About the Program
Ready to push the limits of what's possible? Join Sanofi in one of our corporate functions and you can play a vital part in the performance of our entire business while helping to make an impact on millions around the world.
We are an innovative global healthcare company, driven by one purpose: we chase the miracles of science to improve people's lives. Our team, across some 100 countries, is dedicated to transforming the practice of medicine by working to turn the impossible into the possible. We provide potentially life changing treatment options and life saving vaccine protection to millions of people globally, while putting sustainability and social responsibility at the center of our ambitions.
As one of Canada's leading investors in life sciences, manufacturing and research and development, we focus on delivering new and better ways to address unmet medical needs. Our life changing and lifesaving products are grounded in science that Canadians can trust.
Sanofi has embarked on a vast and ambitious digital transformation program. A cornerstone of this roadmap is the acceleration of data adoption with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) tools. We strive to use AI and ML across the organization to accelerate functions like R&D, medical, manufacturing, and commercial performance. Our objective is to complement our business partners with AI to provide life improving and lifesaving drugs and vaccines to patients faster and more effectively.
About the Role
As a Computational Science Catalyst, you will adopt and extend advancements in the field of machine learning and generative AI to analyze and interpret data from pre clinical, clinical and real world datasets in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industry. You will inform and accelerate the clinical research process, optimise R&D strategies, and ultimately improve patient outcomes.
Main Responsibilities
- Prepare and curate data from sources such as EHRs, clinical trials, preclinical research, medical imaging, digital pathology, registries, or real world datasets.
- Build and evaluate ML/GenAI models to predict outcomes, identify risk factors, simulate scenarios, or support decision making across R&D and clinical development.
- Develop end to end analytics workflows - from exploratory analysis to experiment design to delivering production ready models with guidance from senior scientists and engineers.
- Support software development for data processing, model training, and visualization by writing clean, well structured, and well tested code.
- Create clear narratives through data storytelling, and visualisations to communicate insights to technical and non technical stakeholders.
- Collaborate across multidisciplinary teams (engineering, product, R&D) to translate business questions into computational approaches.
- Stay current with new methods in machine learning, generative AI, and computational science; share learnings with the broader team.
- Document and communicate results, and occasionally contribute to internal technical reports, internal/external presentations, or open source examples and draft publications.
About You Eligibility Requirements
- Must be legally authorised to work for Sanofi in Canada.
- Strong programming experience in Python (preferred), R, or a similar scientific programming language.
- Experience with machine learning and/or generative AI - coursework, research projects, or internships.
- Familiarity with common data workflows: cleaning, preprocessing, exploratory analysis, and model evaluation.
- Exposure to genomics, digital pathology, medical imaging and healthcare related data (EHR, clinical, or real world datasets) is a plus but not required.
- Basic familiarity with databases (SQL or NoSQL).
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain insights clearly.
- Demonstrated ability to work in teams and contribute to collaborative projects.
- Curiosity, problem solving mindset, and enthusiasm for applying AI to life sciences and global health.
Preferred Qualifications
- Exposure to topics such as supervised/unsupervised learning, deep learning, sequence models, GenAI/foundation models, graph ML, causal inference, optimisation, or time series forecasting.
- Experience building small applications or tools (e.g., pythonic libraries, dashboards, Streamlit apps, simple APIs).
- Familiarity with software development practices (version control, testing, agile teamwork).
- Interest in scaling ML systems using cloud platforms or modern data/ML tooling.
- Experience with data visualisation tools or ML Ops concepts is a bonus.
Why Choose Us?
- Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future focused team.
- Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it's through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.
- Enjoy a thoughtful, well crafted rewards package that r