Associate Director, Data Scientist

At Gilead were creating a healthier world for all people. For more than 35 years weve tackled diseases such as HIV viral hepatitis COVID-19 and cancer working relentlessly to develop therapies that help improve lives and to ensure access to these therapies across the globe. We continue to fight against the worlds biggest health challenges and our mission requires collaboration determination and a relentless drive to make a difference.

Every member of Gileads team plays a critical role in the discovery and development of life-changing scientific innovations. Our employees are our greatest asset as we work to achieve our bold ambitions and were looking for the next wave of passionate and ambitious people ready to make a direct impact.

We believe every employee deserves a great leader. People Leaders are the cornerstone to the employee experience at Gilead and Kite. As a people leader now or in the future you are the key driver in evolving our culture and creating an environment where every employee feels included developed and empowered to fulfil their aspirations. Join Gilead and help create possible together.

Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Works as part of a team responsible for managing contractors technical delivery partners and AI workstreams across applied AI initiatives.
• Supports contractor onboarding work planning technical direction delivery coordination quality review and accountability for assigned work.
• Provides hands-on technical direction for AI prototypes model development application patterns data pipelines and production AI systems.
• Reviews technical designs architecture decisions model evaluation plans code quality implementation tradeoffs and production-readiness.
• Contributes to prototypes proof-of-concepts notebooks design documents technical spikes and code reviews when needed.
• Promotes scientific rigor reproducibility engineering excellence responsible AI practices documentation and maintainable delivery patterns.

• Leads development evaluation deployment and scaling of AI capabilities supporting research development clinical regulatory safety and enterprise use cases.
• Applies product thinking to ensure AI solutions address clear user needs workflow realities business priorities adoption goals and measurable outcomes.
• Partners with Product Management & Experiences to understand user needs prioritize opportunities define success metrics and support adoption.
• Uses experimentation user feedback benchmarking and iterative delivery to validate assumptions and improve AI capabilities over time.
• Identifies opportunities to use emerging AI technologies to accelerate scientific discovery and operational effectiveness.
• Uses experimentation user feedback benchmarking and iterative delivery to validate assumptions and improve AI capabilities over time.
• Identifies opportunities to use emerging AI technologies to accelerate scientific discovery and operational effectiveness.

• Designs and guides AI solution architectures for assigned projects and business domains.
• Guides development of Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems agentic workflows prompt and context engineering patterns evaluation harnesses model monitoring and Langfuse-based observability.
• Sets expectations for production-quality code automated testing version control reproducible experiments scalable deployment patterns and operational documentation.
• Develops reusable AI frameworks tools accelerators platforms and services that enable faster delivery across Research Development and enterprise functions.
• Helps troubleshoot complex issues across data quality model behavior latency reliability security scalability cost compliance and user experience.
• Responsible AI Governance & Production Operations
• Ensures AI solutions follow applicable governance privacy security regulatory and responsible AI expectations.
• Implements practical approaches for Large Language Model evaluation groundedness assessment hallucination risk management traceability and quality measurement.
• Uses platforms such as Langfuse or equivalent approved tooling for LLM tracing debugging prompt and response analysis observability evaluation workflows and production monitoring.
• Supports Machine Learning Operations Large Language Model Operations continuous integration and delivery model monitoring observability and operational support practices.

• Collaborates with Product Management & Experiences Business Delivery Excellence Enterprise AI & Governance Excellence ARC translational AI teams and Development partners.
• Partners with scientists therapeutic area leaders clinical teams regulatory functions Information Technology Privacy and Drug Development Systems to prioritize high-impact AI opportunities.
• Communicates technical concepts product strategy risks tradeoffs and delivery progress clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Contributes to ARC initiatives that advance AI capabilities governance adoption product innovation and operational excellence.

• PhD in Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Computational Biology Statistics Engineering or related discipline with 4 years of relevant industry experience.
• MS in a related discipline with 8 years of relevant experience.
• BS in a related discipline with 10 years of relevant experience.
• Demonstrated expertise in Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Deep Learning Natural Language Processing Generative AI or related disciplines.
• Experience guiding technical contributors contractors or cross-functional project teams including technical direction coaching delivery oversight and quality review.
• Hands-on experience building evaluating and deploying AI or machine learning solutions in applied research product or enterprise environments.

• Strong hands-on programming skills in Python and practical experience with modern AI and machine learning libraries such as PyTorch TensorFlow or equivalent approved technologies.
• Experience in clinical trial operational data real-world data and supporting trial feasibility site selection and forecasting.
• Experience building Generative AI applications with LangChain LangGraph Semantic Kernel Microsoft Agent Framework Langfuse AWS-native AI services Microsoft Azure services where appropriate or equivalent approved enterprise technologies.
• Experience designing and implementing Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems including chunking embeddings vector search reranking grounding citation patterns retrieval evaluation and response quality measurement.
• Experience developing agentic AI workflows tool-use patterns orchestration approaches guardrails human-in-the-loop review models prompt engineering context engineering and model evaluation techniques.
• Experience with APIs microservices notebooks Git-based development automated tests containerization deployment patterns monitoring and operational support for AI systems.
• Experience deploying AI solutions in regulated environments with appropriate governance security privacy compliance scalability reliability and responsible use controls.

• Strong knowledge of Generative AI Large Language Models advanced analytics and applied machine learning.
• Experience in one or more of the following areas: foundation models multimodal AI agentic AI systems scientific machine learning knowledge graphs Retrieval-Augmented Generation Natural Language Processing or advanced deep learning.
• Experience designing evaluation frameworks for Large Language Models including accuracy groundedness hallucination risk robustness latency cost safety user acceptance and Langfuse-based tracing or evaluation workflows.
• Experience translating research and experimental AI concepts into scalable production capabilities.

• Extensive experience with Machine Learning Operations Large Language Model Operations continuous integration and delivery cloud-based AI infrastructure observability model monitoring and automated testing.
• Experience working with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure including AI machine learning data security and scalable compute services.
• Experience using Langfuse or equivalent approved tooling for LLM application tracing debugging prompt and response analysis production observability evaluation workflows and quality measurement.
• Experience applying software engineering methodologies scalable AI architectures reusable components documentation standards and maintainable production systems.

• Demonstrated product mindset with experience translating technical capabilities into solutions that deliver measurable user and business value.
• Experience partnering with product managers designers engineers scientists and business stakeholders throughout the product lifecycle.
• Proven ability to align technical strategies with business goals and communicate complex concepts effectively to non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated success working with multidisciplinary teams managing contractors or technical delivery partners and mentoring technical contributors.
• Ability to balance experimentation and innovation with execution adoption operational impact and measurable outcomes.
• Proven ability to influence programs projects and initiatives in a matrixed environment.

• Experience applying AI in life sciences drug development clinical research healthcare or regulated industries.
• Experience contributing to publications patents open-source projects technical communities or internal technical standards.
• Strong analytical communication organizational and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to travel as needed.

The salary range for this position is: $210375.00 - $272250.00. Gilead considers a variety of factors when determining base compensation including experience qualifications and geographic location. These considerations mean actual compensation will vary. This position may also be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus discretionary stock-based long-term incentives (eligibility may vary based on role) paid time off and a benefits package. Benefits include company-sponsored medical dental vision and life insurance plans*.

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Eligible employees may participate in benefit plans subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans.

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