Senior AI Scientist - GenAI/LLM

Senior AI Scientist

Advanced NLP, DTA&AI (Data Transformation, Automation & AI)

London/Hybrid

Our Advanced NLP team is a fast-growing group of collaborative, enthusiastic, and entrepreneurial AI experts within the IQVIA NLP organisation. We are at the centre of IQVIA NLP’s pursuit of using state-of-the-art machine learning methods to help customers leverage the value of unstructured patient data, social media and scientific literature, impacting pharmaceutical/MedTech development and care delivery from Bench to Bedside.

We are seeking a Senior AI Scientist to join our team of advanced researchers and engineers working to evaluate emerging techniques, develop novel approaches and prototype them ahead of incorporation in our platforms. This is an exciting opportunity to leverage your deep expertise in GenAI and LLMs to provide technical guidance and hands-on support as clients adopt GenAI/LLM solutions.

In this role, you will collaborate closely with clients and cross-functional teams, taking a hands-on approach to rapidly prototype, iteratively build, comprehensively test, and seamlessly deploy innovative products powered by GenAI/LLM technology at scale. Your responsibilities will also include blending research insights, technical skills, and business acumen to swiftly assess viability and translate cutting-edge concepts into client-ready deliverables. As a key team member, you will architect, develop, validate, and contribute to shipping polished solutions from proof-of-concept to full production launch.

Essential Functions

• Partner with internal and external clients to understand business needs, ideate LLM-powered solutions that deliver value, and implement solution development.
• Research, design, build, and train innovative applications of LLMs to solve complex real-world problems.
• Conduct research and experiments to evaluate viability of proposed LLM implementations.
• Design prototypes and POCs to demonstrate solution feasibility and value.
• Lead build-out of production-ready LLM solutions, collaborating cross-functionally.
• Oversee rigorous testing and validation of LLM products before client delivery.
• Provide technical guidance to clients adopting LLM technologies.
• Monitor latest advances in generative AI to identify new opportunities for clients.
• Mentor and share knowledge with other team members on LLM best practices.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to LLM products in client environments.
• Communicate compellingly about LLM capabilities and limitations to manage expectations.

Qualifications

• Advanced Degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Physics, Math, or related field.
• Extensive hands-on experience using libraries such as HuggingFace Transformers, PyTorch, and TensorFlow.
• Applied research background leveraging frameworks such as LangChain to build LLM prototypes, and knowledge of software engineering best practices for production LLM development.
• Ability to clearly communicate complex LLM capabilities and limitations to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience working with large, real world datasets.

Essential Personal Skills and Behaviors

• Excellent interpersonal and verbal communication skills
• A commitment to working collaboratively and effectively with others in and across the team to accomplish goals
• A commitment to timely internal and client communication; with clients, IQVIA project managers and team members, IQVIA colleagues and others 
• Proven time management and personal organisational skills
• Lean experience desirable
• Change management experience desirable

The Team

IQVIA NLP is a leading provider of Natural Language Processing solutions focused on Human Data Science. NLP is a foundational technique for AI and ML and a critical enabler for IQVIA’s Connected Intelligence solutions and the delivery of clinical trials and studies. IQVIA NLP is an acknowledged leader in this space with a global customer base spanning Major Pharma companies, Healthcare Payers & Providers and Government.

By using NLP, IQVIA and its customers leverage the value of unstructured patient data, social media and scientific literature, impacting pharmaceutical/MedTech development and care delivery from Bench to Bedside. In 2022, IQVIA launched its next generation Cloud and Data Science centric NLP platform which is expected to rapidly accelerate the technologies’ uptake. The platform includes our leading-edge multi-method NLP core, our market leading curation component and an enterprise class automation server for deployment in cloud or in enterprise.

The IQVIA NLP team is around 120 FTE worldwide. We collaborate closely with the wider DTA&AI team in the areas of graph technology, deidentification and predictive analytics and broadly across IQVIA.

Why Join?

Those who join us become part of a recognized global leader still willing to challenge the status quo to improve patient care. You will have access to the most cutting-edge technology, the largest data sets, the best analytics tools and, in our opinion, some of the finest minds in the Healthcare industry.

You can drive your career at IQVIA and choose the path that best defines your development and success. With exposure across diverse geographies, capabilities, and vast therapeutic and information and technology areas, you can seek opportunities to change and grow without boundaries.

Regardless of your role, we invite you to reimagine healthcare with us. You will have the opportunity to play an important part in helping our clients drive healthcare forward and ultimately improve human health outcomes.

It's an exciting time to join and reimagine what's possible in healthcare.

IQVIA is a strong advocate of diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We believe that a work environment that embraces diversity will give us a competitive advantage in the global marketplace and enhance our success. We believe that an inclusive and respectful workplace culture fosters a sense of belonging among our employees, builds a stronger team, and allows individual employees the opportunity to maximize their personal potential.

IQVIA is a leading global provider of advanced analytics, technology solutions and clinical research services to the life sciences industry. We believe in pushing the boundaries of human science and data science to make the biggest impact possible – to help our customers create a healthier world. Learn more at https://jobs.iqvia.com