Senior Expert II Agentic Application Expert Rapid Prototyping

Role Summary

Senior Expert II Agentic Application Expert Rapid Prototyping. This role supports the work to create and deploy Agentic Systems throughout BR in collaboration with the AICS and RX teams, BR’s data science community and key stakeholders. The objective is to advance AI-aided drug discovery by developing, deploying, and scaling Agentic applications that accelerate discovery, shorten cycle times, and improve efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Build, implement, and deploy a cutting-edge and impactful portfolio of Agentic applications with BR drug discovery project teams and drug discovery platforms
• Raise the level of Agentic expertise & capabilities across BR
• Help position AI-aided drug discovery contributions to deliver and support progress of BR’s portfolio, enable new kinds of therapeutic discoveries, shorten cycle times, and increase efficiency

• Regularly communicate, engage, align with AICS teams, the broader data science community, and senior scientists
• Initiate and lead key high-value internal collaborations across BR
• Help to identify, recommend, and evaluate opportunities for Agentic collaborations across BR
• Provide subject matter expertise, input, and evangelism to the field of AI across BR

Qualifications

• Required: 4+ years of significant experience in innovation, development, deployment and continuous support of Machine Learning tools and models
• Required: 2+ years of hands-on experience fine-tuning and prompting large language models (SFT, LoRA, RLHF, ORPO, GRPO, etc.). Experience with pretraining and post-training a plus
• Required: 2+ year of hands-on experience and knowledge of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), tool-use agents (e.g. e34wReAct style systems), and orchestration frameworks (e.g. LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, etc.)
• Required: Strong understanding and experience using version control systems for developing software (e.g. GitHub, git, subversion, bitbucket, etc.)
• Required: Proficiency in Python and experienced with automated testing, code review, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)
• Required: Expertise in bringing advanced analytics insights and actions to a large Research organization & deep understanding of Drug development
• Preferred: Publications, patents, or open-source contributions that demonstrate innovation agent frameworks or computational drug discovery
• Required: Deep passion for understanding emerging technologies with pragmatic insight into where those technologies can be integrated into business solutions to meet stakeholder requirements
• Required: Ability to balance requirements, manage expectations, and drive effective results using a proactive attitude towards identifying and resolving issues
• Required: Entrepreneurial spirit with can-do, pro-active attitude
• Required: Strong organizational, problem-solving, and influencing skills and demonstrated track record of exceptional teamwork
• Required: Excellent interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills
• Required: Ability to self-start, execute and prioritize well in a highly matrixed environment

Skills

• Python programming
• Automated testing and code review
• Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Version control (Git, GitHub, Subversion, Bitbucket)
• Agentic systems design and deployment
• MD, collaboration and stakeholder management