Senior AI Engineer - Drug Discovery & MLOps

Novartis Ireland; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 63,000 - 118,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Parental leave

Competitive benefits

Job summary

Novartis is seeking a Senior Expert in AI-Engineering in Dublin to transform cutting-edge machine learning models into scalable, production-ready solutions for drug discovery. You will design, train, and deploy advanced AI models while collaborating with scientists to validate benchmarks and ensure reproducibility.

You will lead end-to-end model lifecycles, optimize for latency and cost, and contribute to engineering excellence in a hybrid work environment with flexible arrangements.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years of experience building, training, and deploying ML 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 ML models for drug discovery, including deep learning and graph architectures
• Own end-to-end model lifecycle from problem definition to production deployment and updates
• Conduct benchmarking, validation, and performance evaluation against scientific and business goals
• Deploy scalable model inference services meeting latency, throughput, and cost requirements
• Build automated training, retraining, and monitoring pipelines with drift detection
• Optimize models and pipelines for performance, reliability, and scalability in production
• Establish best practices for reproducibility, testing, and deployment standards
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate research into production-ready AI solutions
• Partner with scientific experts to validate models against biological benchmarks
• Mentor teams and raise engineering excellence across the AI for Research org

Skills

Python

PyTorch

JAX

MLOps

Model deployment

Benchmarking

Distributed training

Job description

Novartis is seeking a Senior Expert in AI-Engineering in Dublin to transform cutting-edge machine learning models into scalable, production-ready solutions for drug discovery. You will design, train, and deploy advanced AI models while collaborating with scientists to validate benchmarks and ensure reproducibility.

You will lead end-to-end model lifecycles, optimize for latency and cost, and contribute to engineering excellence in a hybrid work environment with flexible arrangements.