Data Scientist - Consulting Responsible AI

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The Position

Galileo is a strategic program driven by Roche Informatics, established to leverage AI to innovate, optimize operational business value, and improve healthcare outcomes at Roche. As part of this initiative, our Responsible AI team is dedicated to translating responsible AI and ethical principles into practice to enable the full potential of AI while minimizing risk through ethical, compliant, and efficient AI implementation across the organization. By driving the responsible deployment of AI solutions through the AI CoE, we support the development, scaling and adoption of trustworthy solutions to achieve exponential health benefits for patients, health systems, and societies globally.

We are looking for a highly skilled Data Scientist with expertise in Responsible AI practices to join our team. The ideal candidate will bring technical expertise in developing AI and machine learning solutions, as well as a strong understanding of model evaluation practices. This role will involve the integration of responsible AI methodologies into business processes, ensuring our operations align with Roche’s ethical standards and regulatory requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible AI Development: Collaborate with data scientists, AI engineers, AI experts, AI product owners, and stakeholders (e.g., legal, security, quality, ethics) to integrate responsible AI principles into scalable and robust applications, ensuring ethical AI deployment and compliance with regulatory standards.

• Automated AI Risk Evaluations: Design, develop, and integrate tools that support the automated evaluation of risks in LLM Models and AI solutions. 

• Performance Evaluation: Implement and refine techniques to evaluate the accuracy of AI outputs while promoting value consideration in AI solutions.

• Bias Mitigation: Implement and refine techniques to identify, mitigate, and monitor biases in AI outputs, promoting fairness and inclusivity in AI applications.

• Understanding of Roche’s Ethical Principles: Develop tools and frameworks to integrate Roche’s ethical principles into the development and deployment of AI solutions.

• Guide Product Teams: Collaborate with AI product teams to integrate responsible AI principles into the development and deployment of trustworthy, valuable, and compliant AI solutions.

• Training and Upskilling: Contribute to customized training programs on Responsible AI for various personas within the Roche Enterprise, ensuring widespread understanding and adoption.

• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with compliance, legal, regulatory, IT security, quality and ethics teams and within the AI Center of Excellence to ensure AI solutions meet ethical and regulatory standards and support the adoption and integration of responsible AI practices.

• Stakeholder Communication: Translate complex technical results into clear, actionable insights for stakeholders, driving data-driven decision-making across the organization.

Practical skills required:

• Experience: 5+ years working with advanced machine learning algorithms and at least 1 year of hands-on experience with Generative AI; experience in responsible AI practices preferred.

• Technical Skills: Advanced proficiency in Python and cloud knowledge; familiarity with responsible AI frameworks and tools considered an advantage.

• Evaluation Metrics: Deep understanding of model evaluation techniques, including performance, bias, toxicity, explainability, transparency, cost/value.

• Feature Engineering & Prompt Engineering: Strong skills in feature engineering, text preprocessing, and prompt engineering to improve model performance.

• Deployment: Experience in deploying AI models with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and machine learning workbenches for robust and scalable productization.

• Problem Solving: Excellent analytical skills and the ability to tackle complex challenges with innovative solutions.

• Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present complex findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Stakeholder Management and Collaboration:  Proven experience working closely with various Ix domains, ensuring alignment and collaboration between diverse teams. Experience working with compliance, legal, regulatory, IT security or quality is a plus.

• Training Development: Ability to create and deliver customized training programs to upskill various personas within the organization in responsible AI practices.

The successful candidate should also:

• Hold a B.Sc., B.Eng., M.Sc., M.Eng., Ph.D., or D.Eng. in Computer Science, Physics, Statistics, Mathematics, or an equivalent degree and experience with Artificial Intelligence.

• Be passionate about responsible AI and stay up-to-date with the latest developments in AI regulations and Roche policies.

• Be team-oriented, proactive, and collaborative.

• Be an excellent problem solver and analytical thinker.

• Be detail-oriented and highly organized.

• Be willing to learn and expand their skill set.

• Have the ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

• Be fluent in English.

• Be willing to work at a time consistent with CET and ET time zones.

Why Join Us?

• Innovative Environment: Work on cutting-edge responsible AI technologies in a highly visible Roche AI program. Learn and experiment with state-of-the-art AI technologies and frameworks.

• Growth Opportunities: Opportunities for professional development by working on high-impact objectives at the Enterprise level.

• Collaborative Culture: Be a part of a diverse and inclusive team that values collaboration and innovation.

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let’s build a healthier future, together.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.