Director, Agentic AI and Clinical Trial Platforms

Clario; Canada; On-site; CAD 210,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Clario, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, seeks a Director of Agentic AI and Clinical Trial Platforms to lead strategy and development of AI-enabled clinical-trial capabilities in the cloud. The role combines hands-on AI/ML platform experience with strong leadership to drive scalable, secure, compliant cloud services and governance across therapeutic areas.

The ideal candidate will mentor teams, partner with product, regulatory, and commercial stakeholders, and translate clinical needs into

Qualifications

• Experience leading AI/data science teams in a tech-driven environment.
• Hands-on design/build/deploy of cloud-based AI/ML platforms, preferably AWS.
• Ability to translate clinical, product, and business needs into platform strategy.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI org including engineers and data scientists to deliver scalable AI solutions.
• Drive strategy, architecture, and development of the AI Agent platform across products and data systems.
• Oversee multimodal AI services involving text, data, audio, and sensor types.
• Partner with stakeholders to identify high-impact AI opportunities and define outcomes.
• Own translation of capabilities into measurable operational and commercial outcomes.

Skills

AI leadership

Cloud architecture

Strategic planning

Stakeholder management

Team mentorship

Education

Advanced degree in CS/Engineering/AI/DataScience

Tools

AWS SageMaker

MLOps

Cloud services

APIs

Job description

Clario, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, is seeking a Director, Agentic AI and Clinical Trial Platforms, to lead the strategy and development of the next generation of AI-enabled clinical-trial capabilities. This role will shape and deliver cloud-based AI platforms and products that accelerate clinical research workflows, improve data quality, and redefine how clinical studies are designed, configured, conducted, and reviewed across therapeutic areas. The Director will combine deep technical expertise with strong leadership, strategic thinking, and stakeholder influence to lead Clario’s Agentic AI organization. The ideal candidate has hands‑on experience building and operating AI/ML platforms in cloud environments, leading high‑performing engineering and AI/data science teams, and translating clinical, product, and business needs into scalable production capabilities.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead the Agentic AI organization, including AI engineers, data scientists, software engineers, and platform engineers, to deliver scalable AI solutions for internal operations and clinical trial applications.
• Drive the strategy, technical architecture, and development of Clario’s AI Agent platform, enabling reusable agents, intelligent automation, human-in-the-loop workflows, and orchestration across Clario’s products, services, data, and enterprise systems.
• Oversee the continued development of multimodal AI services, including solutions involving text, clinical outcomes data, audio, sensor, and other trial-related data types.
• Partner with product, clinical, regulatory, technology, and commercial stakeholders to identify and prioritise high-impact AI opportunities, define clear clinical and business outcomes, and translate them into production‑ready capabilities.
• Own the translation of agentic AI capabilities into measurable operational, product, and customer outcomes, including adoption, workflow efficiency, quality improvement, and commercial differentiation.
• Lead the design and implementation of cloud‑based AI services and platforms using technologies such as AWS SageMaker and related AWS AI/ML services.
• Ensure AI solutions are scalable, secure, compliant, observable, and aligned with clinical trial quality and regulatory expectations.
• Establish best practices for AI development, including scientifically rigorous model and agent evaluation, agent orchestration, MLOps/LLMOps, data governance, monitoring, validation, and responsible AI.
• Serve as a senior technical and strategic partner to the Chief AI Officer, helping shape Clario’s agentic AI vision, clinical‑trial transformation agenda, AI operating model, investment priorities, and technology strategy.
• Mentor and develop team members while fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, accountability, and innovation.

What We Look For

• Significant experience leading AI, machine learning, data science, or advanced analytics teams in a technology‑driven environment.
• Hands‑on expertise designing, building, and deploying cloud‑based AI/ML platforms and services, preferably on AWS.
• Practical experience with AWS SageMaker and related cloud‑native services for AI/ML model development, deployment, monitoring, and automation.
• Practical experience designing and deploying generative AI and agentic systems, including large language models, tool use, retrieval, agent orchestration, evaluation, observability, and production‑grade AI architectures.
• Experience developing multimodal AI solutions involving structured and unstructured data.
• Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives from concept through production deployment.
• Demonstrated ability to translate clinical, customer, product, and business needs into AI platform strategy, technical roadmaps, and investment priorities.
• Strong software engineering and platform architecture background, including APIs, scalable services, security, DevOps/MLOps, and enterprise‑grade cloud systems.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage executive stakeholders, technical teams, customers, and cross‑functional partners.
• Ability to balance innovation with practical delivery, risk management, compliance, and business impact.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in life sciences, clinical trials, regulated healthcare technology, or another highly regulated and data‑intensive industry.
• Familiarity with regulatory considerations, validation practices, privacy, and security requirements.
• Strong experience delivering AI‑enabled SaaS products or enterprise platforms at scale.
• Advanced degree in computer science, engineering, data science, AI/ML, biomedical informatics, or a related field.

At Clario, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, our purpose is to transform lives by unlocking better evidence. It’s a cause that unites and inspires us. It’s why we come to work—and how we empower our people to make a positive impact every day. Whether you’re advancing clinical science, building innovative technology, or supporting our global teams, your work helps bring life‑changing therapies to patients faster.

Clario is an equal opportunity employer.

Clario evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.

Clario Privacy Policy Clario is a leading provider of endpoint data solutions to the clinical trials industry, generating high‑quality clinical evidence for life sciences companies. We offer comprehensive evidence generation solutions that combine medical imaging, eCOA, precision motion, cardiac solutions and respiratory endpoints. For more than 50 years, Clario has delivered deep scientific expertise and broad endpoint technologies to help transform lives around the world. Our endpoint data solutions have supported over 30,000 clinical trials in more than 100 countries. Our global team of science, technology, and operational experts have supported over 70% of all FDA drug approvals since 2015.