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Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Clinical - AI Teams (x/f/m)
AI / ML Engineer
• Principal
• On-site
• Full-time
• 📍 Paris
Doctolib is looking for a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer to join the Clinical team in the AI and Machine Learning Department. You will lead the technical direction of AI systems that enhance clinical decision-making and patient care, tackling the hardest problems in healthcare AI — from voice-powered consultation assistants to LLM evaluation frameworks ensuring clinical safety and efficacy. The role combines deep R&D with strategic technical leadership in regulated healthcare environments. The position is permanent, full-time, based in Paris with a hybrid mode of 3 office days per week.
Responsibilities
- ▹Own the long-term technical roadmap for clinical ML systems, from model architecture selection to production deployment patterns
- ▹Drive strategic build vs. buy decisions, balancing custom development with foundation model APIs
- ▹Define standards for safe rollout in healthcare contexts: shadow testing, staged deployment and human-in-the-loop workflows
- ▹Lead design and implementation of LLM-powered clinical agents (consultation summarization, clinical coding, evidence-grounded recommendations)
- ▹Establish rigorous evaluation frameworks using real-world clinical datasets, ensuring outputs meet clinical accuracy and safety standards
- ▹Build production infrastructure: model and prompt versioning, guardrails, uncertainty quantification, cost optimization and observability
- ▹Define a bold strategy for online and offline performance objectives to raise healthcare professionals' satisfaction
- ▹Mentor Staff or Senior ML Engineers and Applied Scientists, elevating technical standards across the organization
- ▹Lead cross-functional initiatives spanning Product, Medical Affairs, Legal and Compliance teams
- ▹Translate clinical needs into research questions and production systems that measurably improve patient outcomes
- ▹Partner with medical, legal and compliance teams to meet EU regulatory expectations (GDPR, MDR, upcoming EU AI Act) and market standards
Requirements
- ▹10+ years in ML/AI, with 3+ years at Staff+ or Principal level leading complex, multi-team technical initiatives
- ▹PhD in Computer Science, AI, Statistics or a related field (or equivalent research experience)
- ▹Deep expertise in at least two of: clinical NLP, LLM fine-tuning and evaluation, automatic speech recognition, RAG systems, or reinforcement learning
- ▹Expert in Python and PyTorch/Transformers for training, vLLM or similar for inference, with a track record of deploying ML systems in production (AWS/GCP)
- ▹Exceptional communication skills, able to align diverse stakeholders and explain complex technical decisions
Nice to have
- ▹Publications in top-tier ML/AI conferences (NeurIPS, ICLR, ACL) or medical informatics venues
- ▹Experience with EU healthcare regulations (GDPR, MDR, AI Act)
- ▹Prior work with clinical data or healthcare applications
Soft skills
Exceptional communication skillsAbility to align diverse stakeholdersMentoring
What we offer
- ▹Free comprehensive health insurance for you and your children
- ▹Parent Care Program: one additional month of leave on top of legal parental leave
- ▹Free mental health and coaching services through Moka.care
- ▹Package for caregivers and workers with disabilities (adapted remote policy, extra days off for medical reasons, psychological support)
- ▹Work from abroad for up to 10 days per year (flexibility days policy)
- ▹Work council subsidy for sport club membership or creative classes
- ▹Up to 14 days of RTT
- ▹Lunch voucher with Swile card
About the company
Doctolib is committed to improving access to healthcare for everyone and evaluates candidates based solely on qualifications and motivation, without any form of discrimination.
Education: PhD számítástechnika, AI, statisztika vagy kapcsolódó területen (vagy egyenértékű kutatási tapasztalat)