Senior AI Engineer – Drug Discovery (Hybrid, Dublin)

IE02 (FCRS = IE002) Novartis Ireland Ltd; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 63,000 - 118,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Insurance plans

Retirement plans

Wellbeing resources

Global recognition

Flexible and hybrid work

Parental leave (14 weeks)

Job summary

Novartis Ireland Ltd in Dublin is seeking a Senior Expert in AI-Engineering to translate cutting-edge AI research into scalable, production-ready tools for drug discovery. You will design, train, and deploy ML models, collaborating with scientists and AI experts to ensure reproducibility and efficiency.

The role requires at least 4 years in ML, strong Python/PyTorch or JAX skills, and experience with large models and MLOps.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years of experience building, training, and deploying machine learning models with measurable real-world impact.
• Deep proficiency in Python and frameworks such as PyTorch or JAX; expertise in model design and optimization.
• Proven experience fine-tuning and deploying large pre-trained and foundation models including language and scientific models.
• Strong understanding of model evaluation including benchmarking, cross-validation, and performance across data distributions.
• Experience with distributed training and large-scale computing environments for high-performance model training.
• Hands-on expertise optimizing models and pipelines for latency, throughput, cost, and production performance.
• Experience with MLOps practices including experiment tracking, model versioning, reproducibility, and cloud deployment.
• Strong problem-solving, collaboration, and communication skills with ability to drive engineering excellence in complex environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and train advanced machine learning models for drug discovery, including deep learning and graph-based architectures.
• Own end-to-end model lifecycle from problem definition to production deployment and continuous improvement.
• Conduct rigorous benchmarking, validation, and performance evaluation against scientific and business objectives.
• Deploy scalable, reliable model inference services meeting latency, throughput, and cost requirements.
• Build automated training, retraining, and monitoring pipelines including model drift detection mechanisms.
• Optimize models and pipelines for performance, reliability, and scalability across production environments.
• Establish and promote engineering best practices for reproducibility, testing, and deployment standards.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate research innovations into production-ready AI solutions.
• Partner with scientific experts to validate models against biological and chemical benchmarks.
• Mentor teams and contribute to raising engineering excellence across the AI for Research organization.

Skills

Python

PyTorch

JAX

ML/LLM

NLP

Graph Algorithms

Data Science

Data Visualization

MLOps

Model Evaluation

Job description

Novartis Ireland Ltd in Dublin is seeking a Senior Expert in AI-Engineering to translate cutting-edge AI research into scalable, production-ready tools for drug discovery. You will design, train, and deploy ML models, collaborating with scientists and AI experts to ensure reproducibility and efficiency.

The role requires at least 4 years in ML, strong Python/PyTorch or JAX skills, and experience with large models and MLOps.