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AI Research Lead, AI for Oncology Clinical Development

Spain - Barcelona💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-28

Core

Lead high-impact AI research and engineering to redesign oncology trials, influencing study design, dosing strategies, endpoints, and safety evaluations to accelerate medicine delivery.

Role type

Associate Director, AI Research Lead (Oncology Clinical Development)

Builds

Production ML models and evaluation frameworks for late-stage clinical development

Domain

Biopharmaceuticals / Oncology / Clinical Development

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

PhD in quantitative discipline, machine learning fundamentals, foundation model training/tuning, Bayesian inference, temporal modeling, multimodal integration, data-centric AI, model interpretability, software development

Preferred skills

cancer biology expertise, biological data experience (molecular, imaging, clinical text), drug development experience, agentic tools proficiency

Technologies

frontier coding agent frameworks, computing hardware

Responsibilities

Co-own AI strategy for early and late-phase oncology development; deliver complex AI programs meeting regulatory scrutiny; develop cutting-edge AI methods from framing to deployment; partner with clinical/regulatory teams to embed AI in study design; design rigorous model evaluation and validation frameworks; build external collaborations with academic groups and consortia; author publications in leading ML and clinical AI journals; mentor peers and foster a culture of pragmatic engineering

Seniority

Associate Director, strategic leadership with hands-on technical execution

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