Director, AI Platform & Agentic AI

MSD; Cambridge (MA); Hybrid; USD 194,000 - 306,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k)

Paid holidays

Vacation

Sick days

Job summary

MSD is seeking a Director of AI Platform & Agentic Engineering to lead the creation of scalable AI/ML infrastructure and agentic AI capabilities. You will oversee training, evaluation, tool integration, and human‑in‑the‑loop workflows, collaborating across biology, engineering, and IT teams.

You will guide cloud/hpc resources, establish standards for software architecture, and mentor a team of engineers and scientists to rapidly translate AI advances into practical biomedical discoveries.

Qualifications

• PhD or MS with extensive industry experience in AI/ML infrastructure or scientific software.
• Experience building AI/ML infrastructure and high-performance computing environments.
• Proficiency with cloud and computing tech (AWS, Databricks, Spark; Docker; Kubernetes; GitHub; CI/CD).
• Strong software engineering expertise in Python and modern software architecture.
• Experience developing GenAI and agentic AI systems (LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen or equivalents).
• Experience with RAG, vector databases, knowledge graphs and agent orchestration.
• Strong communication skills across scientific, engineering, and technology teams.

Responsibilities

• AI Platform & Research Engineering: Build and evolve the AI/ML research environment and tooling.
• Foundation Models & Agentic AI: Enable training, fine‑tuning, evaluation and agent frameworks.
• Scientific Computing: Provide access to cloud, Databricks, GPUs and HPC resources.
• Agile Engineering: Own SDLC for shared AI/ML tools with robust architecture, testing, CI/CD and security.
• Technical Leadership: Mentor engineers and translate AI advances into scientific applications.

Skills

Python

AI/ML frameworks

Software architecture

GenAI & agentic AI

Knowledge graphs

RAG & vector databases

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

PhD in Computer Science or related

MS in a STEM field

Tools

AWS

Databricks

Spark

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub

CI/CD

Job description

MSD is seeking a Director of AI Platform & Agentic Engineering to lead the creation of scalable AI/ML infrastructure and agentic AI capabilities. You will oversee training, evaluation, tool integration, and human‑in‑the‑loop workflows, collaborating across biology, engineering, and IT teams.

You will guide cloud/hpc resources, establish standards for software architecture, and mentor a team of engineers and scientists to rapidly translate AI advances into practical biomedical discoveries.