Currently tracking 10 active AI roles, down 57% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $65k–$358k (avg $176k).
Pfizer currently has 18 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Clinical Development Scientist, Director (Inflammation and Immunology) (2), AI Data Engineer--LLMs / Agentic Systems, AI/ML Engineer - Vaccine Research, Business Title Senior Scientist, Sterile Injectables Design, Director of AI Engineering – Vaccine R&D Operations Enablement. Most positions are in Engineering and Product.
Pfizer's active AI hiring is concentrated in: application (44%), agents (28%), post-training (11%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Pfizer is hiring AI talent in: United States (13 roles), China (2 roles), Spain (1 role), India (1 role).
Job postings at Pfizer most frequently reference: llm observability, model serving, rag, agent orchestration, fine tuning.
In the past 30 days, Pfizer has posted 24 new AI-related roles. That is a -27% change versus the prior 30 days (33 → 24).
Pfizer has 19 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles are focused on agents, accounting for 32% of the openings, followed by data roles at 26%. Engineering is the most frequent function, with 14 positions. The company is actively hiring for roles involving agent orchestration, model serving, and RAG. Over the last 30 days, Pfizer posted 45 new AI roles.
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| Director, Applied AI Director of Applied AI at Pfizer, responsible for translating AI strategy into production-grade solutions, platforms, and products. This role involves end-to-end technical ownership, leading engineering teams, and ensuring solutions are robust, scalable, and aligned with enterprise architecture, with a focus on business outcomes. Experience with LLMs, retrieval architectures, AI agents, observability, and governance is preferred. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Director of AI Engineering – Vaccine R&D Operations Enablement Director of AI Engineering role focused on applying AI automation and advanced analytics in regulated healthcare R&D operations. The role involves leading the definition and delivery of AI solutions for lab and office workflows, strengthening operational decision-making through predictive models, enabling regulated AI systems with governance, optimizing development planning, and engineering/scaling production-grade ML platforms. Requires expertise in predictive modeling, optimization, automation, generative AI, and ML system design, with strong programming skills in Python and ML frameworks, and experience scaling models in cloud/HPC environments. Collaboration across scientific, operational, quality, and business teams is critical. |
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| Sr. Director, US Commercial Product Lead, AIA Senior Director, US Commercial Product Lead, AIA at Pfizer. Owns the AI product roadmap for US Commercial, ensuring strategic alignment and delivery of AI-driven solutions. Leads a team of Product Owners, manages a budget, and collaborates with Commercial, Digital, and Analytics teams. Ensures adherence to data privacy, security, and ethical AI standards. Drives stakeholder engagement and change management for AI capabilities adoption. Accountable for delivering measurable business outcomes through AI. | Ship | 7 |
| VMG Access Technology & Operations Lead This role leads the advancement of AI and digital tools within Pfizer's VMG Access division, focusing on translating access strategy into scalable, technology-enabled solutions. Key responsibilities include driving AI and automation initiatives for pricing, dossiers, and access processes, enabling data-driven decision-making through dashboards and metrics, and ensuring compliance in a regulated environment. The role requires experience in digital transformation, delivering AI and automation solutions in regulated settings, and understanding pharmaceutical access operations. | Ship | 5 |
| Clinical Development Scientist, Director (Inflammation and Immunology) This Director-level role in Clinical Development for Pfizer's Inflammation and Immunology portfolio focuses on providing medical and scientific leadership for clinical trials. A key aspect of the role is to drive the integration of AI/ML and advanced analytics to transform clinical development workflows, optimize trial design and execution, and translate AI use cases into scalable solutions. The role requires experience applying AI/ML in clinical development and partnering with data science teams. | Ship | 5 |
| Clinical Development Scientist, Director (Inflammation and Immunology) This Director-level role at Pfizer focuses on providing medical and scientific leadership for clinical trials within the Inflammation and Immunology portfolio. A key aspect of the role is to drive the integration of AI-enabled and advanced analytics solutions to transform clinical development workflows, improve speed, efficiency, and decision-making. The candidate will lead the identification and implementation of AI/ML tools, partner with data science and digital teams, and champion adoption of innovative tools. Experience applying AI/ML in clinical development is required. | Ship | 5 |
| 辉瑞招聘-数字化与技术总监, 首席工程师-上海或北京或大连 This role is for a senior Software Engineer acting as a 'startup CTO' within business units (Commercial, Manufacturing, R&D) at Pfizer. The primary focus is on designing, building, and maintaining software systems that deliver business value, leveraging AI tools to enhance productivity and verifying AI-generated code. The role involves technical strategy, architectural direction, driving delivery of critical initiatives, developing technical leaders, shaping technology-driven business strategy, and establishing AI-augmented engineering workflows. It emphasizes problem discovery, rapid prototyping, and bridging the gap between engineering and business needs. | Ship | 5 |
| Software Engineer Level III – Forward Deployed（全栈开发工程师，经理） Software Engineer role focused on designing, building, and maintaining software systems that deliver business value within R&D at Pfizer. The role emphasizes leveraging AI tools to enhance productivity, critically evaluating AI-generated code, and integrating AI capabilities into solutions. This forward-deployed position operates like a 'startup CTO' within business units, bridging product building and problem-solving through rapid solution delivery and domain expertise, with a focus on full-stack development, business immersion, and stakeholder management. | Ship | 5 |
| Staff Software Engineer – Forward Deployed（全栈开发工程师，高级经理） Staff Software Engineer focused on designing, building, and maintaining software systems that deliver business value within R&D units. This role involves leveraging AI tools to enhance productivity, verifying AI-generated code, and operating like a 'startup CTO' to bridge the gap between product building and solving business problems through rapid solution delivery. The engineer will identify recurring patterns and hand off validated solutions to Platform Engineers. | Ship | 5 |
| Sr. AI Product Manager Senior AI Product Manager at Pfizer, focused on developing and launching AI/LLM-driven digital products using rapid prototyping and MVP-first approaches. The role emphasizes defining product vision, collaborating with cross-functional teams, managing lean roadmaps, and driving agile ceremonies to accelerate time-to-value in a fast-paced, experimental environment. | Ship | 5 |
| 辉瑞招聘-数字化与技术总监, 首席工程师-上海或北京或大连 This role is for a senior software engineer who will design, build, and maintain software systems, leveraging AI tools to enhance productivity and verifying AI-generated code. The role involves being embedded with business units (Commercial, Manufacturing, R&D) to act as a 'startup CTO', bridging product building and business problem-solving. Responsibilities include driving technical initiatives, developing technical leaders, shaping technology-driven business strategy, designing AI-augmented engineering workflows, establishing reliability and documentation standards, and driving process efficiency. The role emphasizes curiosity, outcome ownership, polymath orientation, precision communication, and systems thinking, with expert-level skills in business immersion, data integration, full-stack development, multi-audience communication, problem discovery, rapid prototyping, stakeholder management, and team collaboration. Practitioner-level skills include AI evaluation and verification. | Ship | 5 |
| Sr. Director, CFC Enablement Lead - Oncology This role is for a Senior Director at Pfizer in Oncology, focusing on enabling Commercial Customer-Facing Colleagues (CFCs) through strategic investments in tools, processes, systems, and AI-enabled capabilities. The role involves shaping how the Oncology business enables its field force and scaling capabilities for future engagement. It requires a blend of Oncology commercial experience and data/AI fluency to translate insights into action, influencing outcomes across a matrixed organization. The responsibilities include strategic thought partnership within the Oncology CEP Leadership Team and leading enterprise-level reporting, analytics, and CRM programs, ensuring effective deployment of new capabilities at scale. | Ship | 5 |
| Sr. Director, Commercial AI Product Owner This role leads an AI product for commercial acceleration, focusing on designing, developing, and scaling real-time messaging suggestions for end customers to improve engagement and drive business outcomes. The Sr. Director will own the product roadmap, backlog, and lead a cross-functional team, ensuring governance, release readiness, testing, monitoring, and adoption. The role requires understanding of AI/ML frameworks and experience leading commercial projects and teams. | Ship | 5 |
| Sr. Director, US Commercial Product Lead, AIA Senior Director, US Commercial Product Lead, AIA at Pfizer. Owns the AI product roadmap for US Commercial, ensuring strategic alignment and delivery of AI-driven solutions. Leads a team of Product Owners and manages a significant budget, with executive-level exposure and accountability for driving outcomes tied to CEO-sponsored priorities. Ensures adherence to data privacy, security, and ethical AI standards, and partners with Commercial, Digital, and Analytics teams for seamless integration. | Ship | 5 |