AI Product Engineer – Connected Insights

About the team

The Connected Insights digital product delivery service is an internal high-profile bespoke data & AI service built in collaboration with our in-house competitive intelligence professionals. It is transforming how competitive intelligence is created disseminated and consumed across AstraZeneca into a rich digital interconnected and on-demand experience.

Using data pipelines knowledge graphs interactive visualisations and AI we seek to integrate key external and internal data sources generate complex interactive information and transform how our teams of competitive intelligence professionals create and share insights. We value creating an excellent user experience trusted data and effective engineering practises.

Introduction to role

Are you ready to disrupt an industry and change lives We are seeking a versatile AI Engineer with a strong product mindset to join our Connected Insights this dynamic role you will actively work on cutting-edge AI projects while leading the development and deployment of AI-driven products delivering impactful business and competitive intelligence insights. Collaborate with stakeholders and Product Leads to understand requirements develop customized AI solutions and partner with external AI companies where required. Are you prepared to make the impossible possible

Accountabilities

• Agentic AI Development: Build and test agentic AI systems and tools directly addressing competitive analysis challenges for strategy teams.
• Process Automation: Automate complex data analysis workflows to enhance efficiency and accuracy across projects.
• Innovation and Partnerships: Introduce advanced AI technologies and lead collaborations with external AI companies to integrate innovative solutions.
• Product Leadership: Oversee the lifecycle of AI-driven products ensuring alignment with stakeholder expectations and driving successful deployment.
• Technical and Design Collaboration: Partner with the Software Engineering Lead to develop our approach to AI-led software development for improved speed and quality and work closely with the UX Team to transform product design with AI enhancing user experience.
• Agile Framework Collaboration: Work within an agile framework and in cross-functional teams to align AI solutions with business goals.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Engage internal stakeholders and external partners for the successful delivery of AI solutions.
• Model Optimization: Continuously monitor and optimize AI models to improve accuracy and efficiency ensuring they are scalable reliable and well-maintained.
• Ethical Standards Compliance: Ensure AI models adhere to ethical standards privacy regulations and fairness guidelines.

Essential Skills/Experience

- Relevant graduate degree: Computer Science Engineering or AI.
- Minimum of 5 years of applied experience in software engineering data science machine learning or relevant field.
- Demonstrate a strong product mindset by prioritising outcomes balancing technical innovation with business value and driving solutions that are both impactful and market-ready.
- Strong experience working in an Agile team with knowledge or experience of working in product focused delivery.
- Hands-on experience building Agentic AI systems and deploying them to production.
- Experience building and delivering software using the Python programming language exceptional ability in other programming languages will be considered.
- AI framework experience such as LangChain etc.
- Experience in RAG vector databases.
- An understanding of LLMs / Foundation models technologies.
- Demonstratable experience working with AWS or a similar cloud environment.
- Experience working with container-based application deployments.
- Experience in software development best practices.

When we put unexpected teams in the same room we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing -person working gives us the platform we need to connect work at pace and challenge perceptions. Thats why we work on average a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesnt mean were not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

At AstraZeneca youll be part of a team with the backing and investment to win. Our work has a direct impact on patients transforming our ability to develop life-changing medicines. We empower the business to perform at its peak by combining cutting-edge science with leading digital technology platforms and data. With a passion for impacting lives through data analytics AI machine learning and more youll be at the forefront of digital healthcare. Shape your own path with support all the way while contributing to something far bigger.

Ready to take on this exciting challenge Apply now and be part of our journey!

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AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds with as wide a range of perspectives as possible and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment) as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.