Principal Data Scientist (6 Month Contract)
Indexed description
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]
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