Lead, GenAI Standards & Context Intelligence

Merck & Co.; North Wales (Montgomery County); Hybrid; USD 173,000 - 273,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

401(k)

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Merck is seeking an Associate Director to own Agentic Standards and Context Intelligence within the Center of Excellence. You will define enterprise standards, playbooks, and the shared context layer to enable consistent, compliant AI agent behavior across commercial portfolios.

You will partner with Responsible AI, engineering, data, and governance teams to publish and activate standards and context in day-to-day agent development and deployment at scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, IT, or related STEM field.
• Experience defining and driving adoption of technical standards, playbooks, or frameworks in a large, matrixed organization.
• Hands-on understanding of the GenAI agent lifecycle (design, deploy, monitor, improve), including retrieval-augmented generation, tool use, orchestration, evaluation, and guardrails.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve playbooks, specifications, and technical standards across the full agent lifecycle (design, deploy, monitor, improve).
• Lead the strategy for the shared, governed context layer—ontology, knowledge graph, semantic definitions, metric registries, business glossary.
• Elevate context handling as a first-class platform component with instrumentation, versioning, and health metrics.
• Drive adoption of agentic standards across business, CoE, and platform teams with enablement content and starter kits.
• Align CoE standards with enterprise architecture, data, and governance functions.
• Partner with governance, engineering, and platform teams to translate capabilities into reusable patterns.
• Establish metrics for adoption, context quality, and business impact with feedback loops.
• Lead, coach, and scale a team of technical specialists across standards and data disciplines.

Skills

Agentic AI Standards

AI Governance

Governance Frameworks

Knowledge Graphs & Ontology

Semantic Layer Design

Program Management

Stakeholder Relationship Management

Responsible AI

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related STEM field

Job description

Merck is seeking an Associate Director to own Agentic Standards and Context Intelligence within the Center of Excellence. You will define enterprise standards, playbooks, and the shared context layer to enable consistent, compliant AI agent behavior across commercial portfolios.

You will partner with Responsible AI, engineering, data, and governance teams to publish and activate standards and context in day-to-day agent development and deployment at scale.