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Based on 240 similar postings.
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About Gilead Sciences
Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a leading American biopharmaceutical company specializing in discovering, developing, and commercializing innovative medicines for unmet medical needs.
Gilead Sciences currently has
37 open roles
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Listed pay typically runs
$168,980–$218,680
across 26 roles with salary data.
The Associate Director, Data Scientist joins a team managing contractors and technical delivery partners to lead AI workstreams across applied initiatives. This role involves providing hands-on technical direction for AI prototypes, model development, data pipelines, and production systems while overseeing contractor onboarding and quality reviews. Key responsibilities include designing architectures for Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems, agentic workflows, and prompt engineering. The position requires expertise in Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, LangChain, LangGraph, and AWS or Azure services. Candidates must navigate complex technical challenges involving LLM evaluation, hallucination risk management, and observability using tools like Langfuse. The work focuses on accelerating scientific discovery and operational effectiveness within research, development, clinical, and regulatory domains, specifically addressing data quality, latency, security, and compliance in regulated environments.
Generative AI
Machine Learning
MLOps
Python
R
Scala
Java
AWS
Azure
Databricks
Causal Inference
Optimization
Predictive Modeling
Model Governance
Data Science
Statistics
Econometrics
Operations Research
Generative AI
LLMs
RAG
LangChain
LlamaIndex
Vector Databases
Prompt Engineering
Multi-agent Orchestration
Machine Learning
Data Science
Fine-tuning
Model Evaluation
AI Governance
Model Risk Management
Agile
AI
ML
Generative AI
Agentic AI
Python
R
Snowflake
Databricks
MLOps
A/B Testing
Causal Inference
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Data Architecture
Agile
Model Governance
Python
AWS
Spark
H2O
Scala
R
Conda
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Time Series
Clustering
Classification
Sentiment Analysis
Big Data
Relational Database