Director of Autonomous Lab AI & Discovery

Janssen-Cilag Limited; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 230,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine invites applications for a Director, Physical AI for Autonomous Discovery within the In Silico Drug Discovery team. The preferred location is Spring House, PA, with potential travel and consideration for candidates near Cambridge, MA.

No remote option. The role defines the Physical AI strategy, leading a team that builds models enabling autonomous laboratory experimentation, combining AI, robotics, and scientific reasoning to advance lab-to-life

Qualifications

• Experience leading AI-driven innovation in life sciences.
• Strong background in autonomous laboratory systems and scientific reasoning.
• Ability to translate complex experiments into autonomous workflows.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute Physical AI strategy; build and lead a high-performing team.
• Develop AI models for instruments, samples, reagents, robotics, and workflows.
• Create adaptive optimization using active learning, Bayesian methods, RL, and multi-objective optimization.
• Design agentic systems coordinating planning, execution, data interpretation, and decision-making.

Skills

AI

Robotics

Lab automation

Reinforcement learning

Tools

Python

Job description

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine invites applications for a Director, Physical AI for Autonomous Discovery within the In Silico Drug Discovery team. The preferred location is Spring House, PA, with potential travel and consideration for candidates near Cambridge, MA.

No remote option. The role defines the Physical AI strategy, leading a team that builds models enabling autonomous laboratory experimentation, combining AI, robotics, and scientific reasoning to advance lab-to-life