Director, Data Science - GenAI - Neuroscience

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Job Function:

Data Analytics & Computational Sciences

Job Sub Function:

Data Science

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America, San Diego, California, United States of America, Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.

Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is recruiting for Director, Data Science – GenAI – Neuroscience to join our J&J Research and Development Data, Data Science, and AI (DDSAI) team. This position will be located at one of our US sites (Raritan, NJ; Titusville, NJ; Cambridge, MA; Spring House, PA; San Diego, CA).

POSITION SUMMARY

The Director will lead the design, development, and deployment of AI, generative AI, and agentic AI workflow solutions for Neuroscience R&D, working across datatypes, including clinical, omics and other molecular data, and medical imaging data. Working closely with scientists and data teams, the candidate will translate priority research needs into scalable tools and capabilities (e.g., AI co-scientists) that improve how scientific information is discovered, integrated, and used by scientists, in a way that stays current with evolving scientific advances.

This hands-on leader will set technical direction, guide multidisciplinary delivery, establish evaluation and responsible AI practices, and build the reusable solutions within the enterprise platforms, in partnership with cross-functional teams in DDSAI and the Neuroscience TA (therapeutic area). The role is accountable for the platform build and evolution, scientific rigor and evaluation, user adoption, and measurable value from the Neuroscience AI portfolio.

Why This Role Is Unique

This is a senior AI seat for Neuroscience R&D, with genuine latitude over what gets built and why. You inherit a production agentic platform (runtime, orchestration, registered corpus, permission model, evaluation registry) and a voice in where it goes next, so your time goes to the part that cannot be outsourced to a model: strategic and hands-on investment in the platform to get the science right. The measure of success at twelve months is platform usage by the neuroscientists who move faster with high scientific accuracy, and a strategic Neuroscience AI plan that leadership funds because you argued for it with evidence. Your work will directly accelerate Johnson & Johnson's scientific discovery, fuel AI innovation, and impact patients globally.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Set the Neuroscience AI strategy, portfolio, roadmap, and measures of value.
• Build and deploy scalable agentic AI and generative AI solutions for priority scientific needs.
• Own delivery, investment decisions, and outcomes for the Neuroscience AI portfolio.
• Ensure scientific rigor, appropriate evidence use, and reliable domain representation.
• Establish evaluation standards, expert validation, and responsible AI practices.
• Shape shared platform capabilities and develop reusable solutions aligned with enterprise architecture.
• Guide multidisciplinary teams and maintain strong engineering and lifecycle practices.
• Partner with scientists and leaders to prioritize needs, validate solutions, and drive adoption.
• Communicate technical choices, risks, progress, and impact to senior stakeholders.

QUALIFICATIONS

• PhD in computer science, computational biology, genetics, genomics, medical informatics, or a related quantitative field; or MS with additional relevant experience.
• 8+ years of experience in pharmaceutical, biotech, or healthcare analytics, with experience setting technical direction.

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