Head of AI Platform & Agentic Engineering

Merck & Co.; Cambridge (MA); Ibrido; USD 194.000 - 306.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Merck & Co. seeks a Director of AI Platform & Agentic Engineering to lead the development of scalable AI/ML infrastructure, data platforms, and agentic AI capabilities for rapid discovery across multimodal datasets and knowledge graphs.

The role combines hands‑on leadership across software and data engineering, foundation models, and scalable compute, with mentoring of engineers and collaboration with scientists to translate AI advances into laboratory and research applications.

Competenze

• PhD with 6+ years or Master’s with 10+ years of industry experience.
• Experience building AI/ML infrastructure, scientific software, or HPC environments.
• Experience with cloud and computing technologies: AWS, Databricks, Spark, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub, CI/CD.
• Strong software engineering, Python, AI/ML frameworks, and modern architecture.
• Experience developing GenAI and agentic AI systems (e.g., LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen).
• Experience with RAG, vector databases, knowledge graphs, and agent orchestration.
• Strong communication across scientific, engineering, and technology teams.

Mansioni

• Build and evolve the AI/ML research environment and tooling connecting scientists to data, compute, and models.
• Enable foundation model training, fine‑tuning, evaluation, and agentic AI frameworks with tool integration and human‑in‑the‑loop workflows.
• Partner with IT to provide flexible access to cloud, Databricks, GPUs, and HPC environments.
• Own the SDLC for shared AI/ML tools, setting standards for architecture, testing, CI/CD, reproducibility, security, and maintainability.
• Mentor engineers and support scientists translating AI approaches into scientific applications.

Conoscenze

AI/ML infrastructure

Python

Multimodal data

Knowledge graphs

Agentic AI

Formazione

PhD in CS/EE/DS/AI/Math

Master’s +10 years experience

Strumenti

AWS

Databricks

Spark

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub

CI/CD

Descrizione del lavoro

Merck & Co. seeks a Director of AI Platform & Agentic Engineering to lead the development of scalable AI/ML infrastructure, data platforms, and agentic AI capabilities for rapid discovery across multimodal datasets and knowledge graphs.

The role combines hands‑on leadership across software and data engineering, foundation models, and scalable compute, with mentoring of engineers and collaboration with scientists to translate AI advances into laboratory and research applications.