Director, World Model & Agentic Learning

Johnson & Johnson

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Titusville, NJSpring House, PACambridge, MALa Jolla, CA
Salary
$164,000–$282,900 / yr
Posted
30 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday
Closes
Sep 26, 2026

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About Johnson & Johnson

Johnson & Johnson is a multinational corporation operating in three main segments: consumer health products, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices, known for brands like Tylenol, Band-Aid, and Janssen. Industry: Pharmaceuticals & Medical Devices

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TL;DR · Director, World Model & Agentic Learning

Director, World Model & Agentic Learning joins the Data, Data Science & AI organization to lead a specialized team within the Generative AI group. This leadership role focuses on building an enterprise world model and agentic-learning capabilities for a reusable R&D agentic AI platform. The successful candidate will design technical architectures for knowledge representation, ensuring agents reason against accumulated domain understanding rather than re-deriving information from raw sources. Key responsibilities include developing mechanisms for continuous learning through expert corrections and in-context refinement to improve system performance over time. The role requires expertise in large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic frameworks, and knowledge representation. This position addresses the challenge of creating durable, product-agnostic capabilities where systems must maintain high confidence, remain auditable, and provide consistent reasoning within complex, high-stakes research and development environments.

What you'll do

  • Design systems where agents represent accumulated domain knowledge rather than re-deriving information from raw sources on every task.
  • Build mechanisms for AI systems to identify and report their own confidence levels, boundaries, and data contradictions.
  • Develop agentic learning capabilities that allow the system to improve through operation and expert feedback instead of retraining.
  • Ensure knowledge gained in one workflow automatically compounds and surfaces across other relevant domains.
  • Partner with scientists and domain experts to ensure their judgment is applied consistently at scale by the AI systems.
  • Establish accountability by ensuring every AI conclusion is auditable, traceable, and reconstructable for evaluation against real-world outcomes.
  • Recruit, develop, and lead a team of 4–8 AI scientists focused on continual learning and knowledge representation.
  • Set the technical direction and architecture for the enterprise world model and agentic-learning capabilities.

What we're looking for

  • Minimum 8 years of post-academic industry experience building and shipping AI/ML systems with ownership of technical architecture.
  • Deep, hands-on expertise in large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic frameworks, and knowledge representation.
  • Demonstrated track record designing systems where knowledge accumulation, memory, or continual learning was the primary technical challenge.
  • Experience designing systems that improve from real-world operation and expert feedback through active learning or in-context refinement.
  • Strong people leadership experience including recruiting, developing, and leading technical teams in a matrixed organization.
  • Ability to set, defend, and hold a team accountable to a specific technical architecture.
  • Advanced degree (PhD preferred) in computer science, AI/ML, applied mathematics, or a related discipline.
  • Experience working with knowledge graphs, ontologies, or other explicit knowledge representations.

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