AI Engineer

AI Engineer

Do you have expertise in, and passion for AI? Would you like to apply your expertise to impact the Enterprise Reusable AI team in a company that follows the science and turns ideas into life changing medicines? Then AstraZeneca might be the one for you!



Role:

We are seeking an AI Engineer to accelerate AstraZeneca's ambition of putting AI at the heart of 80% of our key business processes by 2025. The ideal candidate will have broad industry experience, having worked on a wide range of different ML disciplines, and be capable of applying sophisticated mathematical and quantitative expertise to a range of impactful data science and software solutions. The role will work to use foundational and pioneering techniques to manipulate complex data structures in combination with business domain knowledge, and develop advanced and impactful AI that unlocks significant business and scientific insights for the company.

Working as part of a distributed team of AI Engineers and technical specialists, you will have the opportunity to develop and deploy AI algorithms throughout the delivery lifecycle, from ideation, PoC, MVP to cloud production. This will involve rapidly prototyping ideas in response to complex problem statements, formulating and working on scalable ML pipelines, and partnering with other AI scaling engineers to build reusable AI assets and services that are shared throughout the Enterprise.

The ideal candidate will be strong at both machine learning and software development, able to apply and tune innovative algorithms in response to problem statements and write production and industry leading code in partnership with others. They will ideally have experience working as part of agile development teams and be entrepreneurial, spotting and acting on opportunities to innovate and unlock value.



Key Accountabilities:

* Guide in a broad range of AI/ML fields and be able to use software to respond to and solve complex business and research problems; research and develop advanced AI models.
* Translate and formulate unstructured business problems into the appropriate data problem, model and analytical solutions.
* Contribute towards and help maintain cloud ML pipelines across a portfolio of projects.
* Perform AI research, including establishment of hypotheses that can be approached using computational methods and tools. Present or publish findings for conferences and in peer reviewed journals where appropriate.
* Build effective relationships with established range of partners to ensure utilization and value of information resources and services. Clearly and objectively communicate results, as well as their associated uncertainties and limitations within agreed frameworks.
* Develop, maintain and apply ongoing knowledge and awareness in trends, standard methodology and new developments in analytics and data science.



Candidate Knowledge, Skills and Experiences:

* Bsc/MSc/PhD degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science or related quantitative field.
* Experience in the modelling of complex datasets in applied business and/or scientific application domains, resulting in the development of innovative AI algorithms and applications.
* Advanced software development skills in at least two standard data science languages (Python is essential) and familiarity with database systems (e.g. SQL, NoSQL, graph)
* Understanding of algorithm design, optimization, scaling and applications.
* Hands-on experience in the Python ecosystem for data science, machine learning and AI (Scikit-learn, Pytorch, Tensorflow, Numpy, Pandas).
* Experience developing, deploying and maintaining APIs.
* Thorough understanding of classical mathematical and statistical concepts such as regression, inference, sampling, Bayesian methods, and optimization.
* Working knowledge of cloud environments and experience writing AI software as part of agile delivery teams.
* Proven expertise in software development standard methodologies and principles (software architecting, linting, CI/DI, unit tests, OOP, Git).
* Excellent written and verbal communication, business analysis, and consultancy skills.
* Strong bias for action and results.



WHY JOIN IT?

We're a network of entrepreneurial self-starters who contribute to something far bigger. There's a diversity of expertise in our Technology group that's unique to AstraZeneca - it allows us to dive deep into exploring new groundbreaking technology. We enable AstraZeneca to perform at its peak by delivering world-class technology and data solutions. Our work unlocks the potential of science.

Technology at AstraZeneca is a home for purposeful disruptors!



SO, WHAT'S NEXT?

Are you already imagining yourself joining our team? Good, because we'd love to hear from you! Click the link to apply and we'll be in touch as soon as we can.

Competitive salary & benefits on offer.



Open Date: 15/7/2022

Close Date: 14/8/2022



NOTE - Due to our summer vacation period in Sweden during July-August, the screening process may take a bit longer than usual. Thanks for your understanding and we will get back to you as soon as possible when we are back at work.