Director, Data Science - GenAI - Neuroscience
Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine · CA, US
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About the Role
The Director, Data Science – GenAI – Neuroscience will lead the design, development, and deployment of AI, generative AI, and agentic AI workflow solutions for Neuroscience R&D. This role translates priority research needs into scalable tools and capabilities, sets technical direction, guides multidisciplinary delivery, and establishes evaluation and responsible AI practices. The work directly accelerates scientific discovery, fuels AI innovation, and impacts patients globally.
Responsibilities
- Set the Neuroscience AI strategy, portfolio, roadmap, and measures of value.
- Build and deploy scalable agentic AI and generative AI solutions for priority scientific needs.
- Own delivery, investment decisions, and outcomes for the Neuroscience AI portfolio.
- Ensure scientific rigor, appropriate evidence use, and reliable domain representation.
- Establish evaluation standards, expert validation, and responsible AI practices.
- Shape shared platform capabilities and develop reusable solutions aligned with enterprise architecture.
- Guide multidisciplinary teams and maintain strong engineering and lifecycle practices.
- Partner with scientists and leaders to prioritize needs, validate solutions, and drive adoption.
- Communicate technical choices, risks, progress, and impact to senior stakeholders.
Requirements
- PhD in computer science, computational biology, genetics, genomics, medical informatics, or a related quantitative field; or MS with additional relevant experience.
- 8+ years of experience in pharmaceutical, biotech, or healthcare analytics, with experience setting technical direction.
- Hands-on experience building agentic systems and deploying AI, NLP, or generative AI solutions, leveraging LLMs, retrieval, grounding, and evaluation within the last 18 months.
- Strong ability to critically assess scientific evidence.
- Strong Python skills and sound software engineering practices.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary technical delivery and influencing across organizational boundaries.
- Demonstrated ability to define priorities, make evidence-based tradeoffs, and deliver measurable value.
- Strong communication skills with technical, scientific, and senior non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience developing within shared platforms, architecture standards, and governance frameworks.
- Optional expertise in neuroscience.
- Experience with genetics, multi-omics, imaging, ontologies, or scientific knowledge systems preferred.
- Exposure to regulated environments, AI governance, and human-in-the-loop systems is preferred.
- Optional: industry experience in drug discovery, clinical development, neuroscience.
Skills
- Advanced Analytics
- Budget Management
- Compliance Management
- Critical Thinking
- Data Analysis
- Data Privacy Standards
- Data Quality
- Data Reporting
- Data Savvy
- Data Science
- Data Visualization
- Developing Others
- Digital Fluency
- Inclusive Leadership
- Leadership
- Program Management
- Strategic Thinking
- Succession Planning
- AI
- Generative AI
- Agentic AI
- NLP
- LLMs
- Retrieval
- Grounding
- Evaluation
- Python
- Software Engineering
Location
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America
- San Diego, California, United States of America
- Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 8+ years of experience
- Senior
Education Level
- PhD
- MS
Salary/Compensations
- $164,000 to $282,900
Benefits
- Annual performance bonus
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Short-term disability
- Long-term disability
- Business accident insurance
- Group legal insurance
- Consolidated retirement plan (pension)
- Savings plan (401(k))
- Vacation – up to 120 hours per calendar year
- Sick time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
- Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays – up to 13 days per calendar year
- Work, Personal and Family Time – up to 40 hours per calendar year
About the Company
- At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases arePrevention, treatment, and cure. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity.
- Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is recruiting for Director, Data Science – GenAI – Neuroscience to join our J&J Research and Development Data, Data Science, and AI (DDSAI) team.
- Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine
Equal Opportunity
- Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law.
- We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.
- Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, external applicants please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers , internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.