# Tooling Evolution Lead Engineer

ROLE SUMMARY Engineering Activation & Tooling is responsible for the tools, access, and onboarding experience that let engineers across Pfizer's eight platforms start delivering from Day One - and for making sure the estate of tools they rely on keeps pace with a wave of new developer and AI capabilities We are seeking an experienced Tooling Evolution Lead (individual contributor, principal-level) who will own the evaluation, industrialisation, and lifecycle of engineering and AI developer tools across the organisation. In this role, you will run the governed intake process new tools and proofs-of-concept go through, score them against a shared evidence framework, and decide - on evidence rather than instinct - what earns a fast, contained pilot, what graduates to the supported core estate, and what gets retired once usage data says it is no longer earning its place. You will bridge the gap between a constant, fast-moving wave of new developer and AI tooling and a stable, trusted core estate, partnering with two community-of-practice Guilds - Engineering & AI, and Product & Delivery - who scout tools in and carry adoption out, and with Tooling Operations, whose usage and cost telem

- **Id**: 4007238
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/pfizer-tooling-evolution-lead-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Cambridge, United States, New York, United States, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: yes
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T07:57:11Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T07:57:11Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 10565
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Relocation assistance
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: Prescription Drugs, Oncology Therapeutics, Infectious Disease Therapeutics

## Company

- **Id**: 3480
- **Name**: Pfizer
- **Domain**: pfizer.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/pfizer>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 88
- **Open postings**: 28
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.679
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 13
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 162900
- **Max**: 271500
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 271500

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Copilot** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

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

### Education

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

## Hiring locations

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T07:57:11Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 115; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 47 · green card filings: 2; Filings 12m: 47

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 13
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T09:22:09Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 271500
- **Is top pay**: yes

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