Associate Director of AI/ML

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At Takeda, we are a forward-looking, world-class R&D organization that unlocks innovation and delivers transformative therapies to patients. By focusing R&D efforts on four therapeutic areas and other targeted investments, we push the boundaries of what is possible in order to bring life-changing therapies to patients worldwide.

Join Takeda as an Associate Director of AI and Machine Learning

• Educate, demonstrate, guide, and enable the application of AI/ML in various company operations and scientific domains
• Champion the use of advanced data products to drive decision making and automation across the company and at all levels of the organization
• Partners with data science teams, domain experts, and business units to identify and prioritize opportunities to leverage AI/ML to drive business value creation
• Translate business needs into clearly scoped machine learning projects, and take a hands-on approach to steer solution design and implementation
• 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

We are looking to hire in early- and mid-career levels. There are multiple openings across our candidate profiles. Further assessments will be completed to determine specific function and level of hired candidates. 

To set you up for success at the Shinrai Center, we look for the following skills and experience:

EDUCATION, BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS

• A track record of partnering cross-functionally with a wide range of stakeholders and cross-functional teams to develop and deploy novel data solutions in production environments
• Demonstrated passion for making complex technology more accessible and the ability to communicate complex technical topics simply and convincingly to a wide range of audiences
• Demonstrated ability in translating big picture business and product ideas into micro use cases and has a strong focus on solving core problems to deliver simple solutions
• Experience recognizing and communicating the implications of emerging technologies
• Excellent communication, prioritization, and interpersonal skills, with a high level of attention to detail
• An advanced degree (M.S., PhD.) in mathematics, applied statistics, computer science, machine learning or similar.  With 8 years of experience architecting, building, launching, and maintaining end-to-end ML systems from whiteboard to production at scale across a range of models and platforms.  More specifically,
  • Demonstrated ability and authoritative knowledge in a variety of AI/ML problems and domains, with depth in at least two (computer vision, natural language processing, geometric deep learning, timeseries, reinforcement learning, multimodal learning, etc.)
  • Solid understanding of deep learning model architectures (C/RNN, attention/memory, autoregressive, etc.) and extensions (Transformer, LSTM, ResNet, etc.) as well as traditional ML models (k-means, KNN, decision trees, SVM, Bayesian/graphical models, Gaussian process, etc.) and their real-world advantages and drawbacks.
  • Experience tuning, validating, optimizing, visualizing, and debugging these models in applied settings
  • Familiarity with ML Ops concepts related to testing, retraining, and monitoring models in production
  • Experience in configuring and working in different coding environments (local, notebooks, containers) and using standard software engineering workflows (testing, code management/Git, CI/CD) 
• An enthusiasm to ask questions and try and learn new things is essential
• Entrepreneurial experience is desirable.
• Experience in life sciences and healthcare and experience in a complex global organization is a plus

What Takeda can offer you:

• Comprehensive Healthcare: Medical, Dental, and Vision
• Financial Planning & Stability: 401(k) with company match and Annual Retirement Contribution Plan
• Health & Wellness programs including onsite flu shots and health screenings
• Generous time off for vacation and the option to purchase additional vacation days
• Community Outreach Programs and company match of charitable contributions
• Family Planning Support
• Flexible Work Paths
• Tuition reimbursement

More about us:

At Takeda, we are transforming patient care through the development of novel specialty pharmaceuticals and best in class patient support programs. Takeda is a patient-focused company that will inspire and empower you to grow through life-changing work.

Certified as a Global Top Employer, Takeda offers stimulating careers, encourages innovation, and strives for excellence in everything we do. We foster an inclusive, collaborative workplace, in which our teams are united by an unwavering commitment to deliver Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the world.

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