Manager, Applied AI Science – Healthcare

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About the role

  • UBC pharmaceutical-services AI manager leading scientists and developing reusable, scientifically evaluated healthcare AI capabilities. Partnering across architecture, product, engineering, quality, and governance.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, mentor, and develop a small team of Applied AI Scientists
  • Provide technical and scientific guidance across the team's work
  • Design, develop, and refine reusable AI capabilities using machine learning, large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, AI agents, and approved enterprise AI technologies
  • Design solutions combining models, prompts, context, retrieval, tools, structured outputs, human review, and workflow integration
  • Design and execute scientific evaluations using representative datasets, reference standards, performance metrics, acceptance criteria, and statistical methods
  • Define expected behavior, analyze outputs and failure modes, assess uncertainty and limitations, and recommend evidence-based improvements
  • Develop maintainable Python code, analytical workflows, evaluation tools, and reusable software components
  • Collaborate with AI Architecture, Product Management, application teams, subject matter experts, Quality, and Governance
  • Ensure AI capabilities address operational needs and progress toward enterprise use
  • Stay current on advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistics, and evaluation methods
  • Contribute to evolving practices within the AI Center of Excellence
  • Hire, mentor, direct the work of, and manage performance for 2–5 Applied AI Scientists

Requirements

  • Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Biomedical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Computer Engineering, or a related quantitative discipline
  • Bachelor's degree in a related quantitative discipline with significant applied AI, machine learning, or statistical experience will also be considered
  • 5+ years of experience developing AI, machine learning, data science, or applied AI solutions in applied environments
  • Must have Healthcare/CRO experience
  • Familiarity with GxP, 21 CFR Part 11, HIPAA, GDPR, software validation, or related regulated-system expectations
  • Strong programming experience using Python, R, or a comparable language
  • Experience mentoring technical staff, leading scientific work, or providing technical direction across projects
  • Experience applying statistical methods, experimental design, or performance analysis to complex technical problems
  • Experience defining AI evaluation metrics, assessing the effectiveness of AI controls, and developing monitoring approaches for AI system performance and risk
  • Experience collaborating with software engineers, architects, product teams, and business stakeholders throughout the AI development lifecycle
  • Strong understanding of statistics, experimental design, sampling, machine learning, model validation, uncertainty, bias, and generalizability
  • Experience developing capabilities using large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, prompt and context design, AI agents, tool integration, and structured outputs
  • Experience developing evaluation datasets and reference standards, selecting appropriate metrics, defining acceptance criteria, and analyzing performance and failure modes
  • Strong programming skills with the ability to develop maintainable analytical software, AI capabilities, and evaluation tooling
  • Understanding of how models, data, retrieval, prompts, tools, human review, and workflow context combine to shape AI system behavior
  • Ability to document and communicate evaluation methods, assumptions, results, uncertainty, limitations, and recommendations
  • Ability to connect technical decisions to enterprise architecture, long-term reuse, scalability, and business strategy
  • Ability to translate operational needs and workflows into structured AI capabilities and measurable evaluation questions
  • Advanced ability to resolve complex architecture and engineering challenges through practical and maintainable solutions
  • Ability to communicate architectural concepts, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to executives, engineers, scientists, architects, and business stakeholders
  • Ability to work effectively across Product Management, AI Science, Application Development, Platform Engineering, DevOps, Security, Data, Quality, and business teams
  • Ability to evaluate emerging technologies and evolve architectural direction while maintaining engineering discipline and operational reliability

Benefits

  • Competitive salaries
  • Growth opportunities for promotion
  • RRSP with company match*
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Flexible work environment
  • Discretionary PTO (Paid Time Off)
  • Paid Holidays
  • Employee assistance programs
  • Medical, Dental, and vision coverage
  • Telemedicine (Virtual doctor appointments)
  • Wellness program
  • Adoption assistance
  • Short term disability
  • Long term disability
  • Life insurance
  • Discount programs

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

Python

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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