# Principal, Data Science (Sr. AI Engineer)

Summary of Position: We are seeking a hands-on AI Engineer to design, build, and deploy scalable AI and Generative AI solutions that accelerate innovation across Alcon R&D. The ideal candidate combines strong AWS Cloud expertise, professional AI coding skills, software engineering discipline, and end-to-end solutioning experience to address complex MedTech challenges. Key Responsibilities: · Design and develop AI and Generative AI applications using AWS services and modern AI frameworks. · Build Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), AI agent, copilot, and intelligent document-processing solutions. · Develop secure, scalable APIs, microservices, and cloud-native applications. · Drive technical solution design, architecture reviews, rapid prototypes, and production deployment. · Implement MLOps and GenAIOps practices, including CI/CD, testing, monitoring, observability, and governance. · Collaborate with R&D, Clinical, Regulatory, Quality, and Medical stakeholders to translate business needs into practical AI solutions. Key Requirements/Minimum Qualifications: · Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Engineering, or a related technic

- **Id**: 3753990
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/alcon-principal-data-science-sr-ai-engineer>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Bengaluru, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: yes
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T16:19:34Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T19:19:46Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 5
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4195
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Relocation assistance
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: Artificial Intelligence, Surgical Instruments & Devices, Eyewear

## Company

- **Id**: 5809
- **Name**: Alcon
- **Domain**: alcon.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/alcon>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 88
- **Open postings**: 53
- **Ghost share**: 0.057
- **Stale share**: 0.283
- **Repost share**: 0.075
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 29
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Amazon ECS** — Optional: no
- **Amazon EKS** — Optional: no
- **Amazon S3** — Optional: no
- **Amazon SageMaker** — Optional: no
- **API Gateway** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **AWS Bedrock** — Optional: no
- **AWS Lambda** — Optional: no
- **AWS Step Functions** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **CloudFormation** — Optional: no
- **Copilot** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **DynamoDB** — Optional: no
- **FastAPI** — Optional: no
- **Flask** — Optional: no
- **GitHub Actions** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **OpenSearch** — Optional: no
- **Prompt Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **Amazon Neptune** — Optional: yes
- **AutoGen** — Optional: yes
- **CrewAI** — Optional: yes
- **Knowledge Graph** — Optional: yes
- **LangChain** — Optional: yes
- **LangGraph** — Optional: yes
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: yes
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: yes
- **Neo4j** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 5

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T16:19:34Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 4
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:3, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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