Senior Specialist, Data Science

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Job Description The Computational Toxicology Group within Nonclinical Drug Safety (NDS) seeks a senior AI/ML scientist to drive the development and deployment of next-generation computational toxicology capabilities. This role will combine advanced machine learning, foundation model engineering, and domain expertise to accelerate safer drug discovery and support regulatory-ready New Approach Methodologies (NAMs). The successful candidate will lead cross-functional projects, deliver production-grade models and agentic systems, and help establish governance and MLOps practices that ensure reproducibility, transparency, and ethical AI use in preclinical research. Key responsibilities: Lead deployment of advanced AI/ML solutions (multimodal transformers, graph or sequence models, Bayesian/probabilistic approaches) for toxicity prediction and translational safety applications. Design and implement agentic AI systems tailored to toxicology use cases Specialize in the fine-tuning and alignment of foundation models for toxicology domain-specific applications and supporting new approach methods (NAMs). Drive collaboration with cross-functional teams of toxicologists, computational scientist...