
Cyber Security Expert (Quantum and AI)
Lyon, France Permanent Posté le Jul. 04, 2025 Expire le Sep. 05, 2025Le contenu du poste est libellé en anglais car il nécessite de nombreuses interactions avec nos filiales à l’international, l'anglais étant la langue de travail.
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Job title:Cyber Security Expert (Quantum and AI)
- Location: France, Lyon Carteret
- 40% Remote working
- Job type: Permanent Full time
About the job
We are a global biopharmaceutical company focused on human health. Our purpose is to find treatment to fight pain and ease suffering. We combine breakthrough science and advanced technology to develop life-changing medicines and vaccines.
About Sanofi's Cyber Security and Risks & Compliance Team:
At Sanofi, our Cyber Security team plays a crucial role in developing trust in our digital activities. We provide cutting-edge security services to mitigate cyber risks that could threaten our customers, employees, shareholders, products, and processes. As one of the key enablers of Sanofi's digital ambition, we're at the forefront of expediting value creation through innovative and optimized computerized capabilities.
Our global Cyber Security organization operates consistently at Sanofi's scale, addressing any cyber challenge or threat against the company across all corporate and business entities. Our reach extends to our external stakeholders, ensuring comprehensive protection in an increasingly interconnected digital landscape.
Are you ready to contribute to our Cyber Security journey within a worldwide and innovative global healthcare company devoted to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives?
The Cyber Security contribution to this noble mission is to ensure that this purpose will never be endangered by Cyber threats. Comprising around 85+ employees, we are a global, multidisciplinary and diverse team committed to supporting and enabling digital transformation with trust. A keen sense of excellence, creativity and a data-driven mindset are our guiding principles.
Sanofi is also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible. Ready to get started?
At Sanofi, we are committed to staying ahead of the curve in a rapidly evolving digital landscape. To support this mission, we are looking for a candidate to contribute in two strategic areas:
- Post Quantum Cryptography: With the rapid Progress of Quantum computing, we recognize the critical importance of evaluating and future-proofing our cybersecurity infrastructure to ensure resilience in the Quantum era
- Artificial Intelligence: We are pioneering the development of next-generation intelligent systems where Generative AI converges with Agentic AI to create autonomous, adaptive, and creative digital security agents
We are seeking a Cybersecurity Expert to lead our efforts in understanding, preparing for, and transitioning toward Quantum-resilient securityand helping to shape the future of agentic AI security.
Ready to take on the challenge? Apply now and be a part of our mission to secure the future! 🚀
Main responsibilities
As our in-house expert on Quantum cybersecurity, you will:
- Assess the impact of Quantum computing on the security of our infrastructures and applications
- Lead pilot projects to test and validate Quantum-Proof technologies
- Synthetize and share clear visibility on Sanofi’s preparedness for the Quantum revolution on Cyber scope
- Educate and advise internal stakeholders on risks, timelines, and mitigation strategies
- Develop a roadmap for transitioning to Quantum-Safe cryptography, aligned with industry standards (e.g., NIST PQC)
- Monitor global developments in quantum computing and post-Quantum cryptography
- Prioritize and prepare key digital services evolutions, working closely with service owners to ensure readiness with regards to costs, timelines, and upskilling forecasts
As an AI expert, you will:
- Design, build, and deploy a Cyber AI agent (leverage LLMs, diffusion models, multimodal systems among sanofi standards)
- Develop agentic architectures capable of reasoning, planning, and autonomous decision-making
- Integrate Cyber AI agents with APIs, tools, and real-world environments (e.g., web, cloud, IoT)
- Optimize model performance, memory, and inference pipelines
- Collaborate with product teams to bring intelligent agents to life
- Establish cybersecurity frameworks and monitoring controls for Cloud AI systems with a specific focus on autonomous AI Cloud agents
- Stay plugged into emerging technologies/industry trends and apply them into your activities
About you
If you are passionate about leading cybersecurity into the Quantum and AI era, diving deep into complex technical challenges, exploring cutting-edge technologies, collaborating across diverse teams and cultures, and crafting actionable, data-driven strategies then this is the opportunity you've been waiting for.
Technical qualifications:
- Strong understanding of Quantum computing principles
- Cryptographic algorithms in conjunction with NIST standardization efforts
- Public-key infrastructures and cryptographic protocols knowledge
- Knowledge of cybersecurity principles and practices
- Solid understanding of LLMs, prompt engineering, and fine-tuning techniques
- Experience with agent frameworks (e.g., AutoGPT, OpenAgents, CrewAI, ReAct)
- Experience with multimodal AI (text + image/audio/video)
- Familiarity with vector databases, embeddings, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
- Experience deploying AI in production (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, cloud platforms)
- Strong experience with PowerShell, Python and AI/ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, LangChain, Transformers)
- Proficiency in SQL for data querying and manipulation
- Familiarity with data crunching and data build processes
- Database Knowledge: Understanding of relational database systems, data structuring, and Object-Oriented Programming principles
- Strong experience in report creation and dashboard development in Power BI
- API and Library Experience: Familiarity with third-party libraries and APIs for data integration and management
- Experience with source code management tools such as GitHub
Non-Technical qualifications:
- Interpersonal Skills: Accurate, rigorous, autonomous, curious, fostering collaboration and promoting cybersecurity awareness across the organization
- Ability to work with diverse stakeholders in an international and fast paced environment
- Good analytical skills with a risk-based and problem-solving attitude
- Able to take a step back to see the big picture
- Strong ability to adjust and adopt strategy and priority changes
- Ability to respect commitments, deliver concrete results, handle multiple priorities, increase value delivery by continuously improving security processes and solutions
- Demonstrated verbal and written communication skills and effective listener
- Agile Methodologies: Familiarity with Agile approaches and techniques for project management and development
- Strong ability to make informed trade-offs and decisions in complex situations
Why Join Us?
- Opportunity to work on global, high-impact projects that directly contribute to Sanofi's digital transformation
- Collaborative and innovative work environment that encourages continuous learning and professional growth
- Chance to be at the forefront of cyber security in the pharmaceutical industry
- Competitive compensation and benefits package
- Global exposure and the potential to make a significant impact on healthcare through technology
Join us in our mission to protect and enable Sanofi's digital future. Your expertise will directly contribute to safeguarding breakthrough medicines and vaccines that improve people's lives around the world.
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