AI Catalyst & Design Intelligence Manager

AbbVie; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Medical/dental/vision insurance

401(k)

Job summary

AbbVie is seeking a Manager, Design Intelligence & AI Catalyst to build, deploy, and maintain M&S and AI solutions that support decision-making within Data & Statistical Sciences. This role sits in the DAIA team and focuses on crafting tools that range from R packages to dashboards and agentic AI frameworks.

Applicants should have strong R development skills, experience with interactive dashboards, and familiarity with agentic AI, with knowledge of clinical development processes a plus.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Statistics, Data Science, CS, or a related quantitative discipline.
• 5–7 years of experience OR PhD in Statistics, Data Sciences, Computer Science, or related field with 2+ years.
• Strong hands-on development experience in R.
• Experience building interactive dashboards and data applications.
• Experience with agentic AI development (tool-use agents, orchestration frameworks, retrieval-augmented generation).
• Good statistical knowledge to ensure analytical rigor in delivered solutions.
• Familiarity with clinical development processes and trial design concepts.
• Software engineering best practices (version control, testing, CI/CD).
• Ability to evaluate trade-offs between solution approaches and calibrate complexity.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain solutions for prioritized M&S and AI use cases, from R packages and dashboards to agentic AI frameworks.
• Build tools and solutions that address adoption gaps, ensuring delivered capabilities meet end-user needs.
• Conduct upfront feasibility assessments and architect solution design — documenting design rationale for when to use deterministic approaches, interactive dashboards, or LLM-powered agentic workflows.
• Create and maintain comprehensive benchmark test sets to ensure output quality, accuracy, and reproducibility.
• Maintain and iterate on deployed tools based on user feedback, bug reports, and evolving requirements.
• Translate requirements into production-ready solutions through iterative collaboration with stakeholders.

Skills

R programming

Dashboards

Agentic AI

Statistics

Clinical development

CI/CD

Communication

Decision making

Education

Master’s in Statistics/Data Science/CS

PhD in related field

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Job description

AbbVie is seeking a Manager, Design Intelligence & AI Catalyst to build, deploy, and maintain M&S and AI solutions that support decision-making within Data & Statistical Sciences. This role sits in the DAIA team and focuses on crafting tools that range from R packages to dashboards and agentic AI frameworks.

Applicants should have strong R development skills, experience with interactive dashboards, and familiarity with agentic AI, with knowledge of clinical development processes a plus.