Principal Applied Scientist

Overview

Job description

Oracle Health and AI (OHIA) is harnessing the power of AI to revolutionize healthcare, from automating clinical workflows to advancing precision medicine. At Oracle, you’ll play a pivotal role in developing cutting-edge AI solutions that have a meaningful impact on the lives of millions. The Oracle Health and AI group is on a mission to change how healthcare data is processed, interpreted, and leveraged to improve patient outcomes. We are looking for an Applied Scientist to lead applied research and develop production LLM and Generative AI solutions that integrate with clinical workflows. The ideal candidate will have a solid publication record in top-tier venues, a robust engineering background, and a passion for designing, evaluating, and deploying state-of-the-art solutions to address real-world healthcare challenges.

Responsibilities

• Design, train, evaluate, and deploy novel LLM-based solutions for real-world healthcare problems, including clinical summarization, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and agentic workflows.
• Research and develop novel techniques to advance model quality, latency, interpretability, safety, and robustness in the clinical domain.
• Collaborate closely with product, engineering, clinical, and design partners to translate complex healthcare needs into production AI systems that drive measurable outcomes.
• Stay at the forefront of research in large language models, agentic systems, retrieval, multimodal learning, and healthcare AI, and rapidly translate insights into prototypes and production features.
• Publish research results at top-tier conferences and journals, and contribute to the broader scientific community through open-source contributions and thought leadership.
• Advocate for responsible AI development, ensuring fairness, transparency, and patient safety in all AI solutions.
• Mentor other team members and help shape the team’s technical direction and best practices.

Qualifications

Required:

• PhD or Master’s in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Computational Linguistics, Statistics, or related field, with 3+ years of experience in machine learning and NLP.
• Deep expertise in large language models, including pretraining, fine-tuning, alignment, prompt engineering, and evaluation methodologies.
• Experience building and deploying LLM-powered applications in production environments, with strong programming skills in Python and modern ML frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow.

Preferred:

• Experience with retrieval-augmented generation, agent frameworks, and multi-step reasoning systems.
• Experience working with healthcare data, clinical NLP, or medical imaging.
• Experience with distributed training and inference optimization for large-scale models.
• Publications in top-tier venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, Nature, Science, or similar.

Oracle is a cloud technology company that provides organizations worldwide with computing infrastructure and software to help them innovate, unlock efficiencies, and become more effective. Oracle also provides industry-specific cloud application suites for more than two dozen industries and NetSuite, the world’s first cloud ERP. Today, 430,000 customers in 175 countries use Oracle technologies to invent, realize, and succeed.

Oracle Health and AI is a team of leading experts in clinical, behavioral, and data science, united by a vision to improve patient outcomes, lower costs, and reduce clinician burnout. At the intersection of healthcare and technology, we harness data and AI to unlock new possibilities for patients and providers. With Oracle’s comprehensive cloud infrastructure and robust AI capabilities, we empower healthcare systems, payers, and life sciences companies to innovate at scale.

What we can offer you: competitive salary, bonus, and equity. A world-class team. A global reach and a collaborative work environment. The opportunity to create the next generation of AI-powered healthcare products.

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $126,200 to $264,100 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Sponsorship is not available for this position.

Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law. Which includes being a United States Affirmative Action Employer.

AI usage: Oracle uses AI to help process applications, provide assessments, and screen candidates. It is our policy to use AI only to assist, not make final decisions, and you will have the opportunity to work with a human at each stage of the process. If you are interested in joining us, please apply and your application will be processed through our recruitment system. If your application is unsuccessful, it will be retained for 12 months.