Director of AI Engineering

About the role

Join Vita Global Sciences, an innovative leader at the intersection of AI technology and life sciences, driving next-generation clinical data solutions. This is a fully remote, full-time opportunity to own the end-to-end AI/ML engineering strategy, leading advanced biometrics and clinical automation platforms with a global impact.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deliver FDA-compliant, automated solutions for biometrics and clinical reporting
• Shape the entire AI future of Vita Global Sciences
• Lead and mentor a world-class engineering team
• Build and scale the AI engineering team
• Translate domain workflows into AI/ML-enabled, compliant, and production-ready systems
• Support business development in RFPs/RFIs and engage in client demos
• Ensure audit, traceability, and regulatory compliance at every step
• Innovate solutions that will directly influence Vita’s revenue growth and industry reputation

Requirements

• 10–15+ years in software/AI engineering
• 3–5+ years leading engineering teams, including delivery ownership
• Demonstrated experience building and deploying production AI/ML or data platforms (not just prototypes)
• Deep knowledge of:
• Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), agentic pipeline systems
• Multi-cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• MLOps and scalable deployment practices
• Experience operating in regulated environments (GxP preferred)
• Life sciences or clinical data exposure (SDTM, ADaM, CDISC, etc.)
• Enterprise-level internal platform or SaaS solution experience
• Familiarity with the PHUSE and PharmaSUG ecosystem

Qualifications

• Defining and executing the AI roadmap across biometrics and medical writing
• Building, scaling, and mentoring the AI engineering team
• Driving biometrics automation, LLM pipelines, agent orchestration, and cloud-native data flow frameworks

Skills

• Familiarity with the PHUSE and PharmaSUG ecosystem
• Defining and executing the AI roadmap across biometrics and medical writing
• Translating domain workflows into AI/ML-enabled, compliant, and production-ready systems
• Building, scaling, and mentoring the AI engineering team
• Driving biometrics automation, LLM pipelines, agent orchestration, and cloud-native data flow frameworks
• Supporting Business Development in RFPs/RFIs and engaging in client demos
• Ensuring audit, traceability, and regulatory compliance at every step
• Innovating solutions that will directly influence Vita’s revenue growth and industry reputation

Benefits

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