Senior AI/ML Engineer

6090-Johnson & Johnson Services Inc. Legal Entity; Titusville (NJ); Hybrid; USD 155,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Johnson & Johnson is seeking a Senior AI/ML Engineer in Titusville, NJ to lead end-to-end AI/ML initiatives and ML product engineering across the enterprise.

You will build and scale ML pipelines, enable ML Ops, and partner with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful AI solutions within healthcare.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Business Analytics, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics, or related field and 3 years of relevant experience.
• Experience building end-to-end AI/ML data products from POC to production.
• Proficient in Python or R with ML packages and frameworks.
• Experience setting up and managing CI/CD pipelines with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Jenkins, GitLab.
• Ability to design and deploy ML models including NLP/GenAI and ML Ops concepts.

Responsibilities

• Shape and develop AI/ML initiatives across J&J Innovative Medicine.
• Lead end-to-end ML product engineering from concept to production.
• Define SDLC standards, code reviews, CI/CD, and deployment practices.
• Build predictive models and agent tools; ensure quality and compliance.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and senior leaders on AI solutions.

Skills

End-to-end data products

Python or R

CI/CD pipelines

ML models & NLP

AI/ML leadership & PM

Education

Master's degree in related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

Jenkins

GitLab

Job description

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions 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 Science

Job Category: Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations: Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

Employer: Johnson & Johnson Services, Inc.

Job Title: Senior AI/ML Engineer

Job Code: A011.10000

Job Location: Titusville, NJ

Job Type: Full-Time

Rate of Pay: $155,000 - $175,000

Job Duties: Shape and develop AI/ML and other Data Science initiatives across J&J Innovative Medicine. Serve as subject matter expert in ML Engineering with a focus on end-to-end product engineering. Help shape the software development lifecycle of data science products including but not limited to coding best practices, technical back-end support, CI/CD frameworks, and model monitoring. Create end-to-end AI/ML pipelines that integrate seamlessly into products through the product lifecycle, starting from proof-of-concept (POC) phase, moving into production, scaling, ongoing enhancements, and maintenance (ML Operations). Partner with senior leaders and peers across technology and business functions to shape new AI and ML solutions and operations. Partner closely with cross-functional technical teams to ensure strong delivery. Play a key role in the AI-enabled transformation of Commercial engagement through personal and non-personal channels, and other high visibility projects that drive impact for patients and for J&J Innovative Medicine. Coordinate technical seminars, training sessions, and workshops focused on AI/ML to enhance the skills of data scientists, data engineers, and other technology professionals across the organization. Design and build predictive ML models that identify and prioritize patients and healthcare providers most relevant to specific medicines, brands, and therapeutic areas, in order to predict clinically and commercially significant outcomes such as patient-identification and therapy-tolerance model products. Design and build Agentic AI systems built on large and small language models (LLMs and SLMs) that autonomously carry out multi-step commercial-engagement and analytics workflows, together with engineering platforms required to operate, evaluate, and measure those systems reliably and in compliance with healthcare-data regulations. Partner with engineering and infrastructure leaders, external data-science and platform-engineering vendor teams, and commercial business stakeholders to define what each system must do and how its quality and business value are measured. Shape and develop AI/ML and data science initiatives including individual modeling programs (such as the hematology/oncology patient-identification and therapy-tolerance modeling programs) and enterprise AI-platform initiatives (such as the agent-evaluation framework, the conversational-analytics platform, and the Agent observability platform), spanning the full range from early problem framing and architecture through hands-on implementation and production deployment. Design and build the core models, pipelines, frameworks, and agent tools; define their technical architecture and data schemas; write and integrate production code; and establish the engineering standards for the team. Design, build, and validate the core components of end-to-end AI/ML product pipelines, including for model development, agent evaluation, conversational analytics, and agentic data pipelines. Define SDLC coding and architecture standards; establish code-review and pull-request workflows and integration standards; define CI/CD and containerized deployment practices. Design evaluation and quality gates that determine whether a model or AI agent is reliable enough to promote to production. Define production monitoring and ongoing evaluation to detect and correct production issues after deployment. May telecommute per company policy (hybrid).

Requirements: Employer will accept a Master's degree in Business Analytics, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics, or related field and 3 years of experience in the job offered or in a Senior AI/ML Engineer-related occupation.

1. Building end-to-end data products, from POC stage through the full product life cycle including operationalization and scaling;
2. Python or R along with associated machine learning packages TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Keras;
3. Setting up, configuring, and managing CI/CD pipelines to ensure smooth and efficient software development workflows, with frameworks including Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Jenkins, and Gitlab;
4. Building and deploying machine learning models including generalized linear regression, logistic regression, XGBoost, random forest, neural networks, NLP, and GenAI or large language model (LLM);
5. AI-enabled transformation and thought leadership, including project management.

This job posting is anticipated to close on 9/14/2026.

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. Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers or contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)). This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s long-term incentive program. Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, employees are eligible for the following time off benefits:

• Vacation –120 hours per calendar year
• Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Colorado –48 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year
• Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year
• Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
• Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child
• Bereavement Leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member: 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year
• Caregiver Leave – 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period
• 10 days Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year
• Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year

This position is eligible for benefits to include medical, dental, vision and time off, as well as any others as provided for in the applicable Collective Bargaining Agreement. For additional general information on Company benefits, please go to: - https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits

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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 https://www.jnj.com/.

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