Director & Group Head (AI-Systems & Scale) — Novartis
- Location
- Basel (City)
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- 34 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 multi-year roadmap for scalable AI systems, platforms, and agentic architectures across research.
Main responsibilities
- Key Responsibilities
- Define and lead the multi-year roadmap for scalable AI systems, platforms, and agentic architectures across research.
Application process
- Novartis is unable to offer relocation support: please only apply if accessible.
- Lead and scale multidisciplinary teams delivering production-grade AI systems and intelligent applications.
- Establish reference architectures for agentic systems, including orchestration, retrieval, memory, and human-in-the-loop controls.
- Build and standardize enterprise agentic platforms with reusable components, workflows, and evaluation frameworks.
- Define and enforce machine learning operations and large language model operations standards across AI systems development.
- Own agent quality and safety engineering, including guardrails, policy enforcement, and failure detection mechanisms.
- Drive scalable deployment strategies, ensuring performance, reliability, cost efficiency, and multi-tenant architecture.
- Define performance metrics linking system effectiveness to scientific outcomes, including accuracy, robustness, and efficiency.
Additional details
- Job Description Summary
- Job Title: Director & Group Head (AI Systems & Scale) Location: Basel, Switzerland
- This is a leadership role for the AI Systems & Scale group within AI4R and will be tasked with strong technical and project leadership, critical assessment and specialized deployment of compute, data, model, code and agentic platforms for rapid enablement and adoption of 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.
- Drive cross-functional collaboration and portfolio management to prioritize high-impact AI system initiatives and reduce duplication. Essential Requirements
Notes and original content
- CHF2,71,700.00
- Job Title: Director & Group Head (AI Systems & Scale)
- Location: Basel, Switzerland
- Job Description
- Drive cross-functional collaboration and portfolio management to prioritize high-impact AI system initiatives and reduce duplication.
- Essential Requirements
Questions about this listing
What salary does Novartis offer for this role?
Novartis lists CHF 85'500 - 129'500 gross per year for this position in Basel (City). This is the salary published in the original listing (or, when the employer omits a figure, a realistic estimate for the role and sector) — the calculator on this site converts it to your actual net take-home once cross-border tax and social contributions are applied.
Is this a full-time role, and what type of contract does Novartis offer?
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