Assoc. Dir, Agentic Standards & Context Intelligence

Merck; North Wales (Montgomery County); On-site; USD 173,000 - 273,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Scorpion Therapeutics is seeking an Associate Director to lead the Agentic Standards & Context Intelligence pillar within the GenAI & Agentic Center of Excellence in Human Health. You will define enterprise standards, playbooks, and shared context frameworks for commercial AI agents.

The role involves leading a technical team, driving adoption of standards, and collaborating with governance and engineering teams across the organization. Hybrid work with travel required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or related STEM; experience in defining technical standards and driving adoption in large, matrixed organizations.
• Hands-on knowledge of GenAI agent lifecycle including retrieval-augmented generation, tool use, and guardrails.
• Expertise in context engineering concepts such as grounding and semantic definitions.
• Stakeholder influence experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop and evolve technical standards across the agent lifecycle.
• Oversee strategy for shared, governed context layers (ontologies, knowledge graphs, semantics).
• Elevate context management as platform infrastructure and promote standards adoption.
• Ensure enterprise alignment and partner with governance and engineering teams.
• Establish metrics for standards and context quality and lead a technical team.

Skills

AI governance

Standards development

Change management

Knowledge graphs

LLMs

Responsible AI

MLOps

Prompt engineering

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science

Bachelor's in Data Science

Job description

Associate Director leading the Agentic Standards & Context Intelligence pillar within the GenAI & Agentic Center of Excellence in Human Health, responsible for defining enterprise standards, playbooks, and shared context frameworks for commercial AI agents.

Responsibilities

• develop and evolve technical standards across the agent lifecycle, oversee strategy for shared, governed context layers (ontologies, knowledge graphs, semantics), elevate context management as platform infrastructure, promote standards adoption, ensure enterprise alignment, partner with governance and engineering teams, establish metrics for standards and context quality, and lead a technical team

Requirements

• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Data Science, or related STEM; experience in defining technical standards and driving adoption in large, matrixed organizations; hands‑on knowledge of GenAI agent lifecycle including retrieval-augmented generation, tool use, and guardrails; expertise in context engineering concepts such as grounding and semantic definitions; stakeholder influence experience

Preferred

• background in regulated industries (pharma, healthcare), ontology/knowledge graph design, data quality metrics, and scaling AI Centers of Excellence

Skills

• AI governance, standards development, change management, cross-functional collaboration, knowledge graphs, LLMs, responsible AI, MLOps, prompt engineering, and stakeholder management

Work setup: hybrid with 10% travel; location in the US or Puerto Rico; salary range $173,200–$272,600; includes bonus and benefits.