Sr Principal Scientist – AI and Data Scientist for Safety Sciences

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything.

Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com

Job Function:
Discovery & Pre-Clinical/Clinical Development

Job Sub Function:
Nonclinical Safety

Job Category:
Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:
Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium

Job Description:

About Innovative Medicine

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements.

Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.

Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine

We are seeking a Senior Principal Scientist with confirmed expertise in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), sophisticated analytics and data integration to join our Translational Safety Pharmacology team, within Preclinical Sciences & Translational Safety.

The candidate will develop, deploy and implement new AI/ML and data science approaches to analyze and integrate diverse preclinical datasets including but not limited to safety pharmacology (in vitro/ex-vivo/in vivo, clinical), off-on target pharmacology, toxicology, biomarkers, Pharmacokinetics/Pharmacodynamics, etc.

The Senior Principal Scientist will be responsible for deploying AI/ML and data science solutions enabling the design of safer molecules earlier,  enable hypothesis generation from multi-modal data and accelerate translational insights across preclinical/clinical safety functions, as well as across drug discovery.

In this position, you will be empowering scientific research as a technology authority, collaborating closely with scientists, engineers, and business collaborators to meet specific business needs within our preclinical environment by developing and leading innovative AI strategies and solutions.

Key responsibilities:


* Develop and deploy AI/ML models and data science solutions to integrate and analyze multi-parametric preclinical data (e.g., in vitro, ex vivo and in vivo pharmacology, toxicology, clinical, ADME, efficacy datasets).

Champion innovation by tapping into expertise in AI, data science, and advanced modelling to propose new technical strategies that address the business challenges.


* Independently develop solutions for preclinical data aggregation, interpretation, processing, reporting and visualization of results and analytics.


* Deploy quality control m...