Senior GenAI Applications Scientist

Genentech; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 177,000 - 329,000; Full time

Job summary

Genentech, based in South San Francisco, seeks a Sr. Data Scientist - Generative AI Applications within the DDA organization. You will design, build, and optimize intelligent agents and agentic workflows that drive measurable business impact across CMG.

You will collaborate with platform engineers and product owners to deliver secure, production-grade GenAI solutions, with hybrid work arrangements and a strong emphasis on responsible AI, memory strategies, and low-latency operation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering, machine learning, or GenAI application development.
• Hands-on experience designing, building, and deploying LLM-powered agents or agentic workflows in production environments.
• Strong working knowledge of prompting techniques, tool calling, structured outputs, planning mechanisms, RAG, and context management.
• Proficiency in Python, TypeScript, or a comparable production language, alongside experience with agent orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangGraph, LangChain, or custom frameworks).
• Demonstrated expertise designing APIs, tool contracts, asynchronous workflows, and integration patterns for scalable systems.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and deploy intelligent AI agents, orchestration workflows, decision logic, and collaboration patterns for complex enterprise applications.
• Define and implement robust tool schemas, APIs, permissions, error-handling mechanisms, and human-in-the-loop escalation paths for agentic systems.
• Optimize agent behavior across key metrics including accuracy, task completion reliability, latency, cost efficiency, and end-user experience.
• Design effective memory, context retention, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and summarization strategies to enhance agent capabilities.
• Establish comprehensive evaluation frameworks, observability metrics, synthetic test scenarios, and trace analyses to diagnose failure modes and prevent hallucinations.
• Partner with application engineers, platform teams, and business product managers to integrate agentic systems into secure, production-grade enterprise environments.
• Standardize agent development patterns, guardrails, and best practices across the DDA organization.

Skills

5+ years of experience in software/ML/

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

LangGraph

LangChain

Job description

Genentech, based in South San Francisco, seeks a Sr. Data Scientist - Generative AI Applications within the DDA organization. You will design, build, and optimize intelligent agents and agentic workflows that drive measurable business impact across CMG.

You will collaborate with platform engineers and product owners to deliver secure, production-grade GenAI solutions, with hybrid work arrangements and a strong emphasis on responsible AI, memory strategies, and low-latency operation.