Director and Group Head, Applied AI — Novartis
- Location
- Basel (City)
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- 22 days ago
Role overview
Salary Range
CHF1,46,300.00
CHF2,71,700.00 Job Description Summary
- Salary Range:
- CHF1,46,300.00
- Key Responsibilities
- Define and lead the applied artificial intelligence strategy and multi-year roadmap across drug discovery research.
Main responsibilities
- Key Responsibilities
- Define and lead the applied artificial intelligence strategy and multi-year roadmap across drug discovery research.
- Align priorities with portfolio needs, scientific opportunities, and measurable business and research impact.
- Lead multidisciplinary teams to identify, prototype, benchmark, and deploy fit-for-purpose artificial intelligence solutions.
- Govern an applied artificial intelligence portfolio with clear intake, prioritization, resourcing, delivery oversight, and success metrics.
- Establish best practices for problem framing, data readiness, benchmarking, evaluation design, and reproducible model development.
- Drive benchmarking of foundation and task-specific models, enabling transparent trade-offs and informed adoption decisions.
- Partner with engineering teams to scale solutions and embed them into day-to-day scientific decision making.
- Define rigorous evaluation metrics linking model performance to downstream decisions and experimental outcomes.
- Build a culture of scientific rigor, rapid iteration, mentorship, and practical impact across teams.
Application process
- Novartis is unable to offer relocation support: please only apply if accessible.
- Proven experience with foundation model benchmarking in drug discovery applications.
- Hands-on experience applying machine learning
Additional details
- Job Description Summary
- Job Title: Director & Group Head (Applied AI) Location: Basel, Switzerland
- This leadership role for the Applied AI group of AI4R will be tasked with strong technical, team and project leadership, aligning with biomedical subject matter experts to deeply understand ML opportunities in drug discovery, assessment of the model landscape, leading model benchmarking, and applying the right AI approaches, algorithms, models and workflows to maximize impact on key domains areas of biomedical research that will potentially lead to developing better drugs, faster.
- Forge strategic academic and industry collaborations to accelerate innovation, benchmarking, and technology transfer. Essential Requirements
Notes and original content
- CHF2,71,700.00
- Job Title: Director & Group Head (Applied AI)
- Location: Basel, Switzerland
- Job Description
- Forge strategic academic and industry collaborations to accelerate innovation, benchmarking, and technology transfer.
- Essential Requirements
Questions about this listing
What salary does Novartis offer for this role?
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