About the Role
Develop, benchmark, deploy, and integrate world-class agentic AI and Machine Learning within the Pharmacokinetics, Dynamics, Metabolism, and Bioanalytics (PDMB) department. Partner with scientists to pioneer AI/ML innovations that augment scientific insight, streamline workflows, and improve decision-making across the drug development lifecycle to advance transformative medicines. This role requires a strong technical background, collaboration with stakeholders, and the ability to communicate across science, technology, and business strategy to deliver "human in the loop" AI/ML. It is central to integrating AI/ML for insight and efficiency across the R&D portfolio to deliver transformative medicines for patients.
Responsibilities
- Act as a trusted technical partner to DMPK scientists, clinical pharmacologists, statisticians, clinicians, and research leaders.
- Facilitate cross-functional alignment.
- Translate scientific and operational needs into clear AI/ML solution requirements.
- Communicate clearly with technical and non‑technical audiences, explaining capabilities, limitations, and trade-offs.
- Design, develop, benchmark, and deploy AI agents to support PDMB and clinical workflows.
- Support automated report generation, quality evaluation, consistency checks, process monitoring, deviation detection, scheduling, prioritization, and alerting systems.
- Apply agent development frameworks and architectures (e.g., tool-using agents, workflow agents, human-in-the-loop systems).
- Integrate agents and ML methods into existing R&D platforms, laboratory systems, data lakes, and clinical data environments.
- Develop and apply machine learning and deep learning models for DMPK and clinical applications.
- Build and evaluate simulation and hybrid ML–mechanistic models to support decision-making in discovery and development.
- Apply best practices in model validation, benchmarking, uncertainty estimation, and performance monitoring.
- Define benchmarks and success metrics for AI agents and ML models, including scientific quality, operational efficiency, and user adoption.
- Implement ongoing monitoring for model drift, data quality, agent behavior, and downstream impact.
- Contribute to responsible AI practices, including transparency, reproducibility, governance, and compliance with GxP considerations.
- Define and track value metrics such as time savings, cost avoidance, throughput improvements, and decision quality.
- Quantify and communicate return on investment (ROI) and business impact from deployed AI and ML solutions.
- Support prioritization of AI initiatives based on scientific impact, feasibility, and value creation.
Requirements
- Master’s degree (with 3 years of experience) or Ph.D. in Data Science, Computer Science, Computational Chemistry, Bioinformatics, Applied Mathematics, or a related quantitative field.
- Relevant experience developing and deploying AI, machine learning, or Analytics systems in industry or applied research environments.
- Hands-on experience with large language models and agentic AI frameworks (fine-tuning, prompt engineering, multi-agent orchestration, tool use, and API-based production orchestration).
- Proven experience integrating and modeling multimodal datasets (omics, chemical, textual, imaging).
- Experience in model evaluation and benchmarking.
- Strong software development skills in Python.
- Familiarity with modern ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow), MLOps tools, cloud platforms (AWS preferred), and HPC environments.
- Experience driving consensus in cross-functional teams spanning science, engineering, and operations.
- Experience in stakeholder management and influencing without authority.
- Excellent communication skills; ability to translate complex technical work to domain experts and leadership.
Skills
- Strong foundation in machine learning algorithms, including deep learning, supervised/unsupervised learning, and time-series or sequence modeling.
- Experience with foundation models (e.g., large language models, multimodal models) and techniques for adaptation (prompting, fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation).
- Practical experience with AI agent frameworks, orchestration, and tool integration.
- Expertise in model evaluation and benchmarking, including offline metrics and real-world performance monitoring.
- Proven ability to work with large-scale, heterogeneous datasets (biological, chemical, clinical, operational).
- Proficiency in Python and modern ML/data science tooling.
- Experience with scalable data and model deployment environments.
- Demonstrated strength in stakeholder management and influencing without authority.
- Experience driving consensus in cross-functional teams spanning science, engineering, and operations.
- Ability to independently lead initiatives from problem definition through deployment and impact measurement.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Agentic AI
- Agentic Design
- Data Modeling
- Data Science
- Data Visualization
- Machine Learning (ML)
- Machine Learning Methods
- Machine Learning Model Development
- Python (Programming Language)
- Report Generation Software
- Stakeholder Relationship Management
- Prior experience working in pharmaceutical or biotechnology R&D environments (Preferred).
- Familiarity with PK/PD modeling, DMPK assays, and clinical pharmacology concepts (Preferred).
- Exposure to GxP-regulated environments and validation considerations for AI/ML systems (Preferred).
- Experience deploying AI systems with human-in-the-loop workflows (Preferred).
Location
- South San Francisco, CA
- Boston, MA
- West Point, PA
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior level
- 3+ years of relevant experience (with Master's degree)
Education Level
- Master’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Computational Chemistry, Bioinformatics, Applied Mathematics or a related quantitative field.
- Ph.D. in Data Science, Computer Science, Computational Chemistry, Bioinformatics, Applied Mathematics or a related quantitative field.
Salary/Compensations
- $129,000.00 - $203,100.00
Benefits
- Annual bonus
- Long-term incentive
- Medical healthcare benefits
- Dental healthcare benefits
- Vision healthcare benefits
- Other insurance benefits (for employee and family)
- Retirement benefits, including 401(k)
- Paid holidays
- Vacation days
- Compassionate days
- Sick days
About the Company
- Global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.
- Legacy of innovation and inventiveness for over a century.
- Success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and a mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.
Equal Opportunity
- Committed to inclusion and ensuring candidates can engage in a hiring process that exhibits their true capabilities.
- Provides equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment.
- Prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
- Complies with all affirmative action requirements for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as a federal contractor.
- Embraces the value of bringing together talented, committed people with diverse experiences, perspectives, skills, and backgrounds in an inclusive environment.
- Encourages colleagues to respectfully challenge one another’s thinking and approach problems collectively.
- For San Francisco Residents: Considers qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
- For Los Angeles Residents: Considers for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, consistent with applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.
