Senior Life Sciences AI Scientist - Production ML Leader

McKinsey & Company; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 176,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

McKinsey & Company is seeking a Senior Data Scientist in North America to lead advanced analytics in Life Sciences and integrate with QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey. You will partner with global teams to deploy production-ready ML solutions that transform commercial workflows for Pharma and MedTech, delivering tangible patient impact.

You will mentor juniors, drive reusable methodologies, and explore emerging technologies with multidisciplinary colleagues across offices including Raleigh.

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in computer science, machine learning, applied statistics, mathematics, engineering, or AI.
• 5+ years of deep technical experience in ML, knowledge graphs, agents, evaluation frameworks for agentic outputs, graph neural networks, DL, CV, and statistics-related work.

Responsibilities

• Partner with global teams to create differentiated advanced analytics and agentic solutions for Life Sciences.
• Transform pilots into production-ready systems that reshape end-to-end commercial workflows.

Skills

Python programming

Communication

Leadership

Travel willingness

English proficiency

Education

Master's or PhD (CS/ML/AI)

Tools

Python (PyTorch/TensorFlow/Keras)

Git

Databricks

Docker

Kubernetes

SQL

AWS

Job description

McKinsey & Company is seeking a Senior Data Scientist in North America to lead advanced analytics in Life Sciences and integrate with QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey. You will partner with global teams to deploy production-ready ML solutions that transform commercial workflows for Pharma and MedTech, delivering tangible patient impact.

You will mentor juniors, drive reusable methodologies, and explore emerging technologies with multidisciplinary colleagues across offices including Raleigh.