Madrigal Pharmaceuticals

Madrigal Pharmaceuticals

Senior Director, Agentic AI and Automation

PA - Conshohocken - Office, USA · Director · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$256k-$312kDetected 27 days ago
PythonMATLABSQLDatabricksVector DatabasesAWSGCPAzureMachine LearningPyTorchData ScienceNLPLLMsRAGAgentic AIMLOpsComplianceOKRsCompensationSystems EngineeringHIPAAFDA RegulatoryResearchLeadership

About the role

  • Madrigal is a biopharmaceutical company focused on delivering novel therapeutics for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH), a liver disease with high unmet medical need.
  • Rezdiffra is the first and only medication approved by both the FDA and European Commission for the treatment of MASH with moderate to advanced fibrosis (F2 to F3).
  • An ongoing Phase 3 outcomes trial is evaluating Rezdiffra for the treatment of compensated MASH cirrhosis (F4c).

Responsibilities

  • Partner with cross‑functional executives to prioritise high‑value automations across the business.
  • Partner with executive stakeholders to prioritise high‑value automations (clinical, commercial, PV, manufacturing).
  • Design secure agent‑to‑agent (A2A) communication with shared memory, credential vaults, RBAC.
  • Implement enterprise MCP engine and Agent Protocol standards enabling human-agent-bot collaboration.
  • Build event‑driven, low‑code pipelines (n8n, Dify, Glean) to trigger agentic RPA tasks in real time.
  • Implement observability and governance (Arcade.dev, AgentOps, Langfuse).
  • Lead a multi‑disciplinary squad of AI automation architects, prompt engineers, and product managers.
  • Drive iterative product delivery using agile OKRs, rapid POCs, and continual KPI evaluation.
  • Collaborate with open‑source communities, cloud partners, and leading vendors.

Requirements

  • 15+ years leading AI/ML or intelligent‑automation initiatives
  • 10+ years hands‑on with Python, SQL, R, MATLAB, PyTorch, Keras, Git.
  • 8+ years implementing scalable AI/ML on platforms like Databricks or Dataiku, with strong AI/MLOps.
  • Deep knowledge of cloud data platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and compliance (GxP, HIPAA, GDPR).
  • Applies deep expertise in ML, generative AI, and systems engineering to solve complex, cross‑domain challenges.
  • Typical Degree & Years of Experience
  • 12+ years architecting ML/deep‑learning solutions incl. LLMs (GPT‑4, BERT, LLaMA, Dolly) and RAG pipelines.
  • 8+ years building web apps (Dash, Streamlit, Shiny) and advanced data products.
  • Strong theoretical foundation in ML/AI with contributions to papers and presentations.
  • Exceptional written & verbal communication skills translating complex research to executives.
  • Leadership/Autonomy
  • Leads multi‑disciplinary squads and influences enterprise‑wide AI & automation strategy.
  • Operates with significant autonomy to set technical direction and allocate resources.
  • Problem Solving

Nice to have

  • Advanced degree (Ph.D. preferred) in AI, Data Science, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Engineering, Physics, or related field.
  • Ph.D. in a quantitative field plus 15+ years in AI/ML and intelligent automation.

Compensation

  • Madrigal's Total Rewards strategy is based on a biotech industry peer group comparator and is inclusive of base pay, bonus and equity.

Benefits

  • Strategic Leadership & Hyperautomation Vision
  • 12+ years architecting ML/deep‑learning solutions incl.

Company info

  • Madrigal's medication, Rezdiffra (resmetirom), is a once-daily, oral, liver-directed THR-β agonist designed to target key underlying causes of MASH.

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