# Associate Director, Senior AI Engineer

\*NOTE: This is a Hybrid position based out of Princeton NJ*We are seeking a hands on Sr. AI Platform Engineer (Associate Director) to collaborate and drive platform aligned AI outcomes across the enterprise. The role provides engineering leadership and AI solution architecture oversight for platform and framework deliverables - reference patterns and guardrails, CI/CD & IaC blueprints, governance by design controls, observability, and cost/performance posture - delivered on approved platforms (Dataiku, Azure AI, AWS Bedrock/AgentCore, Snowflake Cortex). Operating in a regulated pharmaceutical environment, you will lead small delivery teams and collaborate with Data Science, Cloud/Infrastructure, and IT to guide use cases onto secure, reliable, compliant production pathways, while building reusable components and agentic enablement patterns adopted across domains. Design and Engineer reusable Agentic AI components and multi-agent workflows for planning, reasoning, memory, and tool orchestration using LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, and Semantic Kernel. Apply emerging AI interaction standards including Model Context Protocol (MCP) and A2A (Agent-to-Agent) communication to support scal

- **Id**: 4256650
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/otsuka-us-associate-director-senior-ai-engineer>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: head
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Princeton, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-08-27T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-08-27
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T14:14:21Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 78
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 11148
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Continuous learning, Flexible time off, Professional development
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Health Care

## Company

- **Id**: 1794798
- **Name**: Otsuka US
- **Domain**: otsuka-us.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/otsuka-us>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

## Salary

- **Min**: 169222
- **Max**: 253000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 253000

## Technologies

- **21 CFR Part 11** — Optional: no
- **A2A** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Amazon SageMaker** — Optional: no
- **AutoGen** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **AWS Bedrock** — Optional: no
- **AWS Bedrock AgentCore** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Cortex** — Optional: no
- **Design Controls** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **FastAPI** — Optional: no
- **Flask** — Optional: no
- **Hallucination** — Optional: no
- **LangChain** — Optional: no
- **LangGraph** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **LLM Evaluation** — Optional: no
- **LLM Guardrails** — Optional: no
- **LLMOps** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **Multi-Agent Systems** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI** — Optional: no
- **OpenSearch** — Optional: no
- **Pinecone** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Prompt Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Semantic Kernel** — Optional: no
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Optional: no
- **Snowflake** — Optional: no
- **Gmail** — Optional: yes
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: yes
- **Prometheus** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 78

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T14:14:21Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 20
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.718
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 78
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T16:14:09Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 253000
- **Is top pay**: no

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