Senior AI/ML Engineer, IQVIA
Health IT and clinical research company
Open for applications
Health IT and clinical research company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be a catalyst for innovation in healthcare, to drive healthcare forward every day, and make the extraordinary possible for patients.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of industry experience in AI/NLP, with a strong track record of delivering production‑grade solutions
- Strong proficiency in Python for ML and NLP; experience with Go, Rust, or Java is a plus
- Solid software engineering fundamentals and experience integrating ML systems into large‑scale production environments
- Deep expertise in supervised and unsupervised learning, deep learning, and NLP
- Experience deploying, monitoring, and maintaining production ML/NLP systems
- Ability to clearly communicate complex technical concepts to cross‑functional teams
- Strategic mindset for data science product planning under uncertainty
- Holistic understanding of end‑to‑end ML pipelines within broader system architectures
- Strong problem‑solving and critical thinking skills
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior AI Engineer who is passionate about transforming healthcare through cutting‑edge technology. In this role, you will make hands‑on contributions to the design, development, and deployment of advanced Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) solutions powering Patient Finder
- You’ll work on high‑impact initiatives including Generative AI, Named Entity Recognition and Linking (NER/NEL), multilingual NLP, and continuous learning on complex healthcare datasets. This is a unique opportunity to help define the future of AI in healthcare, with deep technical ownership and end‑to‑end responsibility for production‑grade ML solutions
- Design, build, and maintain robust, scalable ML and NLP solutions for production environments
- Contribute hands‑on to the codebase, implementing high‑quality, production‑ready AI systems
- Collaborate closely with cross‑functional engineering teams to ensure seamless integration of AI components with our search engine and data warehouse
- Apply best practices in software engineering, including testing, observability, and CI/CD for ML systems
- Support the internationalization and localization of NLP components across multiple languages
- Work with the Product Owner and engineering stakeholders to translate business requirements into high‑quality ML deliverables
- Research, evaluate, and apply state‑of‑the‑art NLP and ML methodologies
- Share expertise with peers, contribute to knowledge‑sharing sessions, and informally mentor junior engineers
Our take
IQVIA is a world leader in analytics and clinical research in the life sciences sector. Formed from a merger between IMS Health and Quintiles, it has over 40 years of experience in the sector, growing to become one of the world’s largest contract research organisations, with a network spanning more than 100 countries.
Since its founding, IQVIA has outperformed the market and is focusing on expanding biosimilar firms such as Humira. Humira provides generic drugs from existing medications without needing further data analysis. However, IQVIA’s involvement in new areas of research is likely to offset this trend.
With global medicine spending on track to reach £2.6 trillion by 2030, IQVIA is focusing its efforts on oncology and immunology, the most profitable sectors in pharmaceutical development. It is also building out its technological infrastructure, with a particular focus on artificial intelligence. While it is frank about the limitations of this technology within the sector, it greatly augments the data-handling capabilities of health science teams. Development in this sector is key to IQVIA’s growth plans, which are on track with Q1 2026 seeing an 8.4% increase in year-on-year revenue.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jun 2013
$1m
GRANT
Total funding: $1m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental and vision coverage
- Telemedicine
- Critical illness coverage
- Prescription coverage
- Disability, accidental death, pet and life insurance
- Employee Assistance Programs
- Mental health support
- Well-being programs and events
- Flexible work environment
- Time off for leisure, personal time and corporate holidays
- Parental leave for birth or adoption
- Paid leave for other life matters (i.e., illness, bereavement, jury duty, military service, etc.)
- Training systems
- AI talent marketplace tool
- Leadership training programs
- Employee recognition programs
- Mentorship programs
- Service awards
- Tuition reimbursement
- Paid volunteer day
- Donation matching
- Employee resource groups
- Office events
- Environmental commitments
- UN Global Impact member
- Retirement and savings plans
- Identity theft protection
- Commuter benefits
Company HQ
Research Triangle, Durham, NC
Leadership
Ari Bousbib
(CEO & Chairman)Was previously CEO of IMS Health, one of the parent companies of IQVIA. Before that held senior leadership positions at United Technologies Company, including COO of Otis and eventually becoming President of the UTC group with responsibility for 150,000 employees.
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