Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Novartis is a leading pharmaceutical company dedicated to improving patient outcomes through innovative solutions. The Director, AI Forward Deployed Engineer will lead the design, development, and optimization of AI solutions within business functions, ensuring they are scalable and aligned with business needs while driving AI transformation.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, deployment, and support of agentic AI solutions for business specific use cases and workflows
- Partner with business stakeholders, product teams, and domain experts to understand requirements and translate them into effective technical solutions
- Oversee day to day engineering execution for forward deployed AI initiatives, including planning, prioritization, delivery, and operational readiness
- Ensure AI solutions are scalable, reliable, maintainable, and aligned with enterprise architecture, engineering standards, and governance requirements
- Drive integration of AI solutions with business systems, data sources, and operational processes to enable effective end to end workflows
- Monitor solution performance, user feedback, and operational outcomes to identify enhancements, resolve issues, and support continuous improvement
- Collaborate with platform, data, infrastructure, and security teams to leverage shared capabilities and ensure compliant, efficient deployment
- Communicate progress, technical decisions, risks, and business impact to senior leaders and cross functional stakeholders
Skills
- A Bachelor degree required and advanced degree preferred, ideally in business, engineering, computer science, data science, or a related field
- 8 plus years of AI engineering experience, with a strong track record of leading product strategy, roadmap development, and delivery for complex digital, data, or AI enabled products
- Demonstrated experience in AI and data driven product environments, including translating business needs into scalable product solutions and partnering closely with technical teams to bring innovative products to market
- Strong cross functional leadership skills, with proven ability to collaborate effectively across Engineering, Innovation, Design, Data Science, Commercial, and other business teams to drive alignment and execution
- Experience managing and developing product managers or junior product leaders, including coaching, prioritization support, and fostering strong product management practices
- Excellent strategic, analytical, and communication skills, with the ability to evaluate opportunities, make informed tradeoffs, and clearly communicate product vision, priorities, and outcomes
Benefits
- A performance-based cash incentive
- Eligibility to be considered for annual equity awards
- US-based eligible employees will receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes health, life and disability benefits
- A 401(k) with company contribution and match
- A variety of other benefits
- Employees are eligible for a generous time off package including vacation, personal days, holidays and other leaves
Company Overview
Novartis is a pharmaceutical company that researches and develops medicines for serious diseases to improve and extend people's lives. It is a sub-organization of Meye Asset Management. It was founded in 1996, and is headquartered in Basel, Basel-Stadt, CHE, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.novartis.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Novartis has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2026, 14 in 2025, 27 in 2024, 23 in 2023, 27 in 2022, 31 in 2021, 25 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.