Director Computational Science

Director of Computational Science

About Sanofi:

We are an innovative global healthcare company, driven by one purpose: we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. Our team, across some 100 countries, is dedicated to transforming the practice of medicine by working to turn the impossible into the possible. We provide potentially life-changing treatment options and life-saving vaccine protection to millions of people globally, while putting sustainability and social responsibility at the center of our ambitions.

Sanofi has recently embarked into a vast and ambitious digital transformation program. A cornerstone of this roadmap is the acceleration of its data transformation and of the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) solutions, to accelerate R&D, manufacturing and commercial performance and bring better drugs and vaccines to patients faster, to improve health and save lives.

Who You Are:

You are a dynamic ML / AI expert with either industry or academic experience in leading a team focused on the development, use and adoption of generative AI for biomedical text and sequence data. We are looking for people who can use and extend large LLMs for various applications, are comfortable with relevant engineering and scaling issues needed for use of this technology in a large company but also understand the biology and the underlying methods and algorithms. In our experience the best candidate for this position are people who are passionate about the use of machine learning and AI to unlock the mysteries of science and change the way biomedical research is performed.

Job Highlights:

• Lead a team of AI/ML and software engineers to evaluate, develop, extend and apply LLMs and generative AI algorithms to various use cases in Research and Development in a large pharma company.

• Develop, implement, test and refine advanced ML methods for the processing, analysis, modeling integration and visualization of large scale genomics and biomedical data.

• Use AI and ML methods for knowledge extraction from text and other structured data and for integrating this data with other types of structure and unstructured data using multi-modal genAI methods.

• Be in close contact with life and medical sciences researchers to discuss project specifications, needs, data, testing and use of the products being developed.

• Work closely with the leading generative AI companies (our vendors) to make sure our products are state of the art and up to date.

• Work with developers, engineers, and MLOps to deliver AI/ML solutions to product teams.

Key Functional Requirements & Qualifications:

• PhD or MSc in computer science, machine learning, computational biology or related area with at least 6 years of experience in working on the development of methods related to deep NN, LLMs, generative AI or related topics

• Experience in the use of AI for NLP and text analysis and in use cases downstream of NLP LLMs.

• Demonstrated ability to lead a team of data scientists and generate software solutions that are of practical use.

• Hands-on AI/ML modeling experience of complex datasets combined with strong understanding of theoretical foundations of AI/ML.

• Experience developing deployable code and deploying models in product-focused development under an agile environment

• Comfortable working in cloud and high-performance computing environments (e.g. AWS, GCP, Databricks, Apache Spark)

• Excellent written and verbal communication, business analysis, data visualization and data storytelling skills

• Strong interest in the use of AI in the life and medical sciences to improve patient lives.

Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; marital, domestic partnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liability for military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other characteristic protected by law.

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