Overview
Solventum is a new healthcare company with a long legacy of solving big challenges that improve lives and help healthcare professionals perform at their best. We pursue empathic, clinically intelligent solutions by collaborating with experts across healthcare to address our customers’ toughest challenges.
We enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives through breakthroughs at the intersection of health, materials, and data science. Our work aims to make healthcare operations more explainable, reliable, and transformative.
The Impact You’ll Make in this Role
As a Principal AI Scientist with deep expertise in Agentic AI, Generative AI, and Natural Language Understanding (NLU), you will lead high-impact technical innovation in HIS applications. You will be a hands-on research and development leader, driving technical breakthroughs, designing novel AI architectures, and influencing the integration of advanced AI into mission-critical healthcare products. You will collaborate with scientists, engineers, and domain experts to create solutions that are explainable, reliable, and transformative for healthcare operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, prototype, and evaluate novel AI models for autonomous, agent-based systems in healthcare workflows.
- Advance state-of-the-art NLU for clinical, operational, and administrative healthcare text.
- Explore and implement capabilities in reasoning, decision-making, and multi-modal understanding.
Healthcare-Focused AI Development
- Adapt and fine-tune large language models to handle healthcare-specific language, regulatory requirements, and ethical considerations.
- Create AI pipelines that process structured and unstructured healthcare data (FHIR, HL7, clinical notes, claims data).
- Contribute to domain-specific model architectures that improve clinical decision-making, revenue cycle management, and patient engagement.
Technical Leadership
- Serve as the primary technical authority on Agentic and Generative AI within project teams.
- Mentor junior AI scientists and engineers through code reviews, research guidance, and technical workshops.
- Drive internal knowledge-sharing on emerging AI trends, frameworks, and best practices.
Operational & Compliance Excellence
- Implement rigorous model evaluation frameworks for accuracy, robustness, and fairness.
- Ensure compliance with healthcare privacy and data security regulations (HIPAA, HITRUST).
- Partner with engineering to move research prototypes into production environments.
Required Qualifications
Your Skills and Expertise
- PhD or Master’s in Computer Science, AI, Machine Learning, or related field.
- 5+ years of experience in AI/ML, with a strong portfolio of deployed models.
- Proficiency in Python, R, and modern ML libraries.
- Experience with GenAI, LLMs, and transformer architectures.
- Skilled with AI development tools and frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, LangChain, RAG systems).
- Hands-on experience with autonomous AI agents and reasoning systems.
- Strong track record applying AI to healthcare or life sciences use cases.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS) and MLOps practices.
Preferred Skills
- Multi-modal AI research experience (text, image, structured data).
- Knowledge graph integration and symbolic reasoning expertise.
- Proven ability to take AI research from concept to production.
Work location
- Hybrid in Wroclaw, Poland
Travel
May include up to 10%
Eligibility
Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status.
Supporting Your Well-being & Diversity
Solventum offers programs to help you live your best life, with competitive pay and benefits. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, civil status, disability, family status, or membership of the travelling community.
Solventum is committed to maintaining the highest standards of integrity in our recruitment process. Please be aware of fraudulent postings and ensure email communications come from the solventum.com domain. Your application may require education and work history information (resume upload or entry in application fields).
Seniority level
Employment type
Job function
- Engineering and Information Technology
- Industries: Medical Equipment Manufacturing
