# Vice President, Global Head of AI for Drug Discovery (AIDD) at Genentech

- Company: Genentech
- What the company does: Genentech discovers, develops, manufactures and commercializes treatments for patients with serious and life-threatening medical conditions. Backed by North Carolina Biotechnology Center.
- Company website: https://gene.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: 2 Locations
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $364K to $450K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-23
- Apply by: 2026-12-07
- Apply: https://roche.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ROG-A2O-GENE/job/South-San-Francisco/Job-Posting-Title-Vice-President--VP--Global-Head-of-AI-for-Drug-Discovery--AIDD-_202610-127377-1?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/genentech-vice-president-global-head-of-ai-for-drug-discovery-aidd/

## About the role

The Vice President and Global Head of AI for Drug Discovery (AIDD) is responsible for leading a world-class artificial intelligence and machine learning department focused on designing therapeutics across the entire Roche/Genentech Research and Early Development (RED) portfolio. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Advanced degree (Ph.D. or equivalent) in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Chemistry, Machine Learning, Computational Biology, or a related quantitative field
- Familiarity with drug discovery - molecule design and therapeutic discovery
- Expertise in modern artificial intelligence, deep learning architectures, generative models, and ideally molecular modeling, and computational drug discovery
- Demonstrated experience with advancing state-of-the-art AI infrastructure
- Record of leading foundation model or large-scale engineering efforts, or of building research groups recognized in the external AI community


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