Independent Contractor Computer Science Jobs in Princeton, NJ

Description:

The Applied AI Scientist - Commercial builds and deploys machine learning and agentic AI systems that improve pricing, contracting, customer, and portfolio decisions across Amneal's generics and specialty businesses. This is a hands-on technical role accountable for production systems used daily by Commercial Operations, Pricing & Contracting, Marketing, and Market Access, with business outcomes baselined and validated by Finance. The role sits within the Enterprise AI Transformation function.

Essential Functions:

• Decision Support System
  • Develop predictive and optimization models with LLM as interface supporting customer bid and tender decisions, including win-probability modeling and price-volume trade-off analysis across the generics portfolio.
  • Build revenue and volume forecasting models at NDC and brand level accounting for competitive entrants, loss of exclusivity, price erosion curves, and customer concentration.
  • Analyze gross-to-net performance, chargeback, and rebate data to identify and quantify margin leakage, and implement recurring detection rather than one-time analysis.
  • Model customer and channel profitability across wholesalers, GPOs, retail, and specialty accounts to inform contracting strategy and account prioritization.
• Business Impact and Governance
  • Instrument deployed models with monitoring for drift, data quality, and business KPI degradation, and own remediation.
  • Establish benefit baselines with business owners, partner with Finance to validate realized impact, and document methodology to a standard supporting internal audit and SOX review where financially material. 
  • Present findings, recommendations, and model limitations to Commercial leadership.
• Growth & Portfolio Insights
  • Build analytics supporting specialty product launches, including patient and prescriber dynamics, payer coverage and access barriers, and field targeting.
  • Develop portfolio and business development models assessing new product opportunity: market size, expected entrant count, erosion trajectory, and risk-adjusted return.
• AI Solution Development
  • Build LLM-based and agentic applications for commercial workflows, including contract, tender, and market intelligence document extraction, supported by formal evaluation sets and regression testing.

Amneal is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete the application process or to participate in any part of the hiring process, please contact us at accommodations@amneal.com. Requests will be handled confidentially and in accordance with applicable laws. 

The Human Resources team partners with all aspects of the organization, driving success through the effective and innovative management of people for both current and future business needs.

Key roles that the Human Resources team performs:

Executive Role: Specialists in all aspects of people management. High-level input at strategic level into all key business decisions.

Audit Role: Ensures all areas of the organization are compliant with legal requirements AND best practice employment policies and procedures.

Facilitator Role: Close partnership to support, advise and extend the ability of all areas of the organization to meet their objectives through implementation of highly effective employment practices in areas such as Talent Acquisition, Learning and Development, Reward systems, Performance Management, Health and Wellbeing.

Consultancy Role: Provide expert advice to the organization and it's managers on any aspect of workforce management and employee relations and performance.

Service Role: Ensure the organization is fully aware of and is equipped to deal with developments impacting employment matters, such as changes in legislation, changes in the characteristics of the labor market.

Education:

• Bachelors Degree (BA/BS) Computer Science, Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, or related quantitative field (with equivalent demonstrated experience) - Required
• Master's Degree (MS/MA) Computer Science, Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, or related quantitative field - Preferred
• Ph. D. Computer Science, Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, or related quantitative field - Preferred

Experience:

• 5 years or more in Developing and deploying machine learning models in a production environment
• 5 years or more in Advanced proficiency with Python and SQL, including experience with PySpark or comparable distributed processing
• 5 years or more in Demonstrated application of forecasting, pricing, or econometric methods to commercial problems
• 5 years or more in Pharmaceutical or life sciences commercial analytics

Specialized Knowledge:

• Working knowledge of Agentic LLM application patterns including retrieval-augmented generation, structured extraction, and evaluation methodology (required)
• Track record of working directly with business stakeholders to define problems, agree success measures, and drive adoption (required)
• Generics market dynamics: gross-to-net accounting, chargebacks, rebates, GPO and wholesaler contracting, price erosion modeling (preferred)
• Specialty and branded commercial analytics: payer and market access data, prescriber-level targeting, patient services data (preferred)
• Third party pharmaceutical data assets - IQVIA, Symphony, or equivalent (preferred)
• Databricks (Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, MLflow) and cloud ML platforms such as Amazon Bedrock or SageMaker (preferred)
• Causal inference methods for observational data (preferred)

The salary range for this position ranges from $190,000 - $225,000 per year. In addition, Amneal offers a short-term incentive opportunity, such as a bonus or performance-based award with this position within the first 12 months. Amneal ranges reflect the Company's good faith estimate of what Amneal reasonably believes that it will pay for said position at the time of the posting. Individual compensation will ultimately be determined based on a variety of relevant factors, including but not limited to, qualifications, experience, geographic location and other relevant skills.