Data Scientist/Research Specialist

Company Description Essence Innovation develops an AI-powered health app designed to put individuals at the center of their healthcare journey. The platform enables users to securely store and manage their complete medical history, ensuring records are always accessible when needed. By providing real-time health insights and streamlined access to global healthcare resources, the app helps users make informed decisions about their well-being. Essence Innovation focuses on data ownership and transparency, empowering users to take full control of their healthcare through technology-driven solutions.

Experience: 3–5 Years

Domain: Healthcare / Medical Research / AI / Data Science

About the RoleWe are looking for a Data Scientist / Medical Researcher with strong healthcare and medical research capabilities to support the development and training of AI-powered healthcare solutions.

The candidate will be responsible for researching, validating, structuring, and organizing information from medical books, journals, clinical resources, healthcare datasets, and other reliable sources to create high-quality knowledge and training datasets for AI systems.

The role requires a strong understanding of medical terminology, healthcare workflows, evidence-based research, and the ability to translate complex medical information into structured and AI-ready data.

Key Responsibilities

• Research medical information from reliable and authoritative sources.
• Study and analyze medical books, journals, publications, clinical guidelines, and healthcare datasets.
• Create structured datasets and knowledge bases for AI/ML training.
• Support development of healthcare AI models through high-quality data curation and annotation.
• Validate medical information for accuracy, consistency, relevance, and completeness.
• Categorize and structure medical knowledge into appropriate healthcare domains.
• Identify inconsistencies, outdated information, or potential gaps in medical datasets.
• Work closely with AI/ML, Product, Engineering, and Healthcare teams.
• Support development of medical taxonomies, terminology, entities, symptoms, conditions, medications, procedures, and healthcare workflows.
• Assist in developing evaluation datasets and test cases for healthcare AI.
• Conduct literature reviews and evidence-based research.
• Maintain proper documentation and references for research material.
• Support responsible AI development by identifying medical safety and quality considerations.
• Continuously monitor developments in healthcare research, medical AI, and clinical knowledge.Required Skills
• 3–5 years of experience in medical research, healthcare data science, biomedical research, or a related field.
• Strong understanding of medical terminology and healthcare concepts.
• Experience working with medical literature, healthcare datasets, or clinical information.
• Strong analytical and research skills.
• Knowledge of data annotation, classification, data cleaning, or dataset preparation.
• Ability to interpret and simplify complex medical information.
• Strong documentation and communication skills.
• Understanding of AI/ML concepts is preferred.
• Experience with healthcare AI, NLP, LLMs, or medical data projects will be an advantage.Preferred BackgroundMBBS, BDS, B.Pharm, M.Pharm, Biotechnology, Biomedical Sciences, Life Sciences, Data Science, or related healthcare/technical education.