【AstraZeneca】【CET】Agentic AI Lead,Cutomer Experience & IT
AstraZeneca20 hours ago
Ōsaka, Japan or Tokyo, JapanStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design, build, evaluate, and operate production GenAI and agentic AI systems for commercial, medical, and field organizations.
- Own the reliability, cost, security, and ongoing improvement of AI platform assets and business-critical systems.
- Implement agent architectures, tool calling, MCP, memory and context management, guardrails, RAG, structured-data retrieval, and model-selection strategies.
- Establish evaluation sets, perform error analysis, and drive iteration through regression testing, tracing, and prompt/model versioning.
- Operate AI systems using observability, cost and latency optimization, infrastructure-as-code, and secure-by-design practices.
- Provide technical direction and coaching to AI engineers while working directly with business owners and external delivery partners.
- Explain technical trade-offs and uncertainty clearly to non-specialists and collaborate with global teams.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience building and running software in production, including Python and AWS or equivalent cloud experience.
- At least 2 years of hands-on experience shipping LLM-based or agentic applications to real users.
- Demonstrated evaluation-driven engineering practice involving evaluation sets, error analysis, and project iteration.
- Daily use of agentic coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or equivalent, including reviewing and testing generated output.
- Experience leading a technical workstream or mentoring engineers; formal people-management experience is not required.
- Experience with an agent framework such as Bedrock AgentCore, LangGraph, OpenAI Agents SDK, or equivalent.
- Knowledge of full-stack application design, data modeling, testing strategy, dependency scanning, secrets hygiene, and secure-by-design development.
- Production AWS experience with Lambda, ECS/Fargate, API Gateway, Bedrock, and IAM.
- Business-level Japanese and English; non-native Japanese speakers must have JLPT N2 or higher, with N1 preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related quantitative discipline, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred qualifications include production experience with supervised or deep-learning models, regulated-industry experience, React or Next.js, AWS certification, advanced degrees, LLM coursework, knowledge graphs, Japanese document-processing pipelines, evaluation tools, and Azure OpenAI or multi-provider gateway experience.
Benefits
- The role is a hands-on position with approximately 80% coding and 20% coordination.
- AstraZeneca is committed to diversity, equality of opportunity, and an inclusive workplace.
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About AstraZeneca
AstraZeneca is a global biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, manufactures, and commercializes prescription medicines for patients and healthcare systems. Its portfolio spans oncology, cardiovascular, renal and metabolism, respiratory and immunology, and rare diseases (expanded by the 2021 acquisition of Alexion). Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Cambridge, UK, it is a public company listed on the London Stock Exchange and Nasdaq, generating revenue primarily from drug sales and partnerships.