Principal Data Scientist (6 Month Contract)

Contract: 6 month contract - 1 day on site in City Centre

The Role

This is a true principal-level IC role.

You’ll act as the senior technical authority within a growing AI function in Dublin, staying close to the build while influencing architecture and standards across the platform.

You’ll:

• Architect and implement large-scale AI/ML systems (LLMs, RAG, agentic frameworks)
• Lead initiatives end-to-end from research through to production deployment
• Design scalable training, evaluation and monitoring pipelines
• Set standards around reproducibility, governance and observability
• Mentor senior data scientists and ML engineers
• Partner closely with engineering and product leadership on roadmap decisions

This role suits someone who wants to stay hands-on but operate at platform level.

What You’ll Likely Bring

• 9+ years building ML/AI systems in production
• Experience leading complex AI initiatives end-to-end
• Strong engineering background (distributed systems, scalable ML, MLOps)
• Exposure to LLM optimisation, prompting, RAG or agent-based systems
• Ability to tie technical work back to real product impact

About the Company

This is a globally established enterprise software company operating at serious scale.

Their platform is widely adopted and commercially mature, with a strong international footprint.

The Dublin team is a key part of their AI investment, focused on building and deploying AI systems directly into a live product used globally.

It’s a good mix of stability and ambition: established business, strong technical teams, and a genuine push into AI.

Interested?

Apply directly or reach out to [email protected]