Director, AI Foundations Engineering

🕒 August 21

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $194.6k - $361.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🖥 Software Engineer

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Novartis

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1996

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

🏭 Manufacturing

Healthcare • Consulting • Manufacturing

Novartis is an innovative medicines company dedicated to reimagining medicine to improve and extend people’s lives. With a presence in over 250 million patients worldwide, Novartis focuses on harnessing scientific breakthroughs to develop transformative, high-value treatments in areas such as cardiovascular, renal and metabolic diseases, immunology, neuroscience, and oncology. The company is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and aims to create a positive impact through societal contributions and environmental sustainability efforts. Furthermore, Novartis engages in research collaborations and embraces modern technology platforms to advance their research and development capabilities, making them a leader in the global healthcare industry.

📋 Description

• Lead the design, development, and ongoing improvement of the organization's AI foundations • Define and implement an agentic AI foundational system, engineering standards, and development practices • Partner with product, data, infrastructure, security, and business teams to align platform capabilities with enterprise needs • Oversee engineering teams building reusable platform services, tools, and components for agentic AI products and workflows • Drive modernization and integration efforts connecting existing systems and processes with AI capabilities • Monitor agentic operations and user feedback to identify improvements and resolve issues • Establish operating models, support processes, and governance practices for consistent AI capability delivery • Communicate platform priorities, delivery progress, technical risks, and investment needs to senior leaders and cross functional stakeholders

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor degree required; advanced degree preferred, ideally in business, engineering, computer science, data science, or a related field • 8 plus years of AI engineering experience • Strong track record of leading product strategy, roadmap development, and delivery for complex digital, data, or AI enabled products • Demonstrated experience in AI and data driven product environments • Experience translating business needs into scalable product solutions • Experience partnering closely with technical teams to bring innovative products to market • Strong cross functional leadership skills • Proven ability to collaborate across Engineering, Innovation, Design, Data Science, Commercial, and other business teams • Experience managing and developing product managers or junior product leaders • Experience with coaching, prioritization support, and fostering strong product management practices • Excellent strategic, analytical, and communication skills • Ability to evaluate opportunities, make informed tradeoffs, and communicate product vision, priorities, and outcomes • Remote work must be based in the U.S.; relocation is not provided

🏖️ Benefits

• Performance-based cash incentive • Eligibility to be considered for annual equity awards, depending on the level of the role • Health benefits • Life benefits • Disability benefits • 401(k) with company contribution and match • Vacation • Personal days • Holidays • Other leaves • Reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities