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Senior GenAI Engineer - HealthTech | Oxford (Hybrid x2 days per week)

We’re partnering with a scaling HealthTech platform based in Oxford that’s embedding Generative AI directly into core clinical and operational workflows. This is not an innovation lab or a PoC exercise. The work sits in production and supports real users in regulated healthcare environments.


They are now looking to hire a Senior GenAI Engineer to take technical ownership of LLM-powered capabilities across the product.


The opportunity

You will work at the intersection of NLP, large language models, and real-world healthcare data. You’ll collaborate closely with backend engineers, data scientists, and product team to design, build, and reinforce GenAI systems that ship and are maintained long-term.


What you will be doing

  • Designing and deploying LLM-driven features for text understanding, summarisation, classification, extraction, and decision support
  • Building and maintaining NLP pipelines across structured and unstructured clinical or operational text
  • Implementing and optimising retrieval-augmented generation architectures, prompt strategies, and evaluation approaches
  • Working with both open-source and hosted LLMs and integrating them into production APIs
  • Partnering with engineering teams to ensure solutions are scalable, observable, secure, and cost-aware
  • Contributing to architectural decisions around model choice, inference, latency, and data governance
  • Helping establish internal best practices for GenAI reliability, testing, and iteration

What you will need

  • Strong commercial experience working with LLMs and NLP systems in production
  • A solid grounding in modern NLP techniques including embeddings, transformers, retrieval, fine-tuning, and evaluation
  • Strong Python skills and experience with production-grade ML or AI engineering practices
  • Comfort operating in ambiguous problem spaces and taking ownership from problem definition through to delivery
  • Experience working in cloud environments and with modern data or ML tooling
  • A pragmatic, engineering-led mindset focused on outcomes rather than hype

Healthcare experience is not essential. However, experience working in heavily regulated, high-accountability environments such as healthcare, life sciences, fintech, or other regulated domains would be highly beneficial.


Unfortunately, this role cannot offer visa / sponsorship.


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