Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation is seeking a Director, AI Foundations Engineer to drive the engineering strategy and operational excellence for their AI operating system. This role involves leading the design, development, and improvement of AI foundations, collaborating with various teams to ensure scalable and reliable AI capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development and ongoing improvement of the organization's AI foundations that will enable use cases through a disciplined engineering approach
- Define and implement an agentic AI foundational system, engineering standards, and development practices that promote scalability, reliability, repeatability, and continuous improvement
- Partner with product, data, infrastructure, security, and business teams to align platform capabilities with enterprise needs and strategic priorities
- Oversee engineering teams in building reusable platform services, tools, and components that enable agentic AI products and workflows
- Drive modernization and integration efforts to connect existing systems and processes with AI capabilities
- Monitor agentic operations and user feedback to identify improvements, resolve issues, and support continuous optimization
- Establish effective operating models, support processes, and governance practices to ensure consistent delivery of AI capabilities
- Communicate platform priorities, delivery progress, technical risks, and investment needs to senior leaders and cross functional stakeholders
Skills
- Bachelor degree required
- 8 plus years of AI engineering experience, with a 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, including translating business needs into scalable product solutions and partnering closely with technical teams to bring innovative products to market
- Strong cross functional leadership skills, with proven ability to collaborate effectively across Engineering, Innovation, Design, Data Science, Commercial, and other business teams to drive alignment and execution
- Experience managing and developing product managers or junior product leaders, including coaching, prioritization support, and fostering strong product management practices
- Excellent strategic, analytical, and communication skills, with the ability to evaluate opportunities, make informed tradeoffs, and clearly communicate product vision, priorities, and outcomes to stakeholders
- Advanced degree preferred, ideally in business, engineering, computer science, data science, or a related field
Benefits
- Performance-based cash incentive
- Eligibility to be considered for annual equity awards
- Comprehensive benefits package that includes health, life and disability benefits
- A 401(k) with company contribution and match
- Generous time off package including vacation, personal days, holidays and other leaves
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