
General Medicines
Wo Ideen und Wissenschaft die Gesundheit von morgen gestalten.
Data Science, AI, and Machine Learning Lead
Auf einen Blick:
Mit uns betrittst Du Neuland in einem wachsenden und vielfältigen Portfolio – von etablierten Medikamenten, auf die Millionen Menschen vertrauen, bis hin zu bahnbrechenden Errungenschaften in der Immunologie und der Behandlung chronischer Krankheiten. Stelle Dir das Ausmaß vor: Deine Arbeit wird dazu beitragen, Behandlungen für Menschen auf der ganzen Welt bereitzustellen, die mit Diabetes, Herz-Kreislauf-Erkrankungen und Komplikationen nach Transplantationen leben.
Angetrieben von bahnbrechenden technologischen Fortschritten beschleunigen wir Innovationen und erweitern den Zugang schneller als je zuvor. Wenn Du bereit bist, Grenzen zu überschreiten, die Leistungsfähigkeit von KI und digitalen Tools zu nutzen und die Zukunft des Gesundheitswesens zu gestalten, treffen hier Deine Ambitionen auf Wirkung.
Reference No. R2809701
Position Title: Data Science, AI, and Machine Learning Lead
Department: Data Science and Applied AI, EDGE
Location: Toronto, ON
About the Job
Our Hubs are a crucial part of how we innovate, improving performance across every Sanofi department and providing a springboard for the amazing work we do. Build a career and you can be part of transforming our business while helping to change millions of lives.
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, Engineering, 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.
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.
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
This position is for a new vacant role that we are actively hiring for.
Sanofi is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. Our goal is to attract, develop and retain highly talented employees from diverse backgrounds, allowing us to benefit from a wide variety of experiences and perspectives. We welcome and encourage applications from all qualified applicants. Accommodations for persons with disabilities required during the recruitment process are available upon request.
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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.
Les employés peuvent être admissibles à participer aux programmes d'avantages sociaux de l'entreprise. Des informations supplémentaires sur les avantages sociaux peuvent être trouvées ici.
Diversity und Inklusion sind in den Grundwerten von Sanofi verankert und spiegeln sich in unserer Arbeitsweise wider. Wir respektieren die Vielfalt unserer Belegschaft in Hinsicht auf ihre Herkunft, Erfahrungen und Lebensweisen. Wir erkennen die Bereicherung, die diese Vielfalt birgt, und fördern Inklusion sowie eine Arbeitsumgebung, in der diese Unterschiede sich weiter entwickeln können, zur Stärkung des Lebens unserer Mitarbeiter, Patienten und Kunden.
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Warum mit uns arbeiten?
- Tue, was noch nie zuvor getan wurde. Wir verschieben die Grenzen des Möglichen: Wir erweitern den Zugang, beschleunigen Innovationen und finden neue Wege, um die Gesundheit von Millionen zu verbessern.
- Treibe den Wandel voran. Wir führen den Übergang zu einer KI-gestützten Gesundheitsversorgung an und nutzen digitale Tools, um die Entwicklung, Herstellung und weltweite Bereitstellung von Medikamenten neu zu erfinden.
- Liefere in großem Maßstab. Unsere Reichweite ist unübertroffen – wir bieten Millionen Menschen weltweit vertrauenswürdige Behandlungen und sorgen für einen breiten Zugang und eine echte Wirkung in jeder Phase der Versorgung.
- Mache einen Unterschied, der zählt. Von der Bewältigung globaler Gesundheitsprobleme bis hin zur Förderung einer nachhaltigen, integrativen Gesundheitsversorgung – alles, was wir tun, ist von einem Ziel getrieben.
Wer weckt Dein Potenzial?
Bei Sam war es ihre Mutter – sie lehrte sie, zuzuhören, Grenzen zu überschreiten und Patient*innen an die erste Stelle zu setzen. Bei Sanofi wissen wir, dass Deine Inspiration Deine Wirkung bestimmt. Bringe Deine Leidenschaft mit und gemeinsam jagen wir den Wundern der Wissenschaft nach.

"Jede Krankheit, jedes Land, jeder Mensch bringt Erwartungen mit sich, die uns herausfordern, Grenzen zu überschreiten, über bessere Ansätze für die Gesundheitsversorgung nachzudenken und neue Möglichkeiten zu erschließen."

Olivier Charmeil
Executive Vice President, General Medicines
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