General Medicines
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Job Title: Data Science, AI, and Machine Learning Lead

Location: Cambridge, MA

About the Job

Sanofi’s mission is to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. Sanofi is a company that’s on the rise. We are expanding in multiple directions, across borders and, most of all, in the way we think. At Sanofi, we’re building a team of brilliant individuals to drive the success of a new healthcare business to transform healthcare for all. People are the most critical ingredient to our success.

Sanofi's General Medicines Digital Healthcare Team seeks a skilled and driven Data Science, AI, and Machine Learning (ML) Lead to drive and support the development and launch of innovative digital care and life management programs targeting diabetes and other chronic conditions. We are building a comprehensive digital health platform that empowers patients with chronic conditions and their informal caregivers to manage health journeys more effectively together. Our platform combines multiple modular services into a seamless ecosystem that bridges the gap between clinical care and daily life management.

As a Data Science, AI, and ML Lead on Sanofi's General Medicines Digital Healthcare Team, you will play a crucial role in leading the technical design and development of the data management, advanced analytics, and AI/ML capabilities of our consumer-centric digital health platform. In this role, you will leverage advanced mathematical and statistical methodologies to extract meaningful insights from diverse data sources, develop predictive models, and create AI-driven solutions that improve health outcomes and overall quality of life for patients with chronic conditions and their caregivers.

Your role will also involve the development of secure and scalable platforms to support the efficient management of increasingly large and complex volumes of clinical and non-clinical data, including the implementation of systems for efficient federated data management as well as federated learning. This role requires strong data engineering and software development expertise combined with an understanding of healthcare data standards and privacy and security requirements.

You will ultimately be responsible for the development and implementation of consumer-centric and healthcare professional-focused digital tools aimed at enhancing medication adherence and achieving optimal health outcomes. This role requires strong leadership, project management, cross-functional collaboration, and technical expertise to ensure successful delivery of initiatives while optimizing program performance and alignment with business objectives.

We are an innovative global healthcare company with a focus on immunology that extends to innovation in diabetes and transplant medicine. Across different countries, our talented teams are determined to deliver a best-in-class customer experience using the best of digital, artificial intelligence and personal know-how. With a focus on immunology that extends to innovation in diabetes and transplant medicines, we pursue Progress to make a real impact on millions of patients around the world.

Main Responsibilities:

• Lead the development and implementation of the data science, AI, and machine learning capabilities for our consumer-centric digital health platform, aligning with business objectives and consumer needs.

• Lead the technical design and development of federated data management and federated learning systems to support scalability of our digital health platform and to support patient ownership and control of healthcare data.

• Design and apply complex mathematical models and statistical methods to analyze datasets that include multi-modal clinical data (including patient-reported outcomes, remote patient monitoring device data, EHR data, and claims data), social determinants of health data, and consumer behavior data.

• Develop data engineering architectures and systems to ensure data quality, governance, and interoperability.

• Create predictive models to identify health and wellness risks, recommend interventions, and personalize care journeys.

• Develop innovative approaches to support patients, informal caregivers, and other individuals through data-driven health and wellness insights and tools.

• Design and implement AI-based agents and chatbots to enhance consumer engagement and to improve efficiency and productivity of care management and administrative team members.

• Perform feature engineering and selection to optimize model performance and extract meaningful insights from complex datasets, and develop automated feature engineering pipelines to ensure scalability and reproducibility.

• Rigorously evaluate and validate machine learning models using appropriate metrics and techniques, ensuring robustness, generalizability, and clinical relevance, and establish best practices for model validation, including the use of held-out datasets, cross-validation, and external validation.

• Collaborate with product, engineering, clinical, and behavioral science teams to develop actionable insights and intelligent features within patient- and caregiver-facing digital tools.

• Stay current with emerging research and technologies in data science, AI, and machine learning, and explore new methodologies and technologies to enhance our platform's capabilities.

About You

Education and Experience

• Advanced degree (MS or PhD) in Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Biostatistics, or related field.

• 8+ years of experience in developing data management systems for large volumes of data and applying complex mathematical and statistical methods to real-world problems.

• 2+ years of experience in developing data science, analytics, and AI/ML solutions with Databricks.

• Proven track record developing and deploying machine learning models in production environments.

• Experience in Python, R, or similar languages, and experience with ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch).

Preferred:

• Experience with natural language processing, computer vision, or time-series analysis.

• Experience with healthcare data and analytics, or experience developing healthcare technology and applications.

• Understanding of healthcare data standards and healthcare workflows

Professional Skills / Competencies

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

• Work effectively in a matrixed organization, influencing stakeholders without direct authority.

• Strong negotiation, collaboration, and influence management skills.

• Excellent communication skills to articulate clinical concepts and rationale to stakeholders.

• Comfortable with ambiguity and adaptable to complex and dynamic situations.

• Multicultural awareness to enable collaboration with diverse, global teams.

• Passionate about improving access to care and healthcare experiences.

Join us on our journey to change healthcare for all and for good. Be a part of an innovative team committed to creating technology that makes a meaningful difference in people's daily lives, reducing the cognitive and emotional burden of managing chronic health conditions and driving positive health outcomes. Your work will directly impact patients and caregivers who are navigating complex healthcare journeys together.

Why Choose Us?

• Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.

• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.

• Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.

• Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs and at least 14 weeks’ gender-neutral parental leave.

Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; marital, domestic partnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liability for military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other characteristic protected by law.

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All compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs, and additional benefits information can be found here.

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