Healthcare AI Lead & Senior ML Architect

Doctolib; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free health insurance

25 vacation days

14 RTT days

Moka.care mental health

Abroad work up to 10 days

Lunch vouchers Swile

Sport club subsidy

Transport subsidy 50%

ParentCare program

DoctoGrowth plan

Disability accommodations

Relocation support

Job summary

Doctolib in Paris seeks a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer to lead the clinical AI strategy within the AI & ML Department, shaping AI systems for better clinical decisions and patient care.

You will drive end-to-end ML delivery, establish rigorous evaluation, and build scalable production infra. The role blends deep R&D with strategic leadership, requiring collaboration with medical, legal and compliance teams in regulated healthcare.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in ML/AI with 3+ years at Staff+ or Principal level leading multi-team initiatives.
• PhD in Computer Science, AI, Statistics or related field (or equivalent research experience).
• Deep expertise in at least two of clinical NLP, LLM fine-tuning/evaluation, ASR, RAG or RL.
• Expert in Python, PyTorch/Transformers for training, vLLM or similar for inference with production deployment.
• Exceptional communication skills to align stakeholders and explain technical decisions.

Responsibilities

• Own the long-term technical roadmap for clinical ML systems and production patterns.
• Drive build vs buy decisions balancing custom development with foundation model APIs.
• Define safe rollout standards in healthcare: shadow testing, staged deployment, human-in-the-loop workflows.
• Lead design and implementation of LLM-powered clinical agents and evidence-grounded recommendations.
• Establish evaluation frameworks using real-world clinical data to ensure safety and accuracy.
• Build production infra: model/prompt versioning, guardrails, uncertainty quantification, cost optimization.
• Mentor engineers; lead cross-functional initiatives with Product, Medical Affairs, Legal, Compliance.
• Collaborate with medical, legal, and compliance teams to meet EU regulatory expectations (GDPR, MDR, AI Act).

Skills

Python

PyTorch/Transformers

LLM evaluation

Clinical NLP

RAG systems

Reinforcement learning

Speech recognition

aws/gcp

Education

PhD in Computer Science, AI, Statistics

Tools

AWS

GCP

Transformers

vLLM

Job description

Doctolib in Paris seeks a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer to lead the clinical AI strategy within the AI & ML Department, shaping AI systems for better clinical decisions and patient care.

You will drive end-to-end ML delivery, establish rigorous evaluation, and build scalable production infra. The role blends deep R&D with strategic leadership, requiring collaboration with medical, legal and compliance teams in regulated healthcare.