Director, Generative AI

TakedaPharmaceutical Nordics AB is inviting individuals with deep knowledge of machine learning and artificial intelligence to join their ShinrAI Center for AI/ML in Cambridge, MA. The role focuses on leveraging generative AI to drive decision making and automation in pharmaceutical R&D, while collaborating with various teams to implement innovative solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Partners with data science teams, domain experts, and business units to identify and prioritize opportunities to leverage machine learning and particularly generative AI and agentic AI to drive decision making and automation across all levels of the R&D organization
• Translate business needs into clearly scoped machine learning projects, and take a hands-on approach to steer solution design and implementation
• Educate, demonstrate, guide, and enable the application of machine learning and particularly generative AI in various pharmaceutical R&D operations and scientific domains
• Identify, monitor, and validate relevant external AI/ML developments, cultivate relationships with external domain experts and partners, and report and present emerging novel developments within the organization to further innovation and shape long-term strategy and governance
• Proactively build relationships across the company to inform your work and contribute to internal and external collaborations, through involvement in working groups, and the writing of insightful, engaging, and actionable opinion pieces that are easily digestible by internal decision makers and stakeholders
• Be the leading voice for building common capability and approaches and for adopting best practices
• Work in collaboration with our Ethics and Governance teams to ensure our AI/ML applications are developed ethically and provide broad benefits to our patients and business
• Help talented, driven, enthusiastic AI/ML engineers and data scientists across the company grow professionally
• Measure, document, and communicate impacts of the Center’s efforts