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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
26 open roles
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Listed pay typically runs
$194,600–$361,400
across 26 roles with salary data.
The Director, Agentic Lab reports to the Executive Director, Agentic Architecture & Lab. In this role, you will lead the design, prototyping, and validation of next-generation AI agents and autonomous workflows. You will evaluate foundation models, agent frameworks, orchestration technologies, and developer tooling to create reusable proof-of-concepts and reference implementations for the Agentic Factory. Collaborating with engineering, product, and architecture teams, you will productionize prototypes while defining best practices for prompt engineering, reasoning strategies, memory architectures, evaluation, and observability. You will also mentor engineers and establish enterprise standards for AI agents. Required expertise includes LLMs, agent frameworks, RAG, vector databases, APIs, Python, and cloud-native development. The role focuses on solving the technical challenges of building production-grade AI applications and developing developer ecosystems within regulated industries like pharmaceutical or healthcare sectors.
Agentic AI
LLMs
RAG
Python
Vector Databases
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
AI Orchestration
Cloud Platforms
APIs
Data Science
Graph Algorithms
Time Series Analysis
Statistical Analysis
Data Visualization