Description

Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio.

Your role and responsibilities

• Design and develop AI/GenAI models tailored for Healthcare and Life Sciences applications.
• Analyze large datasets (structured and unstructured) to extract actionable insights.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including clinicians, biostatisticians, and software engineers to integrate AI solutions into workflows.
• Develop and validate predictive models for patient outcomes, treatment optimization, and clinical decision support.
• Implement agentic AI systems that can autonomously perform tasks or provide recommendations in healthcare processes.
• Conduct experiments and performance evaluations to ensure model accuracy, fairness, and reliability.
• Stay up-to-date with AI/ML trends, particularly in GenAI and Healthcare applications, and propose innovative solutions.
• Document methodologies, results, and AI model pipelines for reproducibility and regulatory compliance.
• Support deployment and monitoring of AI solutions in production environments.
  
  This Job can be Performed from anywhere in the US.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Proven experience in AI/GenAI and machine learning model development, including deep learning and agentic AI systems.
• Strong programming skills in Python, R, or similar languages, and experience with AI/ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn).
• Experience with healthcare or life sciences data, including EHR, genomic, clinical trial, or other biomedical datasets.
• Solid understanding of statistics, data analysis, and experimental design.
• Experience in data preprocessing, feature engineering, and model validation.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and deployment of AI solutions in production.
• Ability to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, including clinicians, software engineers, and product managers.
• Strong problem-solving skills and critical thinking, with the ability to translate business or clinical needs into AI solutions.
• Excellent communication skills to present findings, methodologies, and insights to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Experience with regulatory and compliance requirements in healthcare or life sciences is a plus.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM's consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients' businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

- Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being

- Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs

- Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law

- Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals

- Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

Job Title

Senior Data Scientist - AI - Healthcare & Life Sciences

Date posted

12-May-2026

Job ID

114614

City / Township / Village

PARAMUS, New York

State / Province

New York, New Jersey

Country

United States

Work arrangement

Hybrid

Area of work

Data & Analytics

Employment type

Regular

Contract type

Regular

Projected Minimum Salary per year

172,000.00

Projected Maximum Salary per year

321,000.00

Position type

Professional

Travel required

Up to 60% or 3 days a week (home on weekends - based on project requirements)

Company

(0147) International Business Machines Corporation

Shift

General (daytime)

Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?

No



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