Senior Applied Scientist - Gen AI

Oracle Healthcare Data Intelligence (HDI) is at the forefront of leveraging data and AI to transform the healthcare and life sciences industries. Our team is dedicated to solving complex challenges in healthcare by developing innovative solutions using Generative AI, natural language processing (NLP), and large language models (LLMs). This role is perfect for a hands-on applied scientist who’s passionate about building and optimizing models in the healthcare space. You’ll help design and implement new AI tools that can enhance care delivery, support providers, and make health systems smarter.

Your Role
As a Senior Applied Scientist, you’ll work closely with other scientists, engineers, and product teams to build and evaluate AI models for real healthcare and biological problems. You will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to design, build, and deploy scalable models and systems that enhance clinical decision-making, optimize operational workflows, and deliver meaningful insights from complex healthcare data.
 

Career Level - IC3

What You’ll Do
Modeling and Development:
 

• Fine-tune and evaluate large language models (LLMs), small language models, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines.
• Contribute to the design and development of AI solutions for use cases like summarizing clinical documents, surfacing patient insights, and supporting care decisions.
• Use tools like LangChain or other modular AI frameworks to experiment with agentic behaviors in workflows.

Evaluation and Optimization:
 

• Help build model evaluation frameworks focused on healthcare-specific performance, semantic accuracy, and safety.
• Analyze model performance and iterate based on feedback and evaluation results.

Collaboration and Integration:
 

• Work with product, engineering, and design teams to bring your models into Oracle's healthcare and life sciences platforms.
• Support integration of models into secure and compliant healthcare environments.

Innovation and Learning:
 

• Stay up to date with recent developments in generative AI and NLP, especially in healthcare and life sciences.
• Propose and prototype new ideas that could lead to better healthcare tools and experiences.

What You’ll Bring
Education:
 

• PhD in Computer Science, NLP, Machine Learning, or a related field; OR
• Master’s degree with 4+ years of relevant experience in applied AI/ML.

Experience:
 

• Experience training or fine-tuning LLMs or small language models.
• Experience in developing and evaluating LLM Agents for real-world problems
• Familiarity with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), LangChain, or similar tools.
• Hands-on experience applying AI/ML in healthcare and/or bioinformatics is a plus.

Skills:
 

• Strong understanding of machine learning, NLP, and deep learning techniques.
• Comfortable working with Python, TensorFlow/PyTorch, and open-source LLM tools.
• Familiarity with bioinformatics resources and tools
• Good communication skills and ability to collaborate across technical teams.

Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $97,500 to $199,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle’s differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

Career Level - IC3

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