Clinical Trial Division (CTD) AI Lead (Remote - EST)

Clinical Trial Division (CTD) AI Lead (Remote - EST)

We are looking to hire a candidate with the skills sets mentioned and experience for one of our clients within the pharmaceutical Industry. This is a 6+ month contracting role, with potential for extension. This is a Remote role, with a preference for candidates in the EST zone to facilitate coordination with teams across EST, PST, and EU time zones.

Role Summary:

You are the AI forward-deployed engineer for Clinical Trial Division (CTD) operations within Thermo Fisher's Pharma Services Group. You identify, validate, build, and ship AI capabilities that improve day-to-day clinical trial services workflows - then drive adoption so they become part of how teams operate. You deliver hands-on using AWS, Dataiku, Databricks, and OpenAI, and you drive ChatGPT adoption across CTD roles.

You balance short-term value delivery with long-term infrastructure maturity. As enterprise data/AI foundations and patterns evolve (for example: MCP server patterns, A2A approaches, reusable agent frameworks, governance, scalable integrations), you create a vision and execution plan that bridges today's constraints to a scalable target state.

Key Responsibilities:

• Map CTD AI opportunities: Identify use cases across CTD workflows (knowledge retrieval, document acceleration, exception management support, operational insights, coordination/handoff support, client-response acceleration).
• Build and ship: Deliver POCs/MVPs using AWS/Databricks/Dataiku/OpenAI, integrating with operational systems, data, and document repositories.
• Roadmap and operating cadence: Own a roadmap and drive an execution cadence (demos, stakeholder reviews, adoption checkpoints, impact tracking).
• Balance quick wins vs foundations: Deliver immediate workflow improvements while shaping requirements and reusable patterns that will scale as IT infrastructure matures (integration patterns, evaluation/monitoring, orchestration approaches, governance-aligned design).
• Vision and transition plan: Define the CTD AI north star and a staged path from POCs to reusable capabilities to scaled delivery.
• Adoption-first delivery: Convert solutions into practical assets - templates, prompt kits, role-based guides, and training - so adoption is built in.
• Risk/controls awareness: Incorporate appropriate controls for privacy/security and traceability expectations where needed.
• Stay current and apply responsibly: Keep up with the rapidly advancing AI landscape and selectively introduce relevant techniques/tooling that are safe, measurable, and adoptable in CTD operations.

Required Skills/Qualifications:

• Strong understanding of clinical trial services/operations (or adjacent clinical operations workflows) and the ability to translate CTD work into deployable AI solutions.
• Primary Stack: AWS, Dataiku, Databricks, and OpenAI.
• Hands-on capability building production-minded prototypes (Python/SQL, AWS, Databricks and/or Dataiku, and OpenAI).
• Applied GenAI experience (RAG, evaluation, guardrails, workflow integration, adoption enablement).
• Strong ChatGPT adoption embedded in CTD routines.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills and ability to influence as a senior IC.
• Demonstrated ability to balance immediate business outcomes with long-term scalable capability building.
• Experience working with privacy/security constraints and controlled documents in clinical contexts.
• Experience supporting globally distributed operational teams.
• A CTD AI opportunity map and roadmap adopted by CTD stakeholders.

Other Job Details:

• Job Type: C2C or W2.
• Duration: 6 12 months with high possibility of extension.
• Location: Remote (preferred candidates in the EST zone to facilitate coordination with teams across EST, PST, and EU time zones).
• Pay Rate: $70/hr. on C2C. or $62/hr. on W2.
• Interviews: Video interviews.
• Docs required: ID proof will be required.