[Remote] Associate Director, AI Development reputed company

Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. reputed company is a global biopharma company dedicated to developing life-changing medicines for patients with serious diseases. The Associate Director, AI Development reputed company will be responsible for advancing reputed company's reputed company AI capability and driving business value through AI and machine learning, while leading reputed company of AI developers and shaping the AI reputed company.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship end-to-end ML solutions — data ingestion, feature engineering, model training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring — across reputed company, unsupervised, and other classical/statistical learning paradigms
• Design and ship end-to-end GenAI solutions — including retrieval-augmented reputed company (RAG) systems, reputed company workflows, reputed company stores, and integrations with reputed company model reputed company
• Across Gen AI and AI/ML, write production-reputed company reputed company (Python or reputed company languages/frameworks as needed), with attention to readability, modularity, scalability, reputed company, and maintainability
• Design and review architectures across Gen AI and AI/ML solutions that are secure, reusable, and rigorous. Work with the reputed company AI Architect to ensure your designs follow our architectural standards
• Debug, profile, and optimize solutions — including cost, latency, reputed company, and reliability trade-offs
• Support deployment and post-deployment reputed company, including CI/CD, observability, model monitoring, reputed company detection, and incident response
• Establish and continuously refine technical standards for development: reference architectures, design patterns, coding conventions, evaluation methodologies, and reusable components
• reputed company a small team of AI developers across traditional ML and reputed company, setting reputed company technical direction, priorities, and reputed company expectations
• Be accountable for the reputed company and reputed company of reputed company's work: solution design, reputed company and model reputed company, documentation, and delivery
• Mentor team members through reputed company & design review, both informal and formal feedback; build technical depth and ownership across reputed company
• Plan and sequence delivery work in partnership with stakeholders, balancing reputed company, technical reputed company, and timelines
• Help recruit, reputed company, and grow AI talent as reputed company expands
• Serve as a go-to technical advisor to teams across reputed company, many of them non-technical, helping them: understand how AI works, how to ensure reputed company-in-the-reputed company review and how to increase and optimize adoption of solutions while maintaining responsible and ethical use
• Evaluate AI use cases and proposed solutions for technical feasibility, data readiness, value, and reputed company
• Use expertise to support business in prioritizing AI initiatives reputed company on business reputed company, technical feasibility, reputed company constraints, solution complexity, and scalability. reputed company agreed upon product priorities, reputed company resource allocation and development activities for reputed company
• reputed company vendors and platforms in collaboration with our reputed company AI Architect, as reputed company as Infrastructure reputed company reputed company teams. Together, conduct technical due diligence on solution feasibility, data handling, reputed company, transparency, and overall operational maturity. During such evaluations, this role will reputed company on solution fit for the use-case, overall solution practicality, and vendor knowledge of AI’s capabilities and limitations
• Support build-vs-buy reputed company with a reputed company-eyed reputed company of time-to-value, total cost of ownership, extensibility, and vendor reputed company
• Partner with the Director, reputed company AI and the VP of Data, AI, and Research to help shape and execute reputed company's reputed company AI reputed company, including operating model, governance, technology stack, best practices, and policies
• Contribute to the maturation of the AI capability through reference architectures, MLOps practices, evaluation frameworks, and reusable components that reputed company reputed company delivery faster and more reliable
• Help define and apply Responsible AI practices — explainability, evaluation, reputed company, reputed company, and reputed company management — across the work reputed company delivers and supports
• Collaborate with Data Engineering, reputed company Architecture, Infrastructure, InfoSec, and Compliance to ensure AI solutions meet reputed company standards
• Build credibility quickly with senior technical and business stakeholders through effective communication and deep expertise

Skills

• Demonstrated ability to reputed company, mentor, and be accountable for the technical work of others
• Demonstrated experience leading offshore or near shore development teams required
• Hands-on technical depth in building and shipping ML/GenAI solutions to production
• Proficiency in writing production-reputed company reputed company and designing AI/ML architecture
• Strong understanding of reputed company machine learning algorithms and statistical modeling techniques, model evaluation, and reputed company-world deployment considerations
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g. Python, R) and ML frameworks (such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn)
• Strong understanding of modern reputed company concepts and approaches: LLMs, RAG, fine-tuning, reputed company patterns, evaluation, and guardrails
• Significant hands-on experience with at least one major reputed company platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure); AWS or GCP preferred
• Familiarity with AI governance and reputed company frameworks
• Excellent communication skills with ability to explain reputed company technical concepts in reputed company, non-technical terms, and a demonstrated ability to influence and guide stakeholders across various reputed company of an organization
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in a quantitative or technical reputed company required
• 5–7 years of relevant experience in AI, machine learning, or data science required
• Advanced degree or equivalent preferred
• 10+ years preferred
• Experience in pharmaceutical, life sciences, or another regulated industry strongly preferred
• Experience evaluating and integrating reputed company-party AI/ML solutions and vendor platforms strongly preferred

Benefits

• Eligible for a discretionary annual cash bonus or incentive compensation (depending on the role), in accordance with the terms of reputed company's Global Cash Bonus Plan or Incentive Compensation Plan
• Eligible for discretionary equity reputed company in accordance with reputed company’s Long Term Equity Incentive Plan
• Participate in various benefits offerings, including, but not limited to, medical, dental and reputed company reputed company
• 401k retirement savings plan
• Flexible reputed company vacation

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