Senior Agentic Workflow Engineer, Biologics Discovery

Biopharma Careers; North Carolina; On-site; USD 109,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Johnson & Johnson is seeking a Senior Agentic Workflow Engineer to help build agentic AI workflows for biologics discovery data engine. This role is anchored in the United States with no remote option and may be based at Spring House, PA; Titusville, NJ; Raritan, NJ; Cambridge, MA; or Madrid, Spain.

You will design and maintain agentic workflows, orchestrate data pipelines, and integrate automation software, data stores, models, and compute with the AI/ML teams to accelerate discovery and

Qualifications

• Master's or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related computational field, or equivalent experience.
• At least 2 years of experience building scientific workflow orchestration or automation software.
• Experience applying agentic AI to scientific or laboratory workflows.
• Experience with enterprise GenAI platforms and retrieval-augmented approaches.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work in a matrixed organization.

Responsibilities

• Build and continuously improve agentic workflows for biologics discovery assays.
• Develop real-time pipelines connecting automation software, data stores, models, and compute.
• Collaborate with IT and platform teams to implement APIs, observability, and orchestration.
• Partner with GenAI teams to extend platforms for biology discovery.
• Ensure data quality, provenance, and production deployment of workflows.

Skills

Agentic workflow design

Real-time data pipelines

LLM-based agents

GenAI platforms

MLOps / DevOps

Strong communication

Education

Master's/PhD in CS/Engineering

Tools

Workflow engines

RAG/GraphRAG

Automation software

Job description

At Johnson & Johnson,we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build aworld where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured,where treatments are smarter and less invasive, andsolutions are personal.Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity.Learn more at jnj.com .

As guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world. We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual. At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit.

Job Function:

Data Analytics & Computational Sciences

Job Sub Function:

Data Engineering

Job Category:

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Madrid, Spain, Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America, Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.

Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is seeking a Senior Agentic Workflow Engineer to help build the agentic layer of our Biologics Discovery data engine. This is an opportunity to be one of the early builders of agentic AI workflows that automate secondary data processing, orchestrate analyses, and connect experimental outputs to models and decisions across the DMTL (design-make-test-learn) cycle. You will work at the intersection of scientific experimentation, data pipelines, AI systems, and lab automation, partnering closely with the broader AI/ML team to bring these systems to life.

This position will be based at one of our office locations in either Spring House, PA (strongly preferred), Titusville, NJ, Raritan, NJ, or Cambridge, MA, USA; or at our office in Madrid, Spain. (No remote option.)

Please note that this role is available across multiple countries and may be posted under different requisition numbers to comply with local requirements. While you are welcome to apply to any or all of the postings, we recommend focusing on the specific country(s) that align with your preferred location(s):

USA - Requisition Number: R-095856

Spain - Requisition Number: R-096797

Why this role matters:

Getting biologics data to flow reliably through our systems is a critical, often underestimated challenge, and there is significant opportunity to automate secondary analysis. This role brings hands‑on agentic AI engineering to compress cycle time, reduce manual intervention, and improve reproducibility - building the scalable, connected, intelligent discovery workflows that today's hands‑on processes still lack.

Why This Role Is Unique

This is a rare chance to help build how scientific and physical AI come together to steer design and execution in the lab - contributing hands‑on to one of the first agentic discovery engines in a large pharma setting. As the team and its agentic capabilities grow, this role offers a clear path to increasing scope, technical ownership, and influence.

Position Summary

As a Senior Agentic Workflow Engineer, you will build and maintain agentic workflows and orchestration that support the scientific data analysis and secondary processing logic our team delivers. You will implement automation and AI pipelines connecting automation software, data stores, models, and compute, working closely with senior engineers to translate scientific priorities into working systems.

You will partner across Discovery, Data Science, In Silico Discovery (ISD), our Enterprise Generative AI team, and our data‑infrastructure and lab‑automation teams to help enable closed‑loop feedback so that each experimental cycle improves downstream models and decisions.

Key Responsibilities

Agentic Orchestration & Integration

• Build and continuously improve agentic workflows that automate secondary analysis for biologics discovery assays, replacing fragile manual and ad‑hoc scripted steps.
• Develop and maintain real‑time or near‑real‑time pipelines connecting automation software, data stores, models, and compute environments.
• Partner with IT and platform teams to implement resilient APIs, observability, versioning, and workflow orchestration end‑to‑end.
• Work with our Enterprise Generative AI team to build on shared GenAI platforms, models, and agentic frameworks - extending them for biologics discovery rather than duplicating enterprise capabilities.
• Partner with ontology and MLOps colleagues so automated workflows produce semantically consistent, reusable data and deploy reliably into production.

AI-Driven Scientific Learning

• Contribute to workflows optimized for AI‑driven learning, not just throughput, supporting closed‑loop feedback across the design‑make‑test‑learn (DMTL) cycle.
• Collaborate with discovery scientists, AI/ML scientists, and data engineers so experimental outputs improve downstream property models and decision‑making.
• Help ensure data generated through agentic workflows is high‑quality, traceable, interoperable, and AI‑ready, with strong metadata, provenance, and lineage.
• Identify and propose opportunities to apply agentic AI to compress cycle time and improve reproducibility.

Qualifications

Required

• Master's or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related computational field (or Bachelor's with substantial relevant experience).
• At least 2 years experience building scientific workflow orchestration, or automation software, including experience in agentic workflows.
• Hands‑on experience designing real‑time or near‑real‑time data pipelines and integrating complex and heterogeneous scientific data and instrument outputs.
• Experience applying agentic AI and modern LLM‑based agents (or comparable intelligent‑automation systems) to scientific or laboratory workflows.
• Experience working with enterprise or shared GenAI platforms and retrieval‑augmented approaches (e.g., RAG or GraphRAG) rather than standing up capabilities from scratch.
• Strong communication skills and comfort operating in ambiguity within a matrixed organization.

Preferred

• Experience in drug discovery domains such as biologics, high‑throughput experimentation, or imaging.
• Exposure to lab automation, robotic systems, or cyber‑physical systems for R&D.
• Familiarity with MLOps/DevOps, workflow engines, and production‑grade monitoring/observability.
• Understanding of FAIR data, ontologies, semantic models, lineage/provenance, and AI‑ready data standards.

This position will be based at one of our office locations in either Spring House, PA (strongly preferred), Titusville, NJ, Raritan, NJ, or Cambridge, MA, USA; or at our office in Madrid, Spain. (No remote option.)

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.

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The anticipated base pay range for this position is $109,000 to $174,800. The Company maintains highly competitive, performance‑based compensation programs. Under current guidelines, this position is eligible for an annual performance bonus in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan. The annual performance bonus is a cash bonus intended to provide an incentive to achieve annual targeted results by rewarding for individual and the corporation’s performance over a calendar/performance year. Bonuses are awardedattheCompany’sdiscretiononanindividualbasis. Employees and/or eligible dependents may be eligible to participateinthe followingCompany-sponsoredemployee benefit programs: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long‑term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance.

Employees may be eligible to participate in the following time off benefits:

• Vacation– up to 120 hours per calendar year
• Sick time -up to40hourspercalendaryear
• Holidaypay,includingFloatingHolidays–up to13dayspercalendaryearofWork,PersonalandFamilyTime-up to40hourspercalendaryear

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