Biomedical Jobs in East York, ON

Director of AI for Clinical Trial Design and Optimization

Location : Toronto, ON

About the Job

We are an innovative global healthcare company, driven by one purpose : we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. Our team, across some 100 countries, is dedicated to transforming the practice of medicine by working to turn the impossible into the possible. We provide potentially life-changing treatment options and life-saving vaccine protection to millions of people globally, while putting sustainability and social responsibility at the center of our ambitions.

Sanofi has recently embarked into a vast and ambitious digital transformation program. A cornerstone of this roadmap is the acceleration of its data transformation and of the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) solutions, to accelerate R&D, manufacturing and commercial performance and bring better drugs and vaccines to patients faster, to improve health and save lives.

You are a dynamic ML / AI expert with either industry or academic experience in leading a team focused on the development, use and adoption of generative AI for biomedical text and sequence data. We are looking for people who can use and extend large LLMs for various applications, are comfortable with relevant engineering and scaling issues needed for use of this technology in a large company but also understand the biology and the underlying methods and algorithms. In our experience, the best candidate for this position are people who are passionate about the use of machine learning and AI to unlock the mysteries of science and change the way biomedical research is performed.

Main Responsibilities

• Lead a team of AI / ML and software engineers to evaluate, develop, extend and apply advance ML / AI methods for Clinical Trial design, analysis and optimization.
• Develop, implement, test and refine advanced AI / ML methods for the processing, analysis, modeling integration and visualization of large-scale biomedical data including text, imaging and omics data.
• Use AI and ML methods for knowledge extraction from text and other structured data and for integrating this data with other types of structure and unstructured data using multi-modal genAI methods.
• Be in close contact with our clinical teams to discuss requirements, possible solutions and ways to integrate the proposed AI / ML methods to improve clinical trial design and execution.
• Work closely with the leading generative AI companies (our vendors) to make sure our products are state of the art and up to date.
• Work with developers, engineers, and MLOps to deliver AI / ML solutions to product teams.

About You :

Why Choose Us?

Sanofi is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. Our goal is to attract, develop and retain highly talented employees from diverse backgrounds, allowing us to benefit from a wide variety of experiences and perspectives. We welcome and encourage applications from all qualified applicants. Accommodations for persons with disabilities required during the recruitment process are available upon request.

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