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Senior Director, Applied AI Solutions

United States - California - Foster City💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-23 → 2026-09-25

Core

Leads the applied AI function to turn high-value Clinical Data Science and Development AI problems into trusted, reusable, production-grade AI capabilities that improve clinical development design, conduct, analysis, and learning.

Role type

Senior Director, Applied AI Solutions (Hands-on IC with people leadership)

Builds

Production-grade AI services, applications, agents, and shared components for clinical data review, study design, biomarker workflows, safety detection, and regulatory evidence.

Domain

Life Sciences / Clinical Data Science / Drug Development

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Applied AI engineering, solution architecture, agentic system design, LLMOps/MLOps, responsible AI governance, product discovery, team leadership

Preferred skills

Experience with RAG, semantic search, knowledge graphs, multimodal AI, MCP/A2A protocols, GxP/regulatory controls

Technologies

RAG, semantic search, knowledge graphs, multimodal AI, MCP, A2A

Responsibilities

Define multi-year applied AI engineering roadmap; design and deliver AI services from 0 to production; guide responsible use of agentic patterns; establish AI engineering practices and evaluation harnesses; drive adoption and measure value realization; build and lead multidisciplinary teams.

Seniority

Senior Director, hands-on IC with strategic planning and team leadership

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