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
gillian.nicholson@collinsmcnicholas.ie
(090) 6450665
