Principal Research AI Innovation Lead

• Bachelor's Degree 8+ years of academic / industry experience
• Or Master's Degree 6+ years of academic / industry experience
• Or PhD 4+ years of academic / industry experience
• Advanced degree, such as MS, PhD, PharmD, or equivalent experience in a scientific, computational, or AI-related field.
• Direct experience in one or more research areas such as target identification and evaluation, indication expansion, drug repurposing, biomarker discovery, translational research, clinical evidence review, or portfolio decision support.
• Ability to interpret scientific evidence, assess analytical quality, and evaluate whether AI-generated scientific outputs are grounded, appropriately caveated, and defensible.
• Substantive hands-on architectural depth in modern AI and large language model methods, including agentic workflows, multi-agent orchestration, long-horizon task execution, GraphRAG, Model Context Protocol (MCP) auth patterns, and deep research workflows with reasoning models, with the depth to define reference architectures and architectural standards rather than to integrate vendor APIs.
• Experience building AI systems that reason across heterogeneous scientific evidence, including genetic associations, clinical outcomes, literature, omics data, assay data, real-world data, or other biomedical data sources.
• Experience designing AI evaluation frameworks, benchmark datasets, human-reviewed reference standards, rubric-based assessments, or scientific quality metrics.
• Experience developing or adapting deep learning models for biological, biomedical, or translational research applications, including fine-tuning biology-focused large language models, multimodal generative models, protein or sequence foundation models, representation-learning models, or other domain-specific AI systems.
• Experience working in innovation-lab, accelerator, startup, skunkworks, or rapid-prototyping environments.

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