Senior Data Scientist

Do you want to help improve the lives of millions of people?

We are developing cutting edge technology to reinvent the treatment of heart failure globally. If you are interested in joining a dynamic team that is working hard to change the world for the better, we’d love to talk to you.

As a Senior Data Scientist at FIRE1, you will contribute to the design, implementation, testing, optimisation, and documentation of analytical software, signal processing methods, machine learning models, and data infrastructure used to interpret FIRE1 system data. develop and maintain analytical methods, data pipelines, and algorithms that support clinical evidence generation, implanted cardiovascular sensor data analysis, and regulated product development. You will work across data science and data engineering activities, translating raw clinical, sensor, and operational data into robust datasets, reproducible analyses, validated algorithms, and clear conclusions for R&D, clinical, quality, regulatory, and software stakeholders.

Responsibilities
  • Analyse clinical, physiological, and implanted cardiovascular sensor datasets.
  • Develop, test, document, and maintain signal processing, statistical modelling, and machine learning methods for interpreting FIRE1 system data.
  • Create reproducible analysis pipelines and workflows for exploratory analysis, algorithm development, validation, reporting, and regulatory evidence generation.
  • Communicate analytical methods, assumptions, limitations, results, and conclusions clearly to internal teams and external stakeholders.
  • Support FIRE1 QMS activities, including requirements, risk assessment, verification, validation, change control, release documentation, and design history file inputs for data and software outputs.
  • Collaborate with clinical, R&D, software, quality, regulatory, and operations teams to ensure data products and analytical tools meet clinical, product, and business needs.
  • Champion a culture of Responsible AI awareness and best practice
Qualification & Experience
  • Minimum Bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, data science, statistics, applied mathematics, or an equivalent technical discipline; postgraduate qualification desirable.
  • Experience analysing clinical, physiological, device, wearable, imaging, or other high-dimensional biomedical datasets.
  • Strong capability in statistical modelling, clinical data analysis, signal processing, feature extraction, and algorithm performance evaluation.
  • Professional programming experience in Python and/or MATLAB for scientific computing, data analysis or algorithm development.
  • Experience with data engineering concepts including relational databases, SQL/MySQL, data pipeline design, ETL/ELT workflows, data validation, cloud services, and automated processing jobs.
  • Familiarity with AWS services, serverless workflows such as AWS Lambda, API-based data transfer, logging and monitoring of production or near-production data workflows.
  • Experience with modern software development practices including version control, code review, issue tracking, test documentation, release management, and tools such as Jira.
  • Experience working in a regulated medical device, SaMD, clinical research, digital health, or similarly controlled software/data environment.
  • Ability to convert ambiguous clinical or product questions into well-defined analyses, datasets, algorithms, validation plans, and decision-ready outputs.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical analysis and software outputs to clinical, engineering, quality, regulatory, and leadership audiences.
Benefits
  • 25 days annual leave
  • Competitive health insurance plan with Vhi
  • Pension 8% employer contribution
  • Employee share ownership programme
  • Discretionary bonus plan
  • Discounted gym membership at DCU & UCD gyms
  • Taxsaver Commuter Tickets & Bike to Work Scheme
  • EAP (Employee Assistance Programme)
  • Employer funded Sports & Social Committee
Our Values

We are a team – We are a diverse team who respect each other’s opinions. We work and learn together in an open and honest way to achieve our ambitious purpose.

We care about our patients – We are determined to give our patients their normal back and strive to continuously improve the patient experience. We appreciate the sacrifice they make to be in our study.

We are pioneers – We embrace the uncertainty of trying something new & appreciate the privilege we have to build a company that will improve millions of lives.

We are ambitious – We are purpose-driven & will deliver the market leading, self-management product for heart failure, to give millions of patients their normal back.

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