Senior AI / Machine Learning Engineer – Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS)

Job ID: 40139876

Budget: ₹250,000 – ₹500,000 INR

Senior AI / Machine Learning Engineer – Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS)

Location: Saudi Arabia
Industry: Healthcare / Hospital / Digital Health
Employment Type: Full-time | Senior Level

About the Role
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We are looking for a Senior AI / Machine Learning Engineer to lead the development and deployment of AI-driven disease risk prediction models as part of a Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) used in a hospital environment.

This role focuses on real-world clinical AI, supporting physicians with explainable, safe, and regulatory-compliant risk predictions for:

Sepsis

Diabetes

Cardiac events

AI outputs will assist clinicians and will not replace clinical judgment.

What You’ll Do
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Clinical AI Development

Design and deploy risk prediction models using hospital EHR data

Build models for:

Sepsis early warning

Diabetes risk stratification

Cardiac risk prediction

Select and optimize models such as XGBoost, LightGBM, CatBoost

Define clinical thresholds in collaboration with physicians

Explainable & Safe AI

Implement explainable AI (SHAP / LIME) for every prediction

Ensure outputs include:

Key contributing clinical factors

Confidence scores

Reduce false alerts and clinician alert fatigue

Maintain human-in-the-loop decision controls

Healthcare Data & Integration

Work with EHR / HIS data using HL7 & FHIR

Handle real-world clinical data (missing, noisy, time-dependent)

Collaborate with IT, clinical, and data governance teams

Validation & Quality

Lead retrospective and prospective (silent-mode) validation

Monitor performance using healthcare-specific metrics:

Sensitivity / Specificity

AUROC

False-positive rates

Monitor model drift and bias

Saudi Regulatory Compliance

Support compliance with:
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SFDA (SaMD – Software as a Medical Device)

Saudi PDPL

SDAIA AI governance principles

Contribute to clinical evaluation and audit documentation

Ensure full audit trails for AI decisions

What We’re Looking For
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Experience

7+ years in AI / Machine Learning

3+ years working with healthcare or clinical data

Experience deploying ML models in production environments

Prior work with CDSS, healthcare AI, or predictive analytics preferred

Technical Skills

Expert in Python

Strong hands-on experience with:

XGBoost / LightGBM / CatBoost

Scikit-learn

Explainability tools (SHAP required)

Experience with time-series patient data

Familiarity with Docker, FastAPI, MLflow is a plus

Healthcare & Regulatory Knowledge (Preferred)

Understanding of hospital workflows (ICU, wards, OPD)

Familiarity with clinical data (vitals, labs, diagnoses)

Knowledge of SFDA, PDPL, hospital ethics / IRB

Experience in Saudi Arabia or GCC healthcare is an advantage

Why Join Us?
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Work on AI that directly impacts patient safety

Build regulatory-grade clinical AI, not prototypes

Collaborate closely with clinicians and hospital leadership

Play a key role in shaping the hospital’s AI strategy

High ownership, high visibility, real clinical impact

Ideal Candidate
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A senior AI professional who understands that in healthcare:

Accuracy alone is not enough — explainability, safety, and trust matter.