# Associate Director, AI Engineer

Salary Range: Kč1,354,220.00 - Kč2,514,980.00Job Description Summary #LI-HybridLocation: Prague, Czech Republic / Basel, Switzerland About the Role We are hiring four Associate Directors, AI Engineering to join Biomedical Research Data & Digital, Software & Workflows and help shape the next generation of agentic AI capabilities across Novartis Biomedical Research. As an Associate Director, AI Engineer, you will be a senior individual contributor and technical authority for production-grade agentic AI. This is a hands-on technical leadership role, not a people-management position. Leadership is exercised through technical direction, architecture, engineering excellence and influence rather than direct reports. You will own complex architecture and design decisions, establish engineering standards and reference architectures for others to build upon, and remain actively involved in the code. The Software & Workflows organization partners with scientists, data experts and AI specialists across Novartis Biomedical Research to transform scientific workflows and laboratory processes. Our ambition is to make advanced digital and AI capabilities usable, scalable and impactful, helping team

- **Id**: 3702854
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/novartis-associate-director-ai-engineer>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: head
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Prague, Czech Republic
- **Countries**: CZ
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-03T20:10:30Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-03
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T10:29:26Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 6
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8281
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Hybrid work, Parental leave, Retirement plans
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Oncology Therapeutics, Neurology & CNS Therapeutics, Immunology & Inflammation Therapeutics, Cardiometabolic Therapeutics

## Company

- **Id**: 5824
- **Name**: Novartis
- **Domain**: novartis.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/novartis>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 77
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.623
- **Repost share**: 0.026
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 26
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Technologies

- **AgentOps** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Amazon ECS** — Optional: no
- **Amazon EKS** — Optional: no
- **Amazon S3** — Optional: no
- **API Gateway** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **AWS Bedrock** — Optional: no
- **AWS Bedrock AgentCore** — Optional: no
- **AWS Lambda** — Optional: no
- **AWS Step Functions** — Optional: no
- **AWS Strands Agents** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **CrewAI** — Optional: no
- **DynamoDB** — Optional: no
- **Embeddings** — Optional: no
- **Function Calling** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **LangGraph** — Optional: no
- **LlamaIndex** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **LLM Guardrails** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **Multi-Agent Systems** — Optional: no
- **OpenSearch** — Optional: no
- **pgvector** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: yes
- **EU AI Act** — Optional: yes
- **Java** — Optional: yes
- **Jetpack Compose** — Optional: yes
- **Kotlin** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **LangChain** — Optional: yes
- **MVVM** — Optional: yes
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: yes
- **Spring Boot** — Optional: yes
- **Verification & Validation** — Optional: yes
- **ViewModel** — Optional: yes
- **Windows** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 6

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Czech Republic** — Iso: CZ; Kind: country
- **Switzerland** — Iso: CH; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-03T20:10:30Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 6
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: conf:2, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

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