Head Of Data & Ai Platforms, Beijing

AstraZeneca

Beijing, China
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Ai engineering standards
Model evaluation platform
Ai-ready data layer
** AstraZeneca is seeking a Head of Data & AI Platforms for their Beijing AI Center, which focuses on leveraging AI to enhance drug discovery. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in AI and machine learning, leadership skills, and familiarity with the Chinese AI ecosystem, including fluency in Mandarin. **

Job Summary

  • This role owns the AI capability layer for the Beijing AI Center, defining how AI gets done by building reusable platform capabilities.
  • You will define and maintain AI engineering standards, curate reusable training recipes, and establish a reproducibility framework.
  • You will recruit, manage, and develop a team of platform FTEs, setting the technical direction and quality bar for all platform deliverables.

Matching Summary

Match Score: 75

** AstraZeneca is seeking a Head of Data & AI Platforms for their Beijing AI Center, which focuses on leveraging AI to enhance drug discovery. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in AI and machine learning, leadership skills, and familiarity with the Chinese AI ecosystem, including fluency in Mandarin. **

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • AI engineering standards
  • model evaluation platform
  • AI-ready data layer
  • agentic AI capabilities
  • distributed training
  • parameter-efficient fine-tuning
  • LLM tooling
  • MLOps fundamentals

Nice-to-have

  • biopharma domain knowledge
  • academic partnership management
  • multi-org delivery models

Key Requirements

  • 10+ years in AI/ML platform engineering
  • 5+ years leading technical teams
  • Mandarin fluency required
  • Ability to work in Beijing full-time

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