Director, Scientific Compute & AI Platforms
Director, Scientific Compute & AI Platforms
India - Hyderabad Apply Now
JOB ID: R-228512
ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:
India - Hyderabad
WORK LOCATION TYPE:
On Site
DATE POSTED: Dec. 02, 2025
CATEGORY: Information Systems
You will lead the AIN-based data science organization that builds and operates scientific computational, data, and AI/ML pipelines and workflows for Amgen Research. You will operate across India/EU/US (Eastern, Central, Pacific) time zones and coordinate outcomes across the ARIA, Global Research, ATMOS Tech, and ATMOS AI&D. You will own portfolio outcomes across the Research data ecosystem, AI/ML for research, and high-performance computing enablement, ensuring robust, resilient pipelines and reliable, scalable services.
Core Responsibilities
- Set multi-year strategy, organization design, and investment roadmap for research compute & AI platforms.
- Establish standards and promote methods for robust, resilient computational and data science pipelines; drive adoption and measure cycle-time impact.
- Govern capacity, cost, and quality: quotas, GPU utilization, $/compute-hour, and SLA attainment.
- Partner on schemas, vocabularies, lineage, and compliance with Reseach data stewards.
- Coordinate instrument onboarding and lab software integrations with RA&T.
- Mentor and grow L5/L4 engineers; develop on-call rotations and technical leadership bench.
Core Competencies
- Enterprise strategy, product/platform thinking, and financial acumen.
- Global change leadership; cross-cultural communication across time zones.
- Platform engineering literacy: containers/Kubernetes; workflow orchestration (Nextflow/Airflow/Argo/Prefect).
- Compute literacy: HPC schedulers (Slurm) and/or distributed compute (Spark/Ray/Databricks).
- Data governance literacy: schemas, vocabularies, lineage, and compliance.
- Executive communication; stakeholder management across science, engineering, and operations.
Qualifications
- Basic: Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree (MSc/PhD) preferred
- Scientific literacy: Training and experience in chemistry, biology, or related scientific fields
- Domain literacy: Familiarity with R&D domains (biology, chemistry, protein science, computational sciences) and experience partnering closely with scientists.
- Technical literacy: Python plus one of Java/Scala/C++; containers/Kubernetes; workflow orchestration; HPC schedulers; distributed compute; data lakehouse; CI/CD
- Experience: 18–24 years in platform/software/data leadership with cross‑region operations; budget/vendor management; policy/standards influence