Senior Scientist – Generative AI for Workflow, Applications and Plug-ins

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Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine (J&J IM) develops treatments that improve the health and well-being of people worldwide. Research and development areas encompass oncology, cardiovascular and retina disorders, immunology, and neuroscience. Our goal is to help people live longer and healthier lives. We have produced and marketed many first-in-class prescription medications and are poised to serve the broad needs of the healthcare market, from patients to practitioners and from clinics to hospitals. To learn more about J&J IM, please visit https://www.jnj.com/.

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine (J&J IM) is recruiting for a Senior Scientist – Generative AI for Workflow, Applications and Plug-ins development Team. This position has a primary location of Madrid or Barcelona (Spain). This is a hybrid role.

Role Summary

As a Senior Scientist in the Workflow, Applications and Plug-ins team within Data, Data Science and AI Org, you will lead the technical and product evolution of reusable GenAI-enabled content-authoring workflows across R&D, spanning therapeutic-area document generation, regulatory authoring, scientific content workflows and future integration with broader dossier and submission processes.

The role will help establish a reusable document-authoring capability on an internally built Agentic Platform rather than creating isolated solutions for individual document types.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead technical strategy and implementation of GenAI-enabled document-authoring workflows.
• Translate individual document workflows into reusable authoring capabilities and identify document-specific versus enterprise-common logic.
• Develop roadmap and requirements across multiple document classes and R&D functions.
• Establish patterns for evidence retrieval, grounding, drafting, citation, structured content, review and revision.
• Partner with Data teams to define source-data requirements and enterprise data connectivity.
• Partner with Evaluation & Quality to establish content-quality, faithfulness, traceability and regulatory-readiness evaluation.
• Integrate reusable QC/content-review capabilities into authoring workflows.
• Evaluate where external vendor capabilities can be consumed as modular services rather than forcing end-to-end vendor architectures.
• Work with Foundation Platform Team to identify reusable plugin and platform requirements generated from document-authoring use cases.
• Provide technical leadership to engineers, contractors, domain SMEs and federated Data Science partners.
• Drive workflows from prototype toward scalable enterprise capability.

Required Qualifications

• Master's degree in AI/ML, Computer Science, Engineering, Bioinformatics, or related field with 2+ years of hands-on experience in GenAI Science/Engineering.
• Hands-on experience with multi-agent frameworks such as LangGraph, DSPy, memO, or similar architectures.
• Strong proficiency in Python and modern deep-learning frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow).
• Experience building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, including chunking, embeddings, vector databases, and reranking.
• Knowledge of advanced mathematical concepts such as uncertainty quantification, probabilistic modelling, or information theory.
• Experience implementing structured generation, schema enforcement, and model/tool orchestration for complex workflows.
• Positive, motivated, collaborative approach with the ability to work independently and within a multidisciplinary environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of the drug development pipeline, regulatory submissions, and biological or chemical data types.
• Familiarity with scientific literature analysis, knowledge extraction, and structured content generation.
• Experience in QC systems, verification agents, or regulatory document automation.
• Experience fine-tuning LLMs for specialised domains and deploying AI systems in cloud environments (AWS or Azure).
• Strong understanding of statistical validation methods for AI-driven workflows.
• Experience with Git-based development and CI/CD pipelines.

Our Values

Integrity, innovation, collaboration, and responsibility are at the heart of everything we do. We foster an inclusive environment where diverse perspectives drive breakthrough solutions.

Johnson & Johnson is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against based on disability.

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In addition to base pay, we offer the following benefits*: an annual bonus with set target (% of pay) depending on pay grade / location, where the actual amount is based on the employees’ and companies’ performance of the previous calendar year, or sales commissions. Moreover, we offer vacation days, parental leave for a minimum of 12 weeks, bereavement leave, caregiver leave, volunteer leave, well-being reimbursement, programs for financial, physical and mental health. We also offer service anniversary and recognition awards, and subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees - and in some location’s eligible dependents - can participate in several insurance plans. For more information, visit Employee benefits | Supporting well-being & career growth | Johnson & Johnson Careers.

*This is for informative purposes only. Amounts and actual benefits may vary by location and are subject to change.