Reference No. R2759422

Position Title: 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.

• 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.
  

• PhD or MSc in computer science, machine learning, computational biology or related area with at least 6 years of experience in working on the development of methods related to deep NN, LLMs, generative AI or related topics
  
• Knowledge of the biomedical domain. Knowledge of the clinical trial process is an advantage.
  
• Experience in the use of AI for NLP and text analysis and in use cases downstream of NLP LLMs.
  
• Demonstrated ability to lead a team of data scientists and generate software solutions that are of practical use.
  
• Hands-on AI/ML modeling experience of complex datasets combined with strong understanding of theoretical foundations of AI/ML.
  
• Experience developing deployable code and deploying models in product-focused development under an agile environment
  
• Comfortable working in cloud and high-performance computing environments (e.g. AWS, GCP, Databricks, Apache Spark)
  
• Excellent written and verbal communication, business analysis, data visualization and data storytelling skills
  
• Strong interest in the use of AI in the life and medical sciences to improve patient lives.
  

• Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.
  
• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it's through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.
  
• Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.
  
• Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs and at least 14 weeks' gender-neutral parental leave.