Head of AI — Scientific Drug Discovery Platform

AQEMIA; Paris; Hybride; EUR 180 000 - 240 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Flexible remote days

Offices in Paris and London

Résumé du poste

AQEMIA is seeking a Head of AI to lead the foundational models and high‑throughput workflows powering our discovery platform. You will manage and mentor a 10–15 person ML research team, define the roadmap, set priorities, and align across research, engineering, and scientific stakeholders.

You’ll operate at the intersection of frontier machine learning, scientific modeling, and platform design, guiding architectures for complex molecular environments and high‑impact predictions.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or PhD in ML/AI or a computational scientific field.
• 5+ years leading scientific or technical teams, including mentoring and roadmap ownership.
• Deep expertise in machine learning for complex, high‑dimensional data with state‑of‑the-art architectures.
• Strong Python and scientific ML ecosystem experience.
• Experience building predictive models for scientific or structured domains (drug discovery, biology, physics, etc.).

Responsabilités

• Lead AQEMIA’s ML research organisation by managing and growing a 10–15 person team of ML scientists and researchers.
• Own the predictive ML modeling roadmap and align initiatives with platform evolution and company strategy.
• Drive frontier ML innovation across architectures (transformers, GNNs, diffusion models) and techniques.
• Scale high‑throughput ML workflows with production‑ready pipelines for massive chemical spaces.
• Collaborate across chemistry, biology, physics, engineering and leadership to integrate ML insights into discovery workflows.
• Ensure scientific rigor with benchmarking, validation, and robustness across predictive systems.
• Translate research into platform impact to accelerate drug design cycles.

Connaissances

Leadership experience

Advanced ML/AI expertise

Python proficiency

ML for scientific domains

Roadmap ownership

Formation

Master’s or PhD in ML/AI or related field

Description du poste

AQEMIA is seeking a Head of AI to lead the foundational models and high‑throughput workflows powering our discovery platform. You will manage and mentor a 10–15 person ML research team, define the roadmap, set priorities, and align across research, engineering, and scientific stakeholders.

You’ll operate at the intersection of frontier machine learning, scientific modeling, and platform design, guiding architectures for complex molecular environments and high‑impact predictions.