Associate Principal AI Engineer
Core
Build and evolve AI platforms, tools, and infrastructure to enable scalable Machine Learning across AstraZeneca's pharmaceutical value chain, supporting drug discovery, clinical trials, and patient safety.
Role type
Associate Principal AI Engineer (Platform & Infrastructure)
Builds
Production-ready AI platforms, ML development environments, and tooling for enterprise-scale data science.
Domain
Life Sciences / Biopharmaceuticals / Machine Learning Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Software engineering, automation, DevOps, Python, orchestration frameworks (Airflow/Argo/Kubeflow), Infrastructure as Code, distributed computing (clusters/GPUs), Agile methodologies, security standards.
Preferred skills
Experience transitioning exploratory data science to production, knowledge of security frameworks.
Technologies
Python, Airflow, Argo, Kubeflow, GPUs, distributed clusters, Infrastructure as Code.
Responsibilities
Partner with Data Scientists to build platforms supporting research; improve ML development environments; collaborate with security and privacy teams; optimize ML workloads for distributed systems; champion production-first mindset; contribute to automation and best practices.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with strategic influence