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

[email protected]

(090) 6450665