External - AI Architect (m/f/*)

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Job Description:

3M Health Care is now Solventum

At Solventum, we enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers’ toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best. Because people, and their wellbeing, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue.

We partner closely with the brightest minds in healthcare to ensure that every solution we create melds the latest technology with compassion and empathy. Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role
 

As a AI Architect with deep expertise in Machine learning, Agentic AI, Generative AI, and Natural Language Understanding (NLU),  you will lead high-impact AI Platform development for HIS applications. In this role, you will be a hands-on research and development leader - driving technical breakthroughs, designing novel AI architectures, and directly influencing the integration of advanced AI into mission-critical healthcare products. You will collaborate closely with other scientists, engineers, and domain experts to create platform/solutions that are explainable, reliable, and transformative for healthcare operations.

This role is focused on building scalable AI platforms and frameworks from scratch and is not a data science or model experimentation role.

Key Responsibilities

Healthcare-Focused AI Development

• Architect, design and develop AI platform to support large language models to handle healthcare-specific language, regulatory requirements, and ethical considerations.

• Frameworks which can support AI pipelines that can process structured and unstructured healthcare data (FHIR, HL7, clinical notes, claims data).

• Contribute to domain-specific model architectures that improve clinical decision-making, revenue cycle management, and patient engagement.

Technical Leadership

• Serve as the primary technical authority on any AI Platform related development within product teams.

• Mentor junior AI designers and engineers through code reviews, research guidance, and technical workshops.

• Drive internal knowledge-sharing on emerging AI trends, frameworks, and best practices.

Operational & Compliance Excellence

• Implement rigorous model evaluation frameworks for accuracy, robustness, and fairness.

• Ensure compliance with healthcare privacy and data security regulations (HIPAA, HITRUST).

• Partner with engineering to move research prototypes into production environments.

Your Skills and Expertise 
To set you up for success in this role from day one, Solventum requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Master’s in Computer Science, AI, Machine Learning, or related field AND 10+ years of experience in developing AI/ML platform on Cloud & on-Prem.

Or

• 15+  software engineering background in  AI, Machine Learning, or related field with 10+ years of experience in building AI/ML platforms.

• Proficiency in Python, R, and modern ML libraries.

• Experience with GenAI, LLMs, and transformer architectures.

• Skilled with AI development tools and frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, LangChain, RAG systems).

• Hands-on experience with autonomous AI agents and reasoning systems.

• Strong track record applying AI to healthcare or life sciences use cases.

• Strong background with cloud platforms ,On Prem  and MLOps/LLMOps practices.

• Strong background in Kubernetes , Terraforms etc.,

• Proven ability in Observability, Logging and Scalable systems

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

• Knowledge graph db, No SQL/SQL DB

• Proven ability to take Architecture/Design from concept to production.

Work location:

• UK

Supporting Your Well-being 

Solventum offers many programs to help you live your best life – both physically and financially. To ensure competitive pay and benefits, Solventum regularly benchmarks with other companies that are comparable in size and scope. 

Diversity & Inclusion

(*) We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, civil status, disability, family status, or membership of the travelling community.

   

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