Senior Manager – Workflow, Applications & Plug-ins Team

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As an Senior Manager in the Workflow, Applications and Plug-ins team within Data, Data Science and AI Org, you will lead the engineering delivery of reusable GenAI applications and scientific workflows across R&D. Translate agreed product priorities into robust application designs, realistic delivery plans and maintainable releases. Provide technical leadership and coaching while partnering with Platforms, Innovation Engine, World Model, Data, AI Ops, AI Safety, evaluation and business teams.

• →Own the integrated application delivery plan, including milestones, engineering capacity, dependencies and release risks across approved use cases.
• →Translate validated user stories into technical designs and work packages. Define application interfaces and document architecture decisions with platform and enterprise technology partners.
• →Guide evidence-grounded generation, retrieval and agent workflow implementation. Evaluate build-versus-buy options using quality, integration effort, maintainability and cost.
• →Establish code review, automated testing and application release practices. Incorporate evaluation standards, access controls, traceability and human-review requirements.
• →Coordinate application integration with approved data products and vendor services. Agree clear handoffs for deployment, monitoring, incident response and ongoing support.
• →Mentor scientists and engineers, review technical work and coordinate employees, contractors and federated contributors against agreed deliverables.
• →Communicate delivery tradeoffs and capacity constraints to leadership. Propose scope sequencing when demand exceeds available resources.
• →The role provides delivery and technical leadership. Formal line-management responsibilities follow the approved organization design.

• Master's degree in AI/ML, Computer Science, Engineering, Bioinformatics, or related field with 3+ years of hands-on experience in AI/GenAI Science/Engineering.
• Demonstrated experience delivering production software or AI applications and leading complex technical work across multiple contributors.
• Strong AI/Gen AI Scientists fundamentals, including Python or a comparable language, APIs, version control, testing and cloud application delivery.
• Practical understanding of large language models, RAGs, evaluation and the limitations of agentic workflows.
• Ability to reason about data access, security, reliability and maintainability, and to partner with specialists for implementation.
• Evidence of effective technical mentoring, stakeholder communication and prioritization under competing demands.

• Life-sciences R&D, scientific document workflows or other environments requiring traceable evidence and controlled human review.

• Reusable plugin architectures, workflow orchestration, enterprise integrations and management of vendor engineering contributions.

• Operational monitoring, regression testing and cost/performance optimization for AI-enabled applications.

• Experience fine-tuning LLMs for specialized domains and deploying AI systems in cloud environments (AWS or Azure).

• Strong understanding of statistical validation methods for AI-driven workflows.

• Experience with Git-based development and CI/CD pipelines.

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