Biomedical AI Methods Expert

OverviewNovartis has embraced a bold strategy to drive a company‑wide digital transformation by adopting digital technologies to accelerate drug discovery and development. By leveraging Research & Development data, data science, predictive models, generative AI, and machine learning, the Artificial Intelligence & Computational Sciences (AICS) team works to identify new targets, create more effective therapeutic molecules, better predict drug pharmacokinetics and safety risks, refine clinical trial design, and shorten development cycles. The team partners with drug discovery teams, raises AI expertise across Biomedical Research (BR), and ensures that BR science stays current with evolving AI technologies.ResponsibilitiesWork with a team of AI researchers, data scientists and SMEs with core domain expertise to develop and deliver focused, robust, performant AI algorithms and solutions to accelerate drug discovery.Stay informed about the latest AI methods, deepen understanding of the problem domain, and ask detailed questions to identify potential areas for innovation in AI across the drug discovery pipeline.Promote awareness of advancements in AI methods for addressing key research questions within biomedical research.Fluently adopt Engineering and Product Development resources to ensure the adoption of AI solutions.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.Collaboration & PartnershipA respectful, team‑player attitude is an absolute must.Regularly communicate, engage, and align with AICS teams, the broader data science community, and senior scientists.Initiate and lead key high‑value internal collaborations across BR.Help design translatable metrics for AI models that will lead to tangible impact in collaboration with BR DAs and FAs.Collaborate cross‑functionally to translate model outputs into actionable hypotheses and guide experimental design.What You’ll Bring to the Role4+ years of significant experience in innovation, development, deployment and continuous support of Machine Learning and modeling.Strong hands‑on coding proficiency in Python and deep learning frameworks, and expertise in bringing advanced analytics insights and actions to a large research organization.Wide exposure to representation learning, deep generative modeling, probabilistic reasoning, and explainability approaches, with a deep passion for understanding and explaining the technical concepts underlying ML approaches.Strong understanding and experience in using version control systems for developing software (e.g. GitHub, git, subversion, Bitbucket) with expertise in large‑scale model training, distributed computation, and foundation model adaptation.Publications, patents, or open‑source contributions that demonstrate machine learning innovation and expertise, with passion for understanding emerging technologies and how they can integrate into business solutions.Ability to balance requirements, manage expectations, and drive effective results using a proactive can‑do attitude towards identifying and resolving issues, and a proven ability to work exceptionally well within complex matrixed teams.A deep curiosity and passion for biomedical sciences‑driven therapeutic discovery.Nice to HaveExperience applying ML to one or more functional areas of core drug discovery such as target identification, computational chemistry, protein structure modelling and design, or translational medicine.Commitment to Diversity & InclusionWe are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.Benefits & RewardsRead our handbook to learn about all the ways we’ll help you thrive personally and professionally: https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-rewardsLocation & AccommodationFor Basel, Switzerland: Switzerland Accessibility and accommodation. Novartis is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to all individuals. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, or to receive more detailed information about the essential functions of a position, please send an e‑mail to diversity.inclusion_ch@novartis.com and include the job requisition number in your message.Relevant Areas of Desired ExpertiseTransformer architectures (Text, Vision, DNA/amino‑acid sequences, Gene expression vectors)Long‑context transformers and efficient attention mechanismsDiffusion modelsFlow matchingEnergy‑based modelsMultimodal architecturesGraph neural networksGeometric deep learningBayesian optimizationReinforcement learningActive learningVariational InferenceSelf‑supervised learningContrastive learningDomain adaptationTest‑time adaptationWhy NovartisHelping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people. Collaborating, supporting and inspiring each other helps us combine forces to achieve breakthroughs that change patients’ lives.Ready to create a brighter future together? https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-cultureJoin our Novartis NetworkNot the right Novartis role for you? Sign up to our talent community to stay connected and learn about suitable career opportunities as soon as they come up: https://talentnetwork.novartis.com/networkSeniority LevelMid‑Senior levelEmployment TypeFull‑timeJob FunctionOtherIndustriesPharmaceutical Manufacturing #J-18808-Ljbffr