Director, AIML & Scientific Computing Optimization

The Onyx Research Data Tech organization is GSK’s Research data ecosystem which has the capability to bring together, analyze, and power the exploration of data at scale. We partner with scientists across GSK to define and understand their challenges and develop tailored solutions that meet their needs. The goal is to ensure scientists have the right data and insights when they need it to give them a better starting point for and accelerate medical discovery. Ultimately, this helps us get ahead of disease in more predictive and powerful ways.

Onyx is a full-stack shop consisting of product and portfolio leadership, data engineering, infrastructure and DevOps, data / metadata / knowledge platforms, and AI/ML and analysis platforms, all geared toward:​

• Building a next-generation, metadata- and automation-driven data experience for GSK’s scientists, engineers, and decision-makers, increasing productivity and reducing time spent on “data mechanics”.
• Providing best-in-class AI/ML and data analysis environments to accelerate our predictive capabilities and attract top-tier talent.
• Aggressively engineering our data at scale, as one unified asset, to unlock the value of our unique collection of data and predictions in real-time.

Our AIML & Scientific Computing Optimization team is focused on optimizing first-in-class Compute and AIML platforms that accelerate application development, scale up computational experiments, and integrate all computation with project metadata, logs, experiment configuration and performance tracking over abstractions that encompass Cloud and High-Performance Computing. This metadata-forward, CI/CD-driven platform represents and enables the entire application and analysis lifecycle including interactive development and explorations (notebooks), large-scale batch processing, observability and production application deployments. The optimization team’s focus is on maximizing scale and performance of all aspects of the platforms.

A Director of AIML & Scientific Computing Optimization is a deeply technical leader. They consistently deliver major compute and AIML platform features and solutions with cross-organizational impact and value. They are recognized as expert in software engineering, scientific computing, and/or AIML with deep understanding of performance and optimization, within the Onyx team, across R&D Digital & Tech, and even externally. They can work closely with -- and have strong technical knowledge of – underlying platform dependencies such as DevOps, Infrastructure and Cloud and can enable collaborations and help drive the requirements across other Onyx engineering teams that results in improved performance and better user experience.

This role is responsible for building and leading a team of world-class software engineers focused on optimizing a best-in-class Compute and AIML Platforms at scale, quality, and cost. The Director of AIML & Scientific Computing Optimization will support the Sr. Director of Computing, Analysis, and AI/ML Platforms in building a strong culture of accountability and ownership in their team, as well as instilling best-in-class engineering practices (e.g. testing, code reviews, DevOps-forward ways of working). They work in close partnership with AI/ML Platform team, Compute Platform team, Data and Infrastructure Engineering, Product Management, Portfolio Management, and other engineering functions to ensure close alignment with customers and with engineering teams both upstream and downstream of their work.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build, lead, develop, and retain world-class software engineers
• Serve as a top expert for the optimization team, and contribute technical expertise to teams in closely aligned technical areas such as DevOps, Cloud and Infrastructure
• Lead design of major optimization software components of the Compute and AIML Platforms, contribute to development of production code and participate in both design reviews and PR reviews
• Accountable for delivery of scalable solutions to the Compute and AIML Platforms that supports the entire application lifecycle (interactive development and explorations/analysis, scalable batch processing, application deployment) with particular focus on performance at scale
• Partner with both AIML and Compute platform teams as well as scientific users to help optimize and scale scientific workflows by utilizing deep understanding of both software as well as underlying infrastructure (networking, storage, GPU architectures, …)
• Direct scrum team leads, and contribute technical expertise to teams in closely aligned technical areas
• Able to design innovative strategy and way of working to create a better environment for the end users, and able to construct a coordinated, stepwise plan to bring others along wi