Job Description Summary
Job Title: Senior Expert (AI-Engineering)
Location: Hyderabad, India
LI-Hybrid

Relocation Support: Yes

Imagine shaping how breakthrough medicines are discovered by bringing cutting-edge AI from concept to real-world application. As a Senior Expert in AI-Engineering, you will sit at the critical intersection of innovation and delivery—transforming advanced machine learning models into scalable, reliable solutions that accelerate drug discovery. Collaborating with leading scientists and AI experts, you will drive the translation of pioneering research into impactful tools, ensuring models are reproducible, effective, and ready to solve complex biomedical challenges. This is an opportunity to directly influence how modern AI reshapes scientific discovery and improves patient outcomes.

Job Description
Key Responsibilities
- Design and train advanced machine learning models for drug discovery, including deep learning and graph-based architectures
- Own end-to-end model lifecycle from problem definition to production deployment and continuous improvement




- Conduct rigorous benchmarking, validation, and performance evaluation against scientific and business objectives
- Deploy scalable, reliable model inference services meeting latency, throughput, and cost requirements
- Build automated training, retraining, and monitoring pipelines including model drift detection mechanisms
- Optimize models and pipelines for performance, reliability, and scalability across production environments
- Establish and promote engineering best practices for reproducibility, testing, and deployment standards
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate research innovations into production-ready AI solutions
- Partner with scientific experts to validate models against biological and chemical benchmarks
- Mentor teams and contribute to raising engineering excellence across the AI for Research organization

Essential Requirements
- Minimum four years of experie

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