Remote Senior Director, Data & AI Engineering

Otsuka America Pharmaceutical Inc.; Richmond (VA); Remote; USD 231,000 - 345,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

401(k) match

Paid holidays

Paid leave

Tuition reimbursement

Student loan assistance

Job summary

Otsuka America Pharmaceutical Inc. seeks a Senior Director, Data and AI Engineering to define and execute data and AI strategy across R&D.

You will lead a team of data engineers and AI specialists, delivering scalable, compliant platforms enabling drug development, clinical trials, and real-world data evidence. This role requires deep expertise in AI, data governance, and Gen AI, with a track record of delivering production-grade AI solutions in regulated environments.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of progressive leadership experience in data engineering, AI/ML, and Gen AI with at least 5 years in senior technical leadership or management roles.
• Strong and demonstrated experience in architecting, building and maintaining large-scale data and AI solutions in a scientific, regulated, or research-heavy environment.
• Strong experience working within the pharmaceutical, biotech, or life sciences industry, particularly within R&D, is highly desirable along with a deep understanding of AI and Machine Learning and its applications in Pharma.
• Proven track record of implementing and deploying Gen AI and large language model (LLM) applications in production environments.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the strategic vision and roadmap for data engineering, AI, and Gen AI capabilities within R&D, aligning with overall business objectives and scientific priorities.
• Lead and deliver the design, development, and deployment of extensible and scalable data engineering for complex R&D Data, pipelines, and architecture for AI applications to support all R&D data AI needs.
• Oversee the implementation of AI and Gen AI use cases from ideation to production deployment, and application life cycle management.
• Lead and deliver data processing, representations, and AI engineering in R&D for applications across clinical trial optimization, patient recruitment, content authoring automation, asset management, pharmacovigilance, quality, regulatory, and enterprise functions.
• Champion engineering best practices, review AI solution architectures, and data & AI observability to ensure technical consistency, scalability, and governance.

Skills

Data engineering

AI/ML engineering

Gen AI

Leadership

Regulatory compliance

R&D data

Stakeholder collaboration

Budget management

Strategic vision

GxP HIPAA

Education

Masters in STEM

PhD preferred

Job description

Otsuka America Pharmaceutical Inc. seeks a Senior Director, Data and AI Engineering to define and execute data and AI strategy across R&D.

You will lead a team of data engineers and AI specialists, delivering scalable, compliant platforms enabling drug development, clinical trials, and real-world data evidence. This role requires deep expertise in AI, data governance, and Gen AI, with a track record of delivering production-grade AI solutions in regulated environments.