Principal, IT Engineering Enablement - AI Platforms | Onsite San Diego HQ

What you'll do

• Owns strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle for Neurocrine’s AI/ML platforms including model orchestration and performance monitoring.
• Leads evaluation and integration of foundation models and third-party services to support enterprise AI use cases.
• Develops Responsible AI governance framework and ensures compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Drives end-to-end execution of AI initiatives across multi-team programs, ensuring alignment and delivery velocity.
• Establishes and monitors KPIs for platform health, including business impact, quality of response, and usage patterns.
• Partners with cross-functional teams to shape AI concepts into actionable initiatives and ensure consistent adoption.

What we're looking for

• Over 10 years of experience in IT or related fields, preferably in pharmaceuticals or regulated environments.
• Strong understanding of enterprise AI components including RAG pipelines, embedding services, LLM orchestration, prompt governance, and model performance monitoring.
• Experience delivering automation frameworks, integration platforms, and reusable services with a focus on telemetry, observability, SLOs, and platform reliability practices.
• Familiarity with data privacy, security requirements, and responsible AI concepts, including foundation models and vector databases.
• Ability to define long-term platform roadmaps, measure KPIs, and drive complex multi-team initiatives in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Expertise in influencing stakeholders across engineering, data, cybersecurity, and business units without direct authority.