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Associate Director, Data Scientist

United States - California - Foster City💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-13 → 2026-09-25

Core

Lead the development, evaluation, deployment, and scaling of AI capabilities for research, development, clinical, regulatory, and enterprise use cases at a biopharmaceutical company.

Role type

Senior IC Applied AI Engineer / AI Operations Lead

Builds

Production AI systems, RAG systems, agentic workflows, and reusable AI frameworks for drug discovery and clinical operations.

Domain

Biopharmaceuticals / Applied AI & Machine Learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Generative AI, RAG, agentic workflows, prompt engineering, LLM evaluation, cloud AI services, microservices, containerization

Preferred skills

Clinical trial data, real-world data, scientific machine learning, knowledge graphs, multimodal AI

Technologies

LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, Microsoft Agent Framework, Langfuse, AWS, Azure

Responsibilities

Manage contractors and technical delivery partners for AI initiatives; design AI solution architectures and guide development of RAG and agentic systems; build reusable AI frameworks and tools; ensure responsible AI governance and production operations; collaborate with cross-functional teams to prioritize high-impact AI opportunities.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with team leadership

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