Novartis

Associate Director, AI Engineer

Novartis
Apply
3 days ago
Prague, CzechiaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end architecture, design, development, deployment, monitoring, reliability, and continuous improvement of agentic AI platforms and solutions.
  • Transform drug discovery, scientific research workflows, and lab-in-the-loop processes into scalable agentic AI capabilities.
  • Make architecture decisions for agentic systems and large language model inference at scale on AWS, including Amazon Bedrock and AgentCore.
  • Establish engineering patterns, reference architectures, and standards for AI performance, scalability, security, governance, and maintainability.
  • Define DevOps, MLOps, and AgentOps practices covering infrastructure as code, containerization, reproducible pipelines, versioning, evaluation, and observability.
  • Guide the evaluation, integration, and optimization of AI models, agent orchestration frameworks, and platform components.
  • Partner with product, data, architecture, security, and scientific stakeholders on technical roadmaps and solution priorities.
  • Provide technical leadership through design reviews, coding standards, mentorship, and cross-functional influence rather than direct people management.

Requirements

  • At least 8 years of professional software and/or AI engineering experience, including production-grade AI delivery and hands-on technical leadership.
  • Deep hands-on experience building AI agents on AWS, including Amazon Bedrock capabilities and Bedrock AgentCore.
  • Proficiency with at least one agent framework such as Strands, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, or custom orchestration.
  • Strong Python expertise and experience with AWS services including Lambda, Step Functions, ECS/EKS, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, and IAM.
  • Experience with retrieval-augmented generation, chunking, embeddings, vector stores such as OpenSearch or pgvector, and tool use or function calling.
  • Deep DevOps/MLOps expertise covering CI/CD, infrastructure as code with CDK or Terraform, containers, orchestration, reproducible pipelines, AI evaluation, and observability.
  • Ability to translate ambiguous business or scientific problems into secure, resilient production systems with guardrails, error handling, and governance.
  • Ability to set technical direction, make design decisions, and communicate complex technical trade-offs to technical and business stakeholders.
  • Preferred experience with AI coding tools, AgentOps, AI governance and compliance in regulated or life-sciences environments, and awareness of the EU AI Act.

Benefits

  • Annual base salary range of 1,354,220 CZK to 2,514,980 CZK, with potential performance-based bonus eligibility.
  • Insurance plans, retirement plans, wellbeing resources, and global recognition programs.
  • Flexible and hybrid working options where possible; the role is associated with Prague, Czech Republic or Basel, Switzerland.
  • Minimum of 14 weeks of paid parental leave.
  • Benefits and compensation vary by country and applicable local legal requirements.

Tech Stack

Amazon DynamoDBAWSC++PythonSpring BootTerraform
Novartis

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

Contact me