Director, AI Agentic Lab — Prototyping & Enterprise AI

U014 (FCRS = US014) Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation; United States; Remote; USD 195,000 - 361,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Job summary

Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation seeks a Director, Agentic Lab, to lead design, prototyping, and validation of next-generation AI agents and autonomous workflows. Remote work is possible within the United States; some entity restrictions apply.

You will evaluate emerging AI technologies, develop reusable reference implementations, and partner with AI Engineering, Platform Engineering, Product, and Architecture teams to productionize successful prototypes. Travel up to 10% may be required.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience building AI/ML or software solutions with technical leadership.
• Hands-on expertise with LLMs and agent frameworks, RAG, and vector databases.
• Strong software engineering background and production-grade AI experience.
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead rapid prototyping and technical validation of agentic AI solutions and autonomous workflows.
• Evaluate foundation models, agent frameworks, orchestration technologies, and developer tooling.
• Develop reusable proof-of-concepts, accelerators, and reference implementations for the Agentic Factory.
• Partner with AI Engineering, Platform Engineering, Product, and Architecture teams to productionize prototypes.
• Define best practices for prompt engineering, reasoning strategies, memory architectures, evaluation, and observability.
• Contribute to enterprise standards, documentation, and reusable engineering patterns for AI agents.
• Mentor AI engineers and foster experimentation and continuous learning.

Skills

LLMs

Agent frameworks

RAG

Vector databases

APIs

Python

Cloud-native development

Software engineering

Communication

Education

Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline

Tools

None

Job description

Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation seeks a Director, Agentic Lab, to lead design, prototyping, and validation of next-generation AI agents and autonomous workflows. Remote work is possible within the United States; some entity restrictions apply.

You will evaluate emerging AI technologies, develop reusable reference implementations, and partner with AI Engineering, Platform Engineering, Product, and Architecture teams to productionize successful prototypes. Travel up to 10% may be required.