Senior Manager, Machine Learning Platform Engineer

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Job Description

Job Description

This ML Platform Engineer will have the unique opportunity to apply cutting-edge data and AI technologies to one of the most meaningful challenges in healthcare: ensuring the quality of medicines that improve and save lives. As a pivotal member of R&D Quality this role will help transform how quality insights are generated scaled and acted upon across Gileads drug development and clinical research programs. Through the operationalization of machine learning models data pipelines and advanced analytics platforms the successful candidate will enable more proactive quality oversight smarter decision-making and continuous improvement ultimately supporting Gileads mission to deliver life-changing therapies to patients worldwide.

The ML Platform Engineer will partner with the Quality Analytics & Insights team a small high-impact group responsible for advancing data science analytics and AI capabilities across R&D Quality. This role will build and maintain the ML and data infrastructure that supports Quality Performance and Quality Health models focused on signal detection risk analytics early identification of emerging issues mitigation strategies and continuous improvement. Working closely with data scientists the engineer will operationalize models through robust data pipelines cloud infrastructure monitoring automation and MLOps practices transforming analytical prototypes into scalable production-ready solutions. The role will collaborate directly with Quality teams IT and global delivery teams to support key Quality System elements and programs including Audit Deviation CAPA Risk Management Escalation/Serious Breach and Quality Analytics/Data Science while helping define the technology roadmap for next-generation analytics automation and AI capabilities across the organization.

Primary Responsibilities

ML & Data Engineering

• Technical Ownership: Operate as a self-directed contributor who scopes plans and drives initiatives end-to-end translating ambiguous Quality problems into technical solutions making sound architectural trade-offs and delivering production outcomes with minimal oversight.

• Infrastructure & Environment Automation: Independently provision and manage cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code and containerization standing up reproducible scalable environments for training serving and experimentation with minimal reliance on external teams.

• Model Lifecycle Management: Develop and maintain pipelines to transition models from experimentation to production including packaging CI/CD automated testing and deployment. Support model serving for Quality use cases such as signal detection risk analytics and Quality Performance/Quality Health models.

• Data Pipeline Development: Design robust batch and streaming data workflows; integrate define and manage feature sets lineage and reuse across QMS data sources (e.g. Audit Deviation CAPA Risk Management).

• Data Orchestration: Author and schedule reliable observable workflows using orchestration tools and distributed processing ensuring dependencies retries and SLAs are handled without manual intervention.

• Production Operations & Monitoring: Ensure the reliability and scalability of data pipelines; implement effective logging tracing and alerting. Establish monitoring for model performance data drift bias and service health paying particular attention to data quality across QMS data feeds where low-frequency quality signals amplify the impact of anomalies.

AI & Agent Systems Support

• Workflow Support: Collaborate with data scientists and Quality stakeholders to explore how parts of complex quality workflows (e.g. audit preparation deviation triage CAPA trending) can be supported by AI-assisted or agent-based approaches while keeping clear boundaries between automated execution and human data science judgment.

• Prompt & Instruction Design: Help design and maintain prompt and instruction patterns including context and memory handling that translate Quality analytics requirements into clear well-scoped directives with defined acceptance criteria.

• Efficiency & Optimization: Where AI tooling is used apply sensible practices to manage context usage and cost balancing capability with available budget.

Collaboration & Enablement

• Cross-functional Partnership: Work closely with data scientists Quality analysts and stakeholders across R&D Quality programs (e.g. Audit Deviation CAPA Risk Management Escalation/Serious Breach). Provide frameworks templates and guardrails that accelerate analytics delivery.

• Testing & Validation: Demonstrate a strong focus on testing by setting up frameworks for both traditional ML models and AI-generated code. Design validation pipelines with automated quality gates including type checking linting integration tests and contract tests.

• Documentation & Release Management: Develop clear detailed guides operational playbooks and user instructions. Coordinate releases with IT and the global team; maintain runbooks rollback strategies and change tickets.

• Security & Compliance: Apply security access-control and data-governance best practices across pipelines and infrastructure ensuring solutions meet the expectations of a validated GxP-regulated environment.

Innovation & Technical Strategy

• Technology Evaluation & Roadmap Input: Evaluate emerging ML data and AI tooling; prototype promising approaches and recommend adoption contributing to the technical roadmap for next-generation Quality analytics and automation.

• Guardrails & Assurance: Define evaluation criteria test sets and guardrails for AI-assisted and agent-based components ensuring outputs are accurate traceable and appropriate for a regulated Quality environment.

Tech Stack

Basic

• Programming & scripting: Python and SQL; scripting with Python Bash or PowerShell.

• Source control: Git and source control management.

• CI/CD & release management: Working knowledge of CI/CD tools and release management (e.g. GitHub Actions).

• Cloud platforms: Hands-on experience with a major cloud provider (AWS or Azure).

• Containers: Container technologies (Docker; Kubernetes).

• Data & ML platform: Databricks.

• Core ML understanding: Understanding of model evaluation and scoring including avoidance of model bias.

Preferred

• Cloud infrastructure / infrastructure-as-code: Terraform; broader cloud engineering experience (AWS preferred).

• AI/ML packages: Experience with common AI/ML libraries such as scikit-learn PyTorch TensorFlow and XGBoost.

• Monitoring & logging: Datadog Splunk CloudWatch or Prometheus.

• Infrastructure concepts: Understanding of networking security and infrastructure fundamentals.

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelors Degree and Eight Years Experience

OR

Masters Degree and Six Years Experience

OR

PhD / PharmD

Preferred Qualifications:

• Degree in computer science computer engineering information systems or a related discipline with relevant experience in ML engineering data engineering or ML operations

• Significant hands-on experience operationalizing data/ML solutions end-to-end including data engineering pipeline development deployment and production monitoring.

• Strong programming skills in key languages such as Python SQL Go and TypeScript with proven ability to manipulate large and complex datasets using distributed computing technologies.

• Familiarity with AWS cloud services.

• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to present complex findings to both technical and non-technical audiences and a strong orientation toward teamwork in a fast-paced regulated environment.

• Experience building packaging and maintaining machine learning models and libraries in production.

• Experience with CI/CD infrastructure-as-code and cloud-based ML platforms.

• Proficiency with Databricks distributed processing (Spark) data orchestration and similar data and BI technologies.

People Leader Accountabilities:

• Create Inclusion - knowing the business value of diverse teams modeling inclusion and embedding the value of diversity in the way they manage their teams.

• Develop Talent - understand the skills experience aspirations and potential of their employees and coach them on current performance and future potential. They ensure employees are receiving feedback and insight needed to grow develop and realize their purpose.

• Empower Teams - connect the team to the organization by aligning goals purpose and organizational objectives and holding them to account. They provide the support needed to remove barriers and connect their team to the broader ecosystem

The salary range for this position is: $157590.00 - $203940.00. 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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