Oracle Life Sciences is focused on delivering software solutions to help the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies positively impact people’s lives by supporting the cost-effective development of treatments for today’s most challenging health-related issues.
We are looking for hands-on Applied Scientists with expertise and passion in solving difficult problems in life sciences. We intend to revolutionize the life sciences industry by leveraging AI/ML and Generative AI and redefine customer experience.
This is a greenfield opportunity to design and build new AI native cloud applications from the ground up. You will be part of a team of hard-working, motivated, and diverse individuals, given the autonomy as well as support to do your best work. It is a dynamic and flexible workplace where you’ll belong and be encouraged. We operate with a startup mindset. We’re working on big goals, and we need talented folks with equally big ambitions. Join us!
About the Job
We're seeking a highly skilled Senior Principal Applied Scientist to modernize Oracle Life Sciences Safety One portfolio with AI native applications. As a Senior Principal Applied Scientist specializing in AI/ML, you will play a pivotal role in architecting, developing, and deploying state-of-the-art models to power our SafetyOne product suite. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including product managers, software engineers, and data scientists to unlock machine learning capabilities in all our products. Our new platform will be built directly on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) based on cloud native principles.
Responsibilities
- Work with Engineering team for training data acquisition and data analysis.
- Define and follow the process for ML use case evaluation and planning.
- Design, develop, and optimize RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) models to facilitate effective information retrieval and integration of structured data, ontologies, knowledge graphs, or other forms of structured knowledge representation.
- Utilize vector databases and advanced indexing techniques to efficiently store and retrieve relevant information for conversational contexts.
- Explore, fine-tune, and optimize large language models such as Cohere for specific use cases in the life sciences.
- Evaluate model performance, interpret results, experiment with various training strategies, and domain-specific fine-tuning to improve accuracy and efficiency.
- Implement and experiment with cutting-edge NLP, NLU, and NLG techniques to solve various use cases.
- Collaborate with engineers to integrate machine learning models into production systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.
- Interact with product and service teams to identify questions and issues for data analysis and experiments.
- Develop and code software programs, algorithms, and automated processes to cleanse, integrate and evaluate large datasets from multiple disparate sources.
- Identify meaningful insights from large data and metadata sources; interpret and communicate insights and findings from analysis and experiments to product, service, and business managers.
Qualifications
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related experience.
- 10+ years of experience in data science.
- Strong programming skills in Python, SQL, and proficiency with machine learning libraries such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or R.
- Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, OCI) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
- Solid understanding of NLP fundamentals and experience with NLU/NLG techniques such as sentiment analysis, entity recognition, and text generation.
- Preference for expertise in developing RAG models, working with vector databases, and fine-tuning large language models.
- Experience in life sciences and healthcare domain and experience in a complex global organization is a plus.
- Excellent problem-solving abilities and a pragmatic approach to building scalable and robust machine learning systems.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- You are comfortable with ambiguity, have a strong sense of ownership, can define your own workplan, set goals for others, and drive projects to completion.
- You are excited to learn new technologies and stay on the cutting edge of what’s possible.
- You’ve taken a product or platform from 0 to 1, you know what it takes to launch something.
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: from $139,300 to $291,900 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.
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.
Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion.
- Short-term disability and long-term disability.
- Life insurance and AD&D.
- Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts.
- Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits.
- 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match.
- Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position.
- 11 paid holidays.
- Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire.
- Paid parental leave.
- Adoption assistance.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Financial planning and group legal.
- 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.
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