Novartis

Senior Expert (AI Engineering)

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Dublin, IrelandSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design and train deep learning and graph-based machine learning models for drug discovery.
  • Own the end-to-end model lifecycle from problem definition through production deployment and continuous improvement.
  • Benchmark, validate, and evaluate models against scientific and business objectives.
  • Deploy scalable model inference services and optimize them for latency, throughput, cost, reliability, and scalability.
  • Build automated training, retraining, monitoring, and model-drift detection pipelines.
  • Apply engineering best practices for reproducibility, testing, and deployment.
  • Collaborate with AI, research, scientific, and cross-functional teams to productionize research innovations.
  • Mentor teams and contribute to engineering excellence across the AI for Research organization.

Requirements

  • At least 4 years of experience building, training, and deploying machine learning models with measurable real-world impact.
  • Deep proficiency in Python and frameworks such as PyTorch or JAX, with expertise in model design and optimization.
  • Experience fine-tuning and deploying large pre-trained and foundation models, including language and scientific models.
  • Strong understanding of model evaluation, benchmarking, cross-validation, and performance across data distributions.
  • Experience with distributed training and large-scale computing environments.
  • Hands-on experience optimizing models and pipelines for latency, throughput, cost, and production performance.
  • Experience with MLOps practices including experiment tracking, model versioning, reproducibility, and cloud deployment.
  • Strong problem-solving, collaboration, and communication skills, with the ability to drive engineering excellence.
  • Desired skills include biostatistics, data science, data governance, data quality, data visualization, graph algorithms, machine learning algorithms, statistical analysis, SQL, R, and time-series analysis.

Benefits

  • Competitive benefits including insurance plans, retirement plans, wellbeing resources, and global recognition programs.
  • Flexible and hybrid working options where possible.
  • Minimum of 14 weeks paid parental leave.
  • Performance-based bonus eligibility in addition to base salary.
  • The role is based in Dublin, Ireland, is hybrid, and does not offer relocation support.

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About Novartis

10,000+ employees

Novartis is an innovative medicines company. Every day, working to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives so that patients, healthcare professionals and societies are empowered in the face of serious disease. Our medicines reach more than 250 million people worldwide. Find out more at https://www.novartis.com See our community guidelines: https://go.novartis.social/3Nboxki

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