Novartis

Forward Deployed Engineer - AI Prototyping & Product Engineering

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Hyderābād, IndiaSenior / Staff+

Responsibilities

  • Partner with business and domain teams to translate complex challenges into high-value AI product opportunities.
  • Rapidly prototype, test, demonstrate, and refine solutions with users.
  • Build end-to-end AI applications using Python, TypeScript, React, foundation models, and reusable platform capabilities.
  • Use AI-assisted development tools and coding agents while maintaining quality, security, and maintainability.
  • Develop retrieval-augmented generation, document intelligence, agentic workflows, and automation for life sciences use cases.
  • Integrate AI products with enterprise APIs, data platforms, identity services, and authorized business systems.
  • Deploy secure and reliable applications on Amazon Web Services using Amazon Bedrock and appropriate cloud services.
  • Establish automated testing, evaluation, observability, continuous integration and deployment, and sustainable operational practices.
  • Embed privacy, security, traceability, human oversight, and appropriate controls throughout the product lifecycle.
  • Measure adoption and business outcomes and turn successful solutions into reusable capabilities.

Requirements

  • Approximately 8-12+ years of professional experience, including at least five years building and delivering production software.
  • Proven ownership of applications or products from problem discovery through deployment, adoption, and continuous improvement.
  • Strong Python expertise for building complete, production-ready applications beyond notebooks, prompts, or model endpoints.
  • Working-to-advanced experience with TypeScript, JavaScript, and React for building functional user interfaces.
  • Strong engineering fundamentals across APIs, data modeling, databases, authentication, testing, containers, and cloud deployment.
  • Hands-on experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery practices and maintainable production solutions.
  • Experience with generative AI solutions using foundation models, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic workflows, and tool integrations is desirable.
  • Experience delivering solutions in life sciences, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, or another regulated environment is desirable.
  • Skills such as data governance, data quality, data science, data visualization, deep learning, machine learning, NLP, statistical analysis, SQL, R, and time series analysis are listed as desired.

Benefits

  • Hybrid role based in Hyderabad, India.
  • Relocation support is provided.
  • Reasonable accommodation is available during recruitment and employment.

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AI ApplicationsForward Deployed
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About Novartis

10,000+ employees

Novartis is an innovative medicines company. Every day, working to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives so that patients, healthcare professionals and societies are empowered in the face of serious disease. Our medicines reach more than 250 million people worldwide. Find out more at https://www.novartis.com See our community guidelines: https://go.novartis.social/3Nboxki

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