About the Role
Dyad is seeking a Head of AI to lead a team designing and operationalizing a graph-integrated generative AI architecture. This senior, hands-on technical leadership role focuses on building production systems that handle unstructured clinical text, structured knowledge, and generative AI. The role requires a deep, integrative understanding of machine learning and language foundations to bridge NLP pipelines, LLM-based reasoning, and knowledge graph grounding for regulated healthcare environments.
Responsibilities
- Design and own end-to-end AI architectures integrating NLP pipelines, LLM reasoning, and knowledge graph grounding.
- Define how structured semantics constrain, validate, and guide generative outputs.
- Make pragmatic architectural decisions balancing accuracy, performance, and engineering effort.
- Set standards for system design patterns across the Applied AI stack.
- Ensure AI features are production-ready and aligned with product intent.
- Coordinate technical work and break product requirements into implementation plans.
- Ensure alignment between NLP components, graph systems, and application layers.
- Represent Applied AI in cross-functional technical discussions.
- Define and maintain evaluation frameworks for hallucination detection, precision, and recall.
- Implement structured output approaches and design iterative feedback loops.
- Design AI workflows that embed traceability, auditability, and data minimization.
- Collaborate with Clinical Safety and QARA teams to manage architectural risk.
Requirements
- Master's degree in computer science with an AI focus or equivalent.
- 5+ years of commercial experience delivering production AI/NLP systems.
- Experience operating at architectural or technical leadership levels.
- Strong hands-on experience designing production AI systems integrating LLMs with structured knowledge.
- Deep understanding of trade-offs between symbolic reasoning, probabilistic inference, and generative pattern matching.
- Experience building systems combining NLP pipelines with structured data validation or knowledge graphs.
- Strong background in clinical NLP, entity recognition, and terminology mapping (SNOMED CT, ICD, UMLS).
- Experience designing document AI systems using OCR, layout-aware models, or multimodal architectures.
- Strong Python experience for NLP pipelines, LLM orchestration, and evaluation tooling.
- Experience with prompt engineering using structured outputs and schema-constrained generation.
- Experience designing evaluation and benchmarking frameworks for production LLM systems.
- Understanding of model versioning, regression testing, and iterative improvement cycles.
- Ability to collaborate with Knowledge Engineers to ensure graph representations are AI-usable.
- Experience working in regulated or high-assurance environments.
- Ability to balance experimentation with production discipline.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-moving startup environment.
Skills
- Python
- NLP pipelines
- LLM orchestration
- Knowledge graphs
- Clinical NLP
- Entity recognition
- Terminology mapping (SNOMED CT, ICD, UMLS)
- Document AI
- Prompt engineering
- Schema-constrained generation
- System design
- Technical leadership
Location
- London, UK
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Education Level
- Master's degree
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive
Benefits
- Company pension
- 25 days of paid annual leave (pro-rata)
- Flexible hybrid working environment
- Employee Assistance Programme (Health Assured)
- Modern, dog-friendly office near Chancery Lane
- Free drinks
About the Company
- Dyad is an early-stage startup focused on improving the delivery and efficiency of healthcare.
- The company builds platforms to model and manage information flow within healthcare organizations.
- Products are founded on a Semantic AI platform combining knowledge graphs and generative AI.
- The team consists of approximately twenty people operating in the UK and US markets.
