Head of Data & AI Platforms, Beijing
Core
Build AstraZeneca's Beijing AI Center from the ground up to accelerate drug discovery by establishing platform capabilities, standards, and tooling that enable scientists to use AI and large-scale computing.
Role type
Head of Data & AI Platforms (Strategic Platform Leader)
Builds
AI platform capabilities, compute enablement strategies, agentic AI frameworks, and evaluation standards for drug discovery science.
Domain
Biopharma / Drug Discovery / AI & Large Language Models
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
AI/ML platform engineering, team leadership, MLOps, compute demand forecasting, agentic AI direction, evaluation and benchmarking infrastructure, stakeholder management
Preferred skills
Biopharma domain knowledge, external technology partnership management, data governance, multi-org delivery models
Technologies
LLM tooling, agent frameworks, multi-agent orchestration, open-weight models, quantisation, batching, CI/CD for ML
Responsibilities
Serve as the single point of accountability for the Beijing AI center; set research-computing engineering strategy and MLOps standards; define direction for the agentic AI platform; establish AI engineering standards and evaluation frameworks; build and lead the platform team.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with strategic leadership
