Head of AI & Agentic Platform Engineering
Core
Owns the infrastructure layer (compute, LLM gateway, MLOps, observability) enabling Pfizer's AI and autonomous agentic systems across R&D, Commercial, and Supply domains.
Role type
Senior IC platform engineering leader (AI infrastructure)
Builds
Enterprise LLM gateway, agent orchestration runtime, multi-cloud compute provisioning, MLOps platform, and AI model/agent registry with automated deployment pipelines.
Domain
Pharmaceutical industry + AI/ML infrastructure & MLOps
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
AI/ML platform engineering, MLOps, LLM gateway architecture, multi-cloud infrastructure (Azure/AWS/GCP), Infrastructure as Code, regulated environment operations (GxP), team leadership
Preferred skills
Agentic AI infrastructure design, HPC environment management, petabyte-scale ML platform experience, deep LLM optimization techniques
Technologies
Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Python, SQL, Prometheus, Grafana, MLflow, Kubeflow, Ray, LangChain, MCP
Responsibilities
Architect and build the LLM gateway and agent orchestration layer; manage enterprise compute provisioning and FinOps; develop MLOps pipelines for model versioning and deployment; enforce AI governance policies and guardrails; lead platform teams in a product-minded operating model.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities
