Principal AI Scientist: Digital Pathology & ML (Remote)

Discover International; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Discover International is seeking a Principal AI Scientist to lead methodologies for digital pathology and machine learning. This fully remote role is a 12-month contract and focuses on governance, data ingestion, and model development standards as an advisory and hands-on contributor.

You will shape scalable imaging data pipelines, define privacy-compliant data handling, and review AI architectures for regulated Life Sciences settings, working with external vendors and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• MSc in computer science, statistics, computational biology or a comparable discipline. PhD welcomed.
• Minimum five years in data science, statistics or business intelligence supporting AI and ML work within clinical research, pharma, CRO or medical device environments.
• Deep Python capability across pandas, numpy, scikit learn, scikit survival, matplotlib, seaborn and shap, with disciplined use of virtual environments and version control.
• Strong grounding in machine learning methods for clustering, classification, regression, anomaly detection and optimisation, ideally across both small and large datasets.
• Working exposure to cloud platforms, with AWS or Google Cloud preferred.
• Excellent written and spoken English, and the ability to explain complex technical concepts simply to non specialist stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Shape how high volume digital pathology imaging is brought into an internal big data environment at scale, including format handling and integrity verification.
• Define how imaging data and metadata are anonymised to meet privacy and compliance expectations.
• Review AI and ML architectures, data processing workflows and proposed implementation approaches, including external vendors and project partners.
• Advise stakeholders on regulatory, compliance and quality considerations for ML in a regulated Life Sciences setting.

Skills

Python

Pandas

NumPy

Scikit-learn

Scikit-survival

Matplotlib

Seaborn

SHAP

Version control

Virtual environments

Education

MSc in computer science, statistics, computational biology

PhD welcomed

Tools

AWS

Google Cloud

Job description

Discover International is seeking a Principal AI Scientist to lead methodologies for digital pathology and machine learning. This fully remote role is a 12-month contract and focuses on governance, data ingestion, and model development standards as an advisory and hands-on contributor.

You will shape scalable imaging data pipelines, define privacy-compliant data handling, and review AI architectures for regulated Life Sciences settings, working with external vendors and stakeholders.