Senior Expert (AI Engineering) — Novartis
- Location
- Basel (City)
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- 29 days ago
Role overview
Salary Range
CHF102,200.00
CHF189,800.00 Job Description Summary Job Title: Senior Expert (AI Engineering) LI-Hybrid Location: Basel, Switzerland
- Salary Range:
- CHF102,200.00
- Key Responsibilities
- Design and train advanced machine learning models for drug discovery, including deep learning and graph-based architectures
Main responsibilities
- Key Responsibilities
- Design and train advanced machine learning models for drug discovery, including deep learning and graph-based architectures
- Own end-to-end model lifecycle from problem definition to production deployment and continuous improvement
- Conduct rigorous benchmarking, validation, and performance evaluation against scientific and business objectives
- Deploy scalable, reliable model inference services meeting latency, throughput, and cost requirements
- Build automated training, retraining, and monitoring pipelines including model drift detection mechanisms
- Optimize models and pipelines for performance, reliability, and scalability across production environments
- Establish and promote engineering best practices for reproducibility, testing, and deployment standards
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate research innovations into production-ready AI solutions
- Partner with scientific experts to validate models against biological and chemical benchmarks
Application process
- Novartis is unable to offer relocation support: please only apply if accessible.
- Imagine shaping how breakthrough medicines are discovered by bringing cutting-edge AI from concept to real-world application.
- As a Senior Expert in AI-Engineering, you will sit at the critical intersection of innovation and delivery—transforming advanced machine learning models into scalable, reliable solutions that accelerate drug discovery.
- Collaborating with leading scientists and AI experts, you will drive the translation of pioneering research into impactful tools, ensuring models are reproducible, efficient, and ready to solve complex biomedical challenges.
- This is an opportunity to directly influence how modern AI reshapes scientific discovery and improves patient outcomes. Job Description
Company and context
- Mentor teams and contribute to raising engineering excellence across the AI for Research organization Essential Requirements
- Minimum four years of experience building, training, and deploying machine learning models with measurable real-world impact
- Deep proficiency in Python and frameworks such as PyTorch or JAX; expertise in model design and optimization
- Proven experience fine-tuning and deploying large pre-trained and foundation models including language and scientific models
- Strong understanding of model evaluation including benchmarking, cross-validation, and performance across data distributions
- Experience with distributed training and large-scale computing environments for high-performance model training
- Hands-on expertise optimizing models and pipelines for latency, throughput, cost, and production performance
- Experience with MLOps practices including experiment tracking, model versioning, reproducibility, and cloud deployment
- Strong problem-solving, collaboration, and communication skills with ability to drive engineering excellence in complex environments Rewards
- At Novartis, we’re committed to reimagining medicine together - and rewarding the people who make it happen.
Additional details
- Job Description Summary Job Title: Senior Expert (AI Engineering) Location: Basel, Switzerland
- This is an opportunity to directly influence how modern AI reshapes scientific discovery and improves patient outcomes.
- Mentor teams and contribute to raising engineering excellence across the AI for Research organization Essential Requirements
- Strong problem-solving, collaboration, and communication skills with ability to drive engineering excellence in complex environments
- The salary offered is determined based on gender-neutral objectives, such as relevant skills, competencies and experience in accordance with the Novartis pay setting policy and upon joining Novartis will be reviewed periodically.
Notes and original content
- CHF189,800.00
- Job Description Summary
- Job Title: Senior Expert (AI Engineering)
- Location: Basel, Switzerland
- Job Description
- Mentor teams and contribute to raising engineering excellence across the AI for Research organization
- Essential Requirements
- In addition
Questions about this listing
What salary does Novartis offer for this role?
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Is this a full-time role, and what type of contract does Novartis offer?
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