ITA - Milan - Trinita, Italy
Onsite
Do you want a job with a purpose?
And do you want to make healthcare safer, better and more reliable?
Join our Team!
Join us as a Technical AI Lead at Dedalus, one of the World’s leading healthcare technology companies, based remotely in any of our European locations to do the best work of your career and make a profound impact in providing better care for a healthier planet.
As the Technical AI Lead you will provide strategic and hands-on technical leadership across our AI product portfolio and internal AI initiatives. This senior role is responsible for overseeing a team of data scientists, machine learning engineers, and AI researchers, and for ensuring that the organisation's AI work meets the highest standards of rigour, quality, and consistency—from research through to production. .
The successful candidate will be a practitioner-leader: deeply technical, experienced in shipping AI-driven products at scale, and with the vision and communication skills to shape best practices and guide technical strategy across the organisation .
You will:
Lead and manage a global team of data scientists, ML engineers, and AI researchers, setting technical direction, ensuring quality, and fostering a strong culture.
Define and champion best practices, standards, and guidelines for AI assisted software development, including Agentic AI based product development.
Contribute to AI partner vetting and technical due diligence for third-party AI platforms, vendors, and research collaborators, assessing technical fit, scalability, and risk.
Ensure technical consistency across AI initiatives by collaborating with the Integrated Solutions Team
Collaborate closely with Product Managers and Engineering leads at a global scale to translate product requirements into robust, scalable technical solutions and to advise on feasibility.
Stay at the forefront of AI research developments—including large language models, multimodal AI, and agentic systems—and assess their applicability to the organisation's products and processes.
Communicate technical progress, risks, and strategy to key stakeholders
At Dedalus Life flows through our software. Every day we do something special by helping caregivers and health professionals deliver better care to their served communities. Take the next step in your career that will make a profound impact. Here’s what you’ll need to succeed:
Essential Requirements:
Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related technical field
Proven experience leading an AI technical team in a product-focused environment, taking AI solutions from research and conception through to production launch
Deep expertise in machine learning, deep learning, and modern AI development practices, with experience shipping AI-driven products at scale
Hands-on experience with AI-driven development workflows, including LLM-assisted development, agentic pipelines, or AI-augmented SDLC.
Hands on experience and understanding of multi-agentic flows and the infrastructure required to enable them
Strong proficiency with the modern ML stack (e.g. Python, PyTorch/TensorFlow, Hugging Face, cloud platforms) and tools such as Claude code
Demonstrated ability to define and enforce AI governance practices including model evaluation, bias assessment, and production monitoring
Excellent leadership, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Native English speaker or C1/C2 English certification
Desirable Requirements:
Experience in AI native company
Experience in healthcare AI, with familiarity with clinical data environments, medical imaging, or genomics applications
Familiarity with AI safety, interpretability, and regulatory considerations as they apply to AI in high-stakes domains
Experience contributing to or reviewing AI technical publications, standards bodies, or open-source AI frameworks
We are Dedalus, come join us
Dedalus is committed to providing an engaging, rewarding work experience that reflects the passion our employees bring to our mission of helping clinicians and nurses deliver better care to their served communities.
Our company fosters a culture where employees are encouraged to learn and innovate, and to enable and enhance clinical co-operation and processes while making a meaningful difference for millions of people around the world. Each person is the end point and the starting point of the Group’s activities and the ultimate beneficiary. For this reason, we are so proud of doing our very special jobs each day.
Our company is enriched by a diverse population of 7,600 people in more than 40 countries that work together to innovate and drive better healthcare options for millions of patients around the world. We are the people of Dedalus.
Application closing date: 30th July 2026
At Dedalus, innovation starts with inclusion. As a company driven by our Core Values, we know diversity and inclusion are key enablers for us to succeed and grow. Our international footprint connects people from across the globe and we are committed to celebrating diverse backgrounds, skills, experiences and creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. ‘Pursuing Diversity and Inclusion’ is one of our Core Values and a part of our ‘Dedalus DNA’, which drives us to build a respectful, diverse, and inclusive environment by recognising the unique needs, perspectives, and potential of all members of our community. Dedalus is proud to promote diversity, inclusion, equity, and equality and is committed to creating a safe and inclusive culture where we celebrate diversity in all forms and empower everyone to be the best they can be.
Our diversity & inclusion commitment – Dedalus Global
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