Principal Agentic AI Engineer for Biologics Discovery

Johnson & Johnson; Spring House (PA); On-site; USD 117,000 - 201,000; Full time

Job summary

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine in the United States is seeking a Principal Agentic Workflow & AI Engineer to design and build agentic workflows and orchestration for biological data. You will translate scientific priorities into automation roadmaps and connect automation software, data stores, models, and compute across the DMTL cycle.

As a senior individual contributor, you will mentor others, set technical direction, and collaborate with Discovery, Data Science, ISD, enterprise GenAI,

Qualifications

• Ph.D. or equivalent in CS/engineering; 3+ years building scientific workflow orchestration.
• Hands-on experience designing real-time data pipelines and integrating heterogeneous scientific data and instrument outputs.
• Experience applying agentic AI and modern LLM-based agents to scientific or laboratory workflows.
• Experience building on GenAI platforms and retrieval-augmented approaches (RAG/GraphRAG).
• Ability to translate scientific objectives into practical, scalable technical solutions and to set direction for others.

Responsibilities

• Design agentic workflows that automate secondary analysis for biologics discovery assays.
• Build real-time pipelines connecting automation software, data stores, models, and compute.
• Collaborate with IT and platform teams to implement APIs, observability, versioning, and orchestration end-to-end.
• Mentor engineers and data scientists and set technical direction.
• Partner across Discovery, Data Science, ISD and AI teams to enable closed-loop feedback.

Skills

Advanced degree (Ph.D. preferred)

Scientific workflow orchestration

Real-time data pipelines

Agentic AI / LLM-based agents

Leadership responsibilities

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

GenAI platforms

RAG / GraphRAG approaches

Job description

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine in the United States is seeking a Principal Agentic Workflow & AI Engineer to design and build agentic workflows and orchestration for biological data. You will translate scientific priorities into automation roadmaps and connect automation software, data stores, models, and compute across the DMTL cycle.

As a senior individual contributor, you will mentor others, set technical direction, and collaborate with Discovery, Data Science, ISD, enterprise GenAI,