Postdoctoral Scientist, Generative AI (12-month Fixed Contract)
Johnson & JohnsonAbout the role
At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com
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Titusville, New Jersey, United States of AmericaJob Description:
About Innovative Medicine
Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow. Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine.
We are searching for the best talent for Postdoctoral Scientist, Generative AI! This hybrid position is a duration-based (12-month Fixed Contract) and is located in Titusville, New Jersey.
This is an exciting opening within the Advanced Manufacturing organization of Manufacturing Science and Technology (MSAT) at Johnson & Johnson! This role will support global teams in developing Generative AI solutions that enhance business value in our manufacturing processes. As part of the Global Process Science Modeling & Data team (PSMD), you will promote sophisticated AI techniques, collaborate with experts, and establish capabilities to improve AI’s operational impact. You will lead AI model development and optimization, manage partnerships, and drive project execution across global sites to support process improvements and manufacturing excellence.
Are you a motivated Postdoc Scientist, interested in joining a team that is helping improve patient care and drive innovation? We support sites all over the globe and all platforms and modalities. Our mission is to make Johnson & Johnson's manufacturing processes faster and cost-efficient while improving product quality!
Key Responsibilities:
Develop, train, and optimize language models and evaluate and enhance their performance, precision, and alignment with business goals, thereby improving the efficiency in manufacturing processes and investigations.
Collaborate effectively with software engineers and product deployment teams to transition Gen AI apps into production ready real-world applications within our manufacturing portfolio across synthetics, biotherapeutics and advanced therapies.
Develop prototypes and assess Large Language Models (LLM) scenarios to improve user experiences.
Develop, test, and implement reasoning capabilities in AI models and implement techniques in reinforcement learning and knowledge graphs.
Stay updated on the latest advancements in Generative AI and investigate opportunities by researching relevant publications and open source GitHub repositories, while actively exploring and testing techniques from these studies that can contribute to industrial manufacturing applications.
Explore Agentic AI techniques to optimize automated systems, enabling them to learn and adapt to dynamic manufacturing scenarios with a focus on autonomy, adaptability, and robustness based on feedback and performance metrics.
Effectively and systematically present findings through strong writing and fluent communications, while ensuring comprehensive and clear documentation of model architectures, training methods, and evaluation results.
QUALIFICATIONS:
EDUCATION:
Minimum of a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) or equivalent degree is required; focused degree preferred in Engineering, Statistics, Data Science, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, Bioinformatics, or an equivalent quantitative field
EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS:
Required:
Minimum of 2 years of relevant work experience, including internships, research, or similar experience
Programming language expertise in Python, SQL, and/or R
Familiarity with data structures, algorithms, version contro
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