Director R&D AI Systems

Director, R&D AI Systems

We are searching for the best talent for Director, R&D AI Systems to be located in Titusville, NJ, Spring House, PA or Raritan, NJ.

The Director, R&D AI Systems is responsible for leading the technology capabilities that operationalize AI, GenAI, LLM, agentic, knowledge graph, and model lifecycle platforms across Innovative Medicine R&D. The role ensures that AI products move from experimentation to reliable, secure, governed, scalable, observable, and cost-effective production services.

This leader partners across DDSAI (R&D DATA SCIENCE TEAM), Technology Services, Information Security & Risk Management, Enterprise Architecture, data product teams, model builders, product owners, and business stakeholders to run an integrated Data & AI operating model. The role translates AI use cases, model evaluation needs, and business priorities into production-grade platforms, engineering practices, deployment patterns, and operational controls.

The role is accountable for MLOps and LLMOps management, model and agent deployment, agentic platform operations, knowledge graph enablement, AI engineering best practices, AI scorecards, token cost management, security red-teaming, third-party model licensing and SLAs, enterprise GenAI governance, and approved agentic development patterns.