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 chance to directly influence how up-to-date 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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