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Job Description
AI Scientist – Modern AI Applications
The Impact You’ll Make in this Role
As a Principal AI Scientist with deep expertise in Agentic AI, Generative AI, and Natural Language Understanding (NLU), you will lead high-impact technical innovation in HIS applications. In this role, you will be a hands-on research and development leader - driving technical breakthroughs, designing novel AI architectures, and directly influencing the integration of advanced AI into mission-critical healthcare products. You will collaborate closely with other scientists, engineers, and domain experts to create solutions that are explainable, reliable, and transformative for healthcare operations.
Key Responsibilities
Research & Innovation
- Design, prototype, and evaluate novel AI models for autonomous, agent-based systems in healthcare workflows.
- Advance state-of-the-art NLU for clinical, operational, and administrative healthcare text.
- Explore and implement new capabilities in reasoning, decision-making, and multi-modal understanding.
Healthcare-Focused AI Development
- Adapt and fine-tune large language models to handle healthcare-specific language, regulatory requirements, and ethical considerations.
- Create AI pipelines that can process structured and unstructured healthcare data (FHIR, HL7, clinical notes, claims data).
- Contribute to domain-specific model architectures that improve clinical decision-making, revenue cycle management, and patient engagement.
Technical Leadership
- Serve as the primary technical authority on Agentic and Generative AI within project teams.
- Mentor junior AI scientists and engineers through code reviews, research guidance, and technical workshops.
- Drive internal knowledge-sharing on emerging AI trends, frameworks, and best practices.
Operational & Compliance Excellence
- Implement rigorous model evaluation frameworks for accuracy, robustness, and fairness.
- Ensure compliance with healthcare privacy and data security regulations (HIPAA, HITRUST).
- Partner with engineering to move research prototypes into production environments.
Required Qualifications
- PhD or Master’s in Computer Science, AI, Machine Learning, or related field.
- 5+ years of experience in AI/ML, with a strong portfolio of deployed models.
- Proficiency in Python, R, and modern ML libraries.
- Experience with GenAI, LLMs, and transformer architectures.
- Skilled with AI development tools and frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, LangChain, RAG systems).
- Hands-on experience with autonomous AI agents and reasoning systems.
- Strong track record applying AI to healthcare or life sciences use cases.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS) and MLOps practices.
Preferred Skills
- Multi-modal AI research experience (text, image, structured data).
- Knowledge graph integration and symbolic reasoning expertise.
- Proven ability to take AI research from concept to production.
Work location: Bangalore Hybrid
Supporting Your Well-being
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