Johnson & Johnson

Senior Agentic Workflow Engineer, Biologics Discovery

Johnson & Johnson$109K — $174K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Master's or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (Bachelor's with relevant experience acceptable).
  • Minimum 2 years experience in scientific workflow orchestration or automation software, particularly in agentic workflows.
  • Hands-on experience with designing real-time data pipelines and integrating various scientific data outputs.
  • Experience with agentic AI and LLM-based systems in scientific workflows.
  • Familiarity with enterprise GenAI platforms, particularly in enhancing existing capabilities.

Responsibilities

  • Build and enhance agentic workflows for automating secondary analyses in biologics discovery.
  • Develop real-time pipeline connections between automation tools, data stores, models, and computing environments.
  • Collaborate with IT teams on implementing resilient APIs and workflow orchestration.
  • Integrate with Enterprise Generative AI team to adapt models for biologics discovery.
  • Ensure automated workflows produce high-quality, consistent, and AI-ready data.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance options.
  • Short- and long-term disability coverage and life insurance.
  • 401(k) retirement plan with company-sponsored pension options.
  • Generous vacation policy of up to 120 hours per year.
  • Additional floating holidays and sick leave up to 40 hours per year.
Full Job Description
Job Function: Data Analytics & Computational Sciences Job Sub Function: Data Engineering Job Category: Scientific/Technology All Job Posting Locations: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Madrid, Spain, Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America, Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America Job Description: Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.
Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.
Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is seeking a Senior Agentic Workflow Engineer to help build the agentic layer of our Biologics Discovery data engine. This is an opportunity to be one of the early builders of agentic AI workflows that automate secondary data processing, orchestrate analyses, and connect experimental outputs to models and decisions across the DMTL (design-make-test-learn) cycle. You will work at the intersection of scientific experimentation, data pipelines, AI systems, and lab automation, partnering closely with the broader AI/ML team to bring these systems to life. This position will be based at one of our office locations in either Spring House, PA (strongly preferred), Titusville, NJ, Raritan, NJ, or Cambridge, MA, USA; or at our office in Madrid, Spain. (No remote option.)
Please note that this role is available across multiple countries and may be posted under different requisition numbers to comply with local requirements. While you are welcome to apply to any or all of the postings, we recommend focusing on the specific country(s) that align with your preferred location(s):
USA - Requisition Number: R-095856 Spain - Requisition Number: R-096797 Why this role matters: Getting biologics data to flow reliably through our systems is a critical, often underestimated challenge, and there is significant opportunity to automate secondary analysis. This role brings hands-on agentic AI engineering to compress cycle time, reduce manual intervention, and improve reproducibility - building the scalable, connected, intelligent discovery workflows that today's hands-on processes still lack. Why This Role Is Unique This is a rare chance to help build how scientific and physical AI come together to steer design and execution in the lab - contributing hands-on to one of the first agentic discovery engines in a large pharma setting. As the team and its agentic capabilities grow, this role offers a clear path to increasing scope, technical ownership, and influence. Position Summary As a Senior Agentic Workflow Engineer, you will build and maintain agentic workflows and orchestration that support the scientific data analysis and secondary processing logic our team delivers. You will implement automation and AI pipelines connecting automation software, data stores, models, and compute, working closely with senior engineers to translate scientific priorities into working systems.
You will partner across Discovery, Data Science, In Silico Discovery (ISD), our Enterprise Generative AI team, and our data-infrastructure and lab-automation teams to help enable closed-loop feedback so that each experimental cycle improves downstream models and decisions. Key Responsibilities Agentic Orchestration & Integration
  • Build and continuously improve agentic workflows that automate secondary analysis for biologics discovery assays, replacing fragile manual and ad-hoc scripted steps.
  • Develop and maintain real-time or near-real-time pipelines connecting automation software, data stores, models, and compute environments.
  • Partner with IT and platform teams to implement resilient APIs, observability, versioning, and workflow orchestration end-to-end.
  • Work with our Enterprise Generative AI team to build on shared GenAI platforms, models, and agentic frameworks - extending them for biologics discovery rather than duplicating enterprise capabilities.
  • Partner with ontology and MLOps colleagues so automated workflows produce semantically consistent, reusable data and deploy reliably into production.
AI-Driven Scientific Learning
  • Contribute to workflows optimized for AI-driven learning, not just throughput, supporting closed-loop feedback across the design-make-test-learn (DMTL) cycle.
  • Collaborate with discovery scientists, AI/ML scientists, and data engineers so experimental outputs improve downstream property models and decision-making.
  • Help ensure data generated through agentic workflows is high-quality, traceable, interoperable, and AI-ready, with strong metadata, provenance, and lineage.
  • Identify and propose opportunities to apply agentic AI to compress cycle time and improve reproducibility.
Qualifications Required
  • Master's or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related computational field (or Bachelor's with substantial relevant experience).
  • At least 2 years experience building scientific workflow orchestration, or automation software, including experience in agentic workflows.
  • Hands-on experience designing real-time or near-real-time data pipelines and integrating complex and heterogeneous scientific data and instrument outputs.
  • Experience applying agentic AI and modern LLM-based agents (or comparable intelligent-automation systems) to scientific or laboratory workflows.
  • Experience working with enterprise or shared GenAI platforms and retrieval-augmented approaches (e.g., RAG or GraphRAG) rather than standing up capabilities from scratch.
  • Strong communication skills and comfort operating in ambiguity within a matrixed organization.
Preferred
  • Experience in drug discovery domains such as biologics, high-throughput experimentation, or imaging.
  • Exposure to lab automation, robotic systems, or cyber-physical systems for R&D.
  • Familiarity with MLOps/DevOps, workflow engines, and production-grade monitoring/observability.
  • Understanding of FAIR data, ontologies, semantic models, lineage/provenance, and AI-ready data standards.
This position will be based at one of our office locations in either Spring House, PA (strongly preferred), Titusville, NJ, Raritan, NJ, or Cambridge, MA, USA; or at our office in Madrid, Spain. (No remote option.) The anticipated base pay range for this position is $109,000 to $174,800. The Company maintains highly competitive, performance-based compensation programs. Under current guidelines, this position is eligible for an annual performance bonus in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan. The annual performance bonus is a cash bonus intended to provide an incentive to achieve annual targeted results by rewarding for individual and the corporation’s performance over a calendar/performance year. Bonuses are awarded at the Company’s discretion on an individual basis. Employees and/or eligible dependents may be eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance.

Employees may be eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)). Employees are eligible for the following time off benefits:
Vacation – up to 120 hours per calendar year
Sick time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays – up to 13 days per calendar year of Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
Additional information can be found through the link below. https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits The compensation and benefits information set forth in this posting applies to candidates hired in the United States. Candidates hired outside the United States will be eligible for compensation and benefits in accordance with their local market.
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