Head of Data & AI Platforms, Beijing
Core
Build AstraZeneca's Beijing AI Center from the ground up to accelerate drug discovery through AI, owning platform capabilities, compute strategy, and agentic AI direction for R&D teams.
Role type
Head of Data & AI Platforms (Strategic Leadership)
Builds
Platform capabilities, compute enablement, agentic AI systems, and AI engineering standards for biologics and computational chemistry discovery.
Domain
Biopharmaceutical R&D, AI/ML, Computational Chemistry
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Platform strategy, Compute resource planning, MLOps standards, Agentic AI architecture, AI evaluation frameworks, Team leadership
Preferred skills
China LLM landscape knowledge, Local partnership evaluation, Domain-specific benchmark curation
Technologies
Foundation models, Agentic AI, Large-scale scientific computing, GPU clusters, MLOps tools
Responsibilities
Serve as single point of accountability for platform outcomes, define research-computing engineering strategy, set direction for agentic AI platform, establish AI engineering standards and evaluation frameworks, build and lead the platform team
Seniority
Executive, strategic leadership & mentorship
