthy and happy from birth to adulthood.

Texas Children’s first health care location in Austin, Texas Children’s Urgent Care West Gate, opened in March 2018, providing high quality pediatric-focused care after hours and on weekends.

There are now more than 15 Texas Children’s Pediatric primary care practices in the greater Austin area providing full-service family care including routine childhood immunizations, well visits, and sick care.

Our Specialty Care Center in Austin includes a multidisciplinary group of pediatric specialists committed to providing comprehensive care across a wide spectrum of services. Texas Children’s Hospital North Austin, is our new state-of-the-art facility providing world-class pediatric and maternal care to Austin families.

To join our community of more than 15,000 dedicated team members, visit texaschildrenspeople.org.

Texas Children’s is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered and evaluated for positions at Texas Children's without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure
Experience
5+ years of experience

Certifications

PALSBoard Certification

Key Skills

Congenital Heart Disease ManagementMultidisciplinary Team LeadershipPatient Communication

Critical Care Medicine — Physician Career Context

Of the 40 active Physician listings this role was benchmarked against, 5% are remote, 88% have no call, 57% require no weekends.

In Texas, the Physician weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$304k (443 salary observations; 2,917 listings), vs ~$294k nationally (13,841 salary observations; 57,044 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2025-11-01 through 2026-10-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.

The cost-of-living index for Texas is 97.1 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 57.7% of Texas clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Physician pay on WeekdayDoc is up 1.6% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

Location & Logistics

Texas has no state income tax, which can significantly increase take-home pay compared to high-tax states.

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401k / retirement match
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CME allowance
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Sign-on bonus
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Relocation assistance
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Loan repayment
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Work-life snapshot

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Better work-life than 50% of Critical Care Medicine listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 227 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • Includes weekends

Living in Austin

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$455k
Typical market rent
$1,586/mo
Residents’ average commute
24 min
State income tax
None
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

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About Texas Children's Hospital

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Houston, TX
10,000+ employees

Benefits & Perks

Academic appointment with Baylor College of Medicine
Opportunities in teaching, quality improvement, research, mentorship, and program development