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Principal Applied Scientist (Healthcare AI)

Unlock employer Dubai, United Arab Emirates Posted: 17 Feb 2026

Financial

  • Estimate: $120k - $150k*
  • Zero income tax location

Accessibility

  • Apply from abroad
  • Visa Provided

Requirements

  • Experience: Senior
  • English: Professional

Position

Building off our Cloud momentum, the company has formed a new organization - Health & AI. This team will focus on product development and product strategy for Health, while building out a complete platform supporting modernized, automated healthcare. As our Principal Applied Scientist, you will play a key role in shaping the future of AI at the company, with an emphasis on Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI. Your contributions will be pivotal in delivering our new Generative AI-powered solutions for healthcare and enterprise customers.

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Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with product managers to translate business and product requirements into AI projects.
  • Collaborate with fellow technical leaders to ensure the successful and timely delivery of models and integration of services.
  • Coordinate with multinational teams to drive projects from research POC to production.
  • Develop new healthcare and enterprise services and features leveraging recent advances in generative AI, machine learning and deep learning.
  • Design and review the architecture of AI solutions, employing best practices.
  • Lead and mentor both junior and senior applied scientists.
  • Develop production code and advocate for the best coding and engineering practices.
  • Participate in project planning, review, and retrospective sessions.
  • Identify and mitigate risks in our plans and executions, especially at the intersection of business and engineering.

Qualifications and Experience

  • Demonstrated experience in designing and implementing scalable AI models for production.
  • Deep technical understanding of Machine Learning, Deep Learning architectures like Transformers, training methods, and optimizers.
  • Practical experience with the latest technologies in LLM and generative AI, such as parameter-efficient fine-tuning and advanced prompt engineering techniques.
  • Hands-on experience with emerging LLM frameworks and plugins, such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, and LLMOps.
  • Proven experience in designing data collection/annotation solutions and systematic evaluation necessary for developing and maintaining production systems.
  • Strong publication record, including as a lead author or reviewer, in top-tier journals or conferences.
  • Experienced leading senior scientists and early-career scientists.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Knowledge of healthcare and experience delivering healthcare AI models.
  • Familiarity with the latest advancements in computer vision and multimodal modeling.

Education

  • PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Linguistics, or a related field with a dissertation, thesis, or final project centered in Machine Learning and Deep Learning with 3+ years relevant experience is preferred; OR a Master’s or Bachelor’s in a related field with 5+ years relevant experience.
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