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Job Title Data / AI Scientist
Primary Location Cambridge, MA
Secondary Location Zurich, Switzerland
About The Role
We are looking for an experienced and driven Data / AI Scientist to join the Digital Innovation and AI team within Global Manufacturing & Supply / Global Quality Data Digital & Technology (GMS/GQ DD&T). Our team strives to be a leader in digital and presenting new ideas amongst our peers in the pharmaceutical industry – we identify capability gaps, design digital solutions, accelerate experimentation, conduct market research, and improve business operations end-to-end. We are a small team, so you should be prepared to roll up your sleeves and flex a wide variety of skills. You will be able to adapt quickly to shifting priorities, manage through ambiguity, while keeping focus on key strategic opportunities.
How You Will Contribute

• Establish methods, set standards, suggest governance to ensure model integrity
• Document model development and outcomes that will be stored for regulatory purposes
• Work across GMS/GQ to define the technical problem statement, identify hypothesis to test, and develop novel ways to meet objectives utilizing cutting-edge techniques and tools
• Be a solid team player with no direct reports, and have a strong ability to influence others
• Effectively communicate the analytics approach and how it will address business objectives, in a manner that is easy for technical and non-technical audiences to comprehend
• Collaborate, coach, and learn with a growing team of data scientists with varying levels of expertise in the field
• Create repeatable, interpretable, dynamic, and scalable models that can be seamlessly incorporated into analytic data products
• Understand how to utilize different supervised and unsupervised learning techniques, when to apply them, and how to remove biases
• Appropriately leverage open - source algorithms and fine-tune them for specific needs
• Collaborate cross-functionally with different back-end and front-end engineering teams
• Design and develop test automation, and potential scaling roadmap
• Be creative in combining internal and external data sources to engineer features

What You Bring To Takeda
Skills and Requirements

• 12+ years real-world experience applying strong expertise in artificial intelligence through use of machine learning and data mining, to design, prototype, and build next generation analytics
• Enjoys teaching others who are less knowledgeable about the latest industry trends and technologies
• Firm grasp of industry, digital, and artificial intelligence trends and market conditions
• Experience in biopharmaceutical or manufacturing industry, is a plus
• Industry experience developing, training, and testing of deep learning models, preferably in the life-sciences domain
• Highly skilled in agile product development and expert user of Jira, Confluence, Databricks, Python or R, Spark, and Hive
• Comfortable working with structured and unstructured data, where data validation and cleaning is needed and data annotation may be required
• Hands-on development of AI solutions that comply with sound ethical use of data, government regulations, and industry standards
• Experience evaluating different technology partners, inclusive of evaluation criteria preparation and testing framework development
• Ability to work cross-functionally with other data scientists and developers across multiple geographies; and ability to guide engineers on how to remove technical road-blocks
• Knowledge of public cloud infrastructure
• Experience building custom solutions on Microsoft 365 platform, is a plus
• Self-starter who proactively brings forward new ideas and seeks ways to achieve the product vision quicker while adhering to best practices and regulatory guidelines

Where You Will Be

• We have a hybrid working environment
• Primary office location for this role will be Lexington / Cambridge MA
• We are a global organization with many colleagues in the US Eastern and Central European time zones

What Takeda Can Offer You

• Comprehensive Healthcare Medical, Dental, and Vision
• Tuition reimbursement
• Family Planning Support
• Generous time off for vacation and the option to purchase additional vacation days
• Professional training and development opportunities
• Financial Planning & Stability 401(k) with company match and Annual Retirement Contribution Plan
• Community Outreach Programs and company match of charitable contributions
• Health & Wellness programs including onsite flu shots and health screenings

Important Considerations
At Takeda, our patients rely on us to deliver quality products. As a result, we must follow strict rules in our manufacturing facilities to ensure we are not endangering the quality of the product. In this role, you may

• Need to remove all make-up, jewelry, contact lenses, nail polish and/or artificial fingernails while in the manufacturing environment.
• Work multiple shifts, including weekends, or be asked to work supplemental hours, as necessary.
• Work around chemicals such as alcohol, acids, buffers and Celite that may require respiratory protection.
• Work in a controlled environment requiring special gowning and wear protective clothing over the head, face, hands, feet and body. This may include additional hearing protection for loud areas.
• Work in a cold, wet environment.

More about us
At Takeda, we are transforming patient care through the development of novel specialty pharmaceuticals and best in class patient support programs. Takeda is a patient-focused company that will inspire and empower you to grow through life-changing work.
Certified as a Global Top Employer, Takeda offers stimulating careers, encourages innovation, and strives for excellence in everything we do. We foster an inclusive, collaborative workplace, in which our teams are united by an unwavering commitment to deliver Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the world.
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Locations
Boston, MA
Worker Type
Employee
Worker Sub-Type
Regular
Time Type
Full time