Associate Director, AI​/ML Engineering

Position Summary

Associate Director, AI/ML Engineering—hands‑on technical leader designing, architecting, and delivering Generative AI and agentic AI solutions across the enterprise, including safe/reliable deployment in a regulated biopharmaceutical environment.

• Design, build, and deploy agentic AI workflows using multi‑agent orchestration frameworks (e.g., Lang Graph, Auto Gen, CrewAI).
• Architect and implement MCP servers to expose enterprise tools, APIs, and data sources as AI agent capabilities.
• Connect multi‑agent systems to enterprise databases/internal APIs/MCP for grounded, context‑aware, action‑oriented solutions.
• Define data contracts, lineage standards, and quality thresholds with cross‑functional teams.
• Implement agentic memory systems and planning/reasoning loops for reliable autonomous execution.
• Evaluate accuracy, reliability, latency, cost, and safety via benchmarks and red‑teaming.
• Build guardrail frameworks (filtering, moderation, policy enforcement, hallucination detection).
• Develop RAG pipelines (chunking, embeddings, vector stores, retrieval optimization).
• Apply prompt engineering, few‑shot learning, and fine‑tuning for pharma use cases.
• Design, develop, validate, and deploy traditional ML models (classification, regression, clustering, time‑series, survival).
• Build and maintain ML Ops/LLM Ops pipelines (registry, evaluation, prompt/version control, observability, rollback).

• Master’s or PhD in ML/CS/Data Science/IS or related quantitative field.
• 7+ years AI/ML engineering, including 3+ years hands‑on Generative AI and agentic AI.
• Expertise in multi‑agent frameworks (Lang Graph, Auto Gen, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel, or similar).
• Experience building MCP servers and integrating with enterprise data/APIs/tools.
• Strong RAG, embeddings, and vector database experience.
• Proficiency in Python;
  PyTorch/Tensor Flow/scikit‑learn/Hugging Face.
• Experience with ML Ops/LLM Ops lifecycle management, evaluation, and deployment.
• Ability to travel domestically/internationally (as required).
• Experience with RWD/claims/EHR/clinical/translational/biological data is a plus.

• Discretionary bonus and equity; salary range: $172,000–$215,000 USD.
• Medical/dental/vision; employer‑paid life/disability/travel/EAP.
• 401(k) with 1:1 match up to 5%; ESPP.
• 15+ vacation days; 13–15 paid holidays; 10 days paid sick time; paid parental leave.
• Tuition assistance.