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About Novartis
Novartis is a global biopharmaceutical company that researches, develops, manufactures, and markets prescription drugs in areas including oncology, immunology, neuroscience, and cardiology. Industry: Biopharmaceuticals
Novartis currently has
17 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$176,400–$327,600
across 17 roles with salary data.
Director, Agentic Lab leads the design, prototyping, and validation of next-generation AI agents and autonomous workflows within the Agentic Architecture & Lab team. The role involves evaluating foundation models, agent frameworks, and orchestration technologies to develop reusable proof-of-concepts, accelerators, and reference implementations for the Agentic Factory. Key responsibilities include partnering with engineering and product teams to productionize successful prototypes while defining best practices for prompt engineering, reasoning strategies, memory architectures, evaluation, and observability. The position requires hands-on expertise with LLMs, RAG, vector databases, APIs, Python, and cloud-native development. Candidates must possess a strong software engineering background to build production-grade AI applications. This role specifically addresses the technical challenge of creating enterprise-scale agentic AI platforms and developer ecosystems within regulated industries like pharmaceutical or healthcare.
Agentic AI
LLMs
RAG
Python
Vector Databases
AI Orchestration
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
APIs
Cloud Platforms
Data Science
Graph Algorithms
Time Series Analysis
Statistical Analysis
Data Governance
Data Visualization