Principal Data Scientist – Digital Health
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Job Summary
At Alcon we are driven by the meaningful work we do to help people see brilliantly. We innovate boldly champion progress and act with speed as the global leader in eye care. Here youll be recognized for your commitment and contributions and see your career like never before. Together we go above and beyond to make an impact in the lives of our patients and customers.
We foster an inclusive culture and are looking for diverse talented people to join Alcon. As a Principal Data Scientist within Digital Health Data Science you will be trusted to lead high-impact data science initiatives and deliver AI-driven solutions that help transform the eye care industry. This role blends hands-on technical execution with technical leadership across Generative AI (LLMs) agentic workflows/AI agents and classical machine learning. You will build and operationalize solutions in an AWS environment leveraging services such as Amazon Bedrock Amazon SageMaker AWS Lambda Amazon ECS/EKS and Amazon Redshift along with other AWS services as needed.
You will work in an agile environment partnering with product managers data engineers software engineers and business stakeholders to deliver scalable reliable and secure AI capabilities and applications.
Key Responsibilities (what youll do):
- Lead and execute end-to-end data science projects ensuring timely delivery and measurable business impact.
- Design and deliver GenAI/LLM systems (e.g. RAG summarization classification insight generation) and implement evaluation methods to ensure quality safety and reliability.
- Build agentic AI solutions (tool-using agents multi-step workflows orchestration patterns) that automate tasks and enhance decision-making using structured and unstructured data.
- Apply numerical optimization and classical ML techniques as needed (e.g. time series/forecasting computer vision NLP anomaly detection optimization) to support a broad portfolio of use cases.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business needs into technical requirements solution designs and actionable outcomes.
- Implement scalable architectures in AWS including model development and deployment on Amazon SageMaker LLM integrations via Amazon Bedrock event-driven components using AWS Lambda containerized services on ECS/EKS and analytics/data access via Amazon Redshift.
- Contribute to MLOps/LLMOps practices such as CI/CD model/version management automated testing monitoring drift detection and governance to support production-grade AI.
- Mentor and coach junior data scientists promoting best practices in experimentation modeling engineering quality and stakeholder communication.
- Evaluate emerging AI methods and tools recommending practical approaches to improve solution effectiveness and organizational capability.
What Youll Bring to Alcon (basic qualifications):
- Bachelors Degree or equivalent years of directly related experience (or high school 15 yrs; Associate 11 yrs; M.S. 4 yrs; PhD 3 yrs).
- Ability to fluently read write understand and communicate in English.
- Significant relevant experience delivering applied ML/AI solutions in business settings.
- Strong programming skills in Python; experience with SQL and data processing at scale.
Preferred Skills and Experience:
- Strong foundation in a quantitative discipline (Data Science Statistics Computer Science Engineering or similar).
- Hands-on experience with GenAI/LLM application development such as:
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) embeddings prompt engineering tool/function calling
Evaluation frameworks (quality hallucination mitigation safety/guardrails) - Knowledge/Experience building agentic systems (planning/execution loops multi-agent coordination workflow orchestration tool integration).
- Experience with production ML systems and MLOps/LLMOps including monitoring observability governance and secure deployment.
- Practical experience in AWS.
- Strong collaboration skills with data engineering software engineering and product teams in an agile delivery model.
- Experience in healthcare medical devices or regulated environments is a plus.
How You Can Thrive at Alcon:
- See your career like never before with focused growth and development opportunities.
- Join Alcons mission to provide outstanding innovative products and solutions to improve sight and improve lives.
- Alcon provides a robust benefits package including health life retirement and paid time off and more.
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Alcon is an Equal Opportunity Employer and takes pride in maintaining a diverse environment. We do not discriminate in recruitment hiring training promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race color religion gender national origin age sexual orientation gender identity marital status disability or any other reason.
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Key Skills
- Machine Learning
- Python
- Data Science
- AI
- R
- Research Experience
- Sensors
- Drug Discovery
- Research & Development
- Natural Language Processing
- Data Analysis Skills
- Toxicology Experience
About Company
Our mission is to provide innovative vision products that enhance quality of life by helping people see better. From vision research to eye health, learn more at Alcon.com.
