Principal AI Engineer & Applied Researcher

Summary

This Principal AI Engineer & Applied Researcher role at Wolters Kluwer's Advanced Technology team focuses on co-creating state-of-the-art AI/ML solutions for the Health division, particularly enhancing products like UpToDate. The role involves prototyping early ideas, experimenting with advanced technologies, and collaborating with clinicians, engineers, and data scientists. You will design and implement impactful AI solutions, drive innovation by integrating emerging AI technologies, and contribute to research. The position requires strong technical skills, curiosity, and business acumen to build scalable and maintainable AI systems addressing real-world challenges.

Must Have

• Design and implement reliable, high-performing code for AI products.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and subject matter experts.
• Identify, evaluate, and integrate emerging AI technologies.
• Contribute to product innovations, research, or intellectual property.
• Establish and uphold best practices in AI/ML, testing, validation, and documentation.
• Build prototypes and experiment with advanced technologies.
• Work with clinicians, customers, engineers, and data scientists.
• Run large-scale AI experiments.
• Design cutting-edge AI solutions.
• Build scalable and maintainable AI systems.

Wolters Kluwer is a global leader in professional information services. Professionals in healthcare, legal, business, tax, accounting, finance, audit, risk and compliance rely on our market-leading information-enabled tools and software solutions to manage their business efficiently and deliver results to their clients and succeed in an ever more dynamic world. Our portfolio offers software tools coupled with content and services that customers need to make decisions with confidence. Every day, our customers make critical decisions to help save lives, improve how we do business, and build better judicial and regulatory systems. We help them get it right.

This role is part of the Advanced Technology team in the Digital eXperience Group (

• /dxg), which co-creates state-of-the-art products and solutions with businesses around the globe. Our growing array of solutions supports the expanding set of Expert Solutions and online product portfolios. Within
• /dxg, the Advanced Technology (AT) Group serves as WK’s AI and machine learning (ML) center of excellence, integrating AI/ML into products across divisions. While focusing on large language models (LLMs), AT also applies classical ML techniques to enhance product capabilities.

This role supports our Health division. One of its flagship products, UpToDate, is trusted by over 1 million clinicians in over 170 countries to make the best decisions at the point of patient care. More than 60 research studies confirm UpToDate’s widespread usage and association with improved patient care and hospital performance, including reduced lengths of stay, adverse complications, and mortality.

In the role of Principal AI Engineer & Applied Researcher, you will take early ideas and build prototypes, while experimenting with advanced technologies and platforms. You should be willing to take on challenges of unknown dimensions, and work hand in hand with clinicians, customers, engineers and data scientists to prototype and test early concepts. You will need to have very strong technical skills, deep curiosity, business acumen, and the ability to think fast and act fast.

Overview

We are seeking a Principal AI Engineer & Applied Researcher who combines a strong scientific and engineering foundation with a practical, solution-oriented mindset to support the Health division. This role focuses on building impactful AI solutions that address real-world challenges and deliver measurable value. If you are passionate about running large-scale AI experiments, designing new solutions on the cusp of what is technically possible, and building scalable and maintainable systems, we invite you to join our team.

Position Responsibilities

• Develop and Deploy AI Solutions: Design and implement reliable and high-performing code for AI products that deliver measurable business impact.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work effectively with product, engineering, and subject matter experts to ensure alignment on meeting customer needs.
• Drive Innovation: Identify, evaluate, and integrate emerging AI technologies to ensure optimal solutions aligned with business value.
• Advance Research: Contribute through product innovations, published research, or intellectual property that integrates cutting-edge advancements.
• Foster Best Practices: Establish and uphold best practices in AI/ML, including rigorous testing, validation, and documentation. Mentor and guide team members to foster a culture of scientific excellence and continuous improvement.