Director, Autonomous Lab AI & Discovery

Biopharma Careers; Pennsylvania; Presencial; USD 164.000 - 283.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Competitive compensation

Performance bonus

Health benefits

Descripción de la vacante

Johnson &Johnson Innovative Medicine in the Spring House, PA area seeks a Director of Physical AI for Autonomous Discovery to define the AI strategy and lead a team developing models that enable autonomous laboratory experimentation. This role blends AI, robotics, and lab automation to create systems that perceive, reason, act, learn, recover from errors, and continuously improve experimental outcomes.

You will partner with automation, robotics, data science, engineering, and discovery

Formación

• PhD in AI, ML, robotics, CS, engineering, computational biology, or related field.
• Demonstrated experience developing AI systems in physical or scientific environments.
• Strong software development skills, including Python and ML frameworks.

Responsabilidades

• Define and execute the Physical AI strategy; build and lead a high-performing team.
• Develop AI models that understand instruments, samples, reagents, robotics, workflows, and laboratory state.
• Create adaptive experimental optimization using active learning, Bayesian optimization, RL, and multi-objective optimization.
• Develop systems for anomaly detection, fault diagnosis, and recovery planning in laboratory contexts.
• Design agentic AI that coordinates planning, execution, data interpretation, and decision-making across cycles.
• Collaborate with automation, robotics, data science, engineering, and discovery scientists to deploy closed-loop learning.

Conocimientos

Advanced Analytics

Budget Management

Compliance Management

Critical Thinking

Data Analysis

Data Privacy

Data Quality

Data Visualization

Data Science

Leadership

Program Management

Strategic Thinking

Educación

PhD in artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, computer science, engineering, computational biology, or related field

Herramientas

Python

Descripción del empleo

Johnson &Johnson Innovative Medicine in the Spring House, PA area seeks a Director of Physical AI for Autonomous Discovery to define the AI strategy and lead a team developing models that enable autonomous laboratory experimentation. This role blends AI, robotics, and lab automation to create systems that perceive, reason, act, learn, recover from errors, and continuously improve experimental outcomes.

You will partner with automation, robotics, data science, engineering, and discovery