Principal AI Data Scientist

Our client a global healthcare technology organisation is seeking a Principal AI Data Scientist to drive cutting-edge innovation across generative AI, agentic systems, and natural language understanding.

This is a rare opportunity to join a newly evolving healthcare technology environment with strong backing, ambitious growth plans, and a deep legacy of innovation across data, materials, and clinical science.

You will play a pivotal role in shaping next-generation AI solutions that improve patient outcomes, enhance clinical decision-making, and transform healthcare operations globally.

The Role

As a senior technical leader and hands on innovator, you will design and deliver advanced AI models and architectures that power intelligent healthcare applications. You will work at the intersection of research and real world deployment, ensuring solutions are reliable, explainable, and compliant within regulated healthcare environments.

This position offers strong technical ownership, cross functional collaboration, and the opportunity to influence enterprise AI strategy.

Key Responsibilities Innovation & Advanced AI Research

• Design and prototype next generation AI models for autonomous and agent based healthcare systems
• Advance natural language understanding across clinical, operational, and administrative datasets
• Explore new approaches in reasoning, decision intelligence, and multimodal AI
• Evaluate emerging technologies and integrate state of the art methods into scalable solutions

Applied AI Development (Healthcare Focus)

• Fine tune and optimise large language models for healthcare terminology, compliance, and ethical use
• Build AI pipelines to process structured and unstructured healthcare data (FHIR, HL7, clinical notes, claims)
• Develop domain specific AI architectures supporting clinical decision making, revenue cycle optimisation, and patient engagement
• Ensure all models are explainable, responsible, and aligned with healthcare standards and regulations

Technical Leadership & Collaboration

• Serve as the subject matter expert for generative, agentic, and applied AI across projects
• Mentor and support AI scientists and engineers through code reviews, research guidance, and technical workshops
• Drive internal knowledge sharing on emerging AI frameworks, tools, and best practices
• Partner closely with engineering teams to transition research innovations into production ready systems

AI Governance, Quality & Deployment

• Establish robust model evaluation frameworks for accuracy, fairness, reliability, and performance
• Ensure adherence to healthcare data privacy, security, and regulatory requirements
• Support secure, scalable deployment of AI solutions within cloud and production environments

Required Experience & Skills

• MSc or PhD in Computer Science, AI, Machine Learning, or related discipline
• 5+ years' experience delivering AI/ML solutions in production environments
• Strong programming skills in Python (R beneficial)
• Expertise in Generative AI, LLMs, and transformer architectures
• Hands on experience with frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, LangChain, and RAG systems
• Experience with autonomous/agentic AI systems and reasoning frameworks
• Proven application of AI within healthcare or life sciences
• Familiarity with AWS/cloud platforms and MLOps practices

Why Apply?

• Work on high impact AI transforming global healthcare delivery
• Lead innovation in generative and agentic AI within a regulated, real world setting
• Collaborate with world class scientists, engineers, and healthcare experts
• Hybrid Dublin based role with strong career progression and technical ownership
• Opportunity to shape the AI strategy of a rapidly evolving healthcare technology organisation

If you are interested in a confidential discussion about this position contact Gillian Nicholson