Senior AI Safety Scientist – Regulated Pharma R&D

Banco Santander Sa; Madrid; Hybrid; EUR 55,000 - 88,000; Full time

Job summary

Johnson & Johnson is recruiting a Senior Scientist, AI Safety to shape governance for agentic AI in pharmaceutical R&D. The role focuses on deterministic controls, adversarial assurance, and safety-native architecture to ensure safe, compliant AI applications across discovery to regulatory work.

You will work with cross-functional teams to translate scientific and regulatory requirements into testable system specifications and scalable controls within a hybrid, office-plus-remote setup in Madrid

Qualifications

• PhD in computer science or closely related field with research in AI safety/alignment.
• Post‑PhD or industry experience in AI safety, alignment, or regulated domains.
• Strong foundations in policy-as-code, formal methods, and reproducible research.

Responsibilities

• Define governance and deterministic control policies for agentic AI in pharma R&D.
• Develop continuous adversarial assessment and defensible evidence for safety properties.
• Prototype safety-native architectures and test data/model interventions for compliance.
• Collaborate with R&D, engineering, and security to translate safety requirements into scalable controls.

Skills

AI safety

AI alignment

Policy-as-code

Formal specification

Prototyping

Production-ready code

Education

PhD in computer science

Tools

Policy engines

Verification tools

Job description

Johnson & Johnson is recruiting a Senior Scientist, AI Safety to shape governance for agentic AI in pharmaceutical R&D. The role focuses on deterministic controls, adversarial assurance, and safety-native architecture to ensure safe, compliant AI applications across discovery to regulatory work.

You will work with cross-functional teams to translate scientific and regulatory requirements into testable system specifications and scalable controls within a hybrid, office-plus-remote setup in Madrid