Principal AI Engineer - Evinova
AstraZeneca2 days ago
Base Salary
$145k - $217k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and deploy sophisticated agentic AI solutions using state-of-the-art large language models.
- Develop agent memory, tool-use, multi-agent collaboration, and advanced agent architectures.
- Build NLP systems for retrieval, information extraction, structured generation, and graph reasoning.
- Create automated techniques for agent design, evaluation, optimization, and prompt engineering.
- Develop observability pipelines to monitor model and agent performance continuously.
- Collaborate with product, design, clinical, and ML teams to translate AI capabilities into healthcare solutions.
- Mentor engineers and contribute to organizational AI strategy.
- Share expertise through conferences, technical publications, and open-source projects.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, mathematics, or computer science.
- At least 4 years of applied machine learning experience focused on deep learning, NLP, and generative AI.
- Extensive experience exploring language-model behavior, prompt engineering, and building products with language models.
- Expert knowledge of Python and advanced ML/LLM frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, Google ADK, CrewAI, LangChain, and LlamaIndex.
- Extensive experience with AWS services including SageMaker, Bedrock, MSK, EKS, ECS, and OpenSearch.
- Deep understanding of agentic AI systems, agentic design patterns, multi-agent systems, and reinforcement learning.
- Strong communication skills for explaining complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Preferred qualifications include a relevant Ph.D., technical leadership on large-scale AI projects, complex LLM agent development, low-level ML programming with C/C++, Rust, or CUDA, open-source or proprietary AI framework contributions, expertise in few-shot learning, meta-learning, explainable AI, and responsible AI or regulatory practices.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with employees expected to work from the office three days per week.
- Short-term incentive bonus opportunity and eligibility for an equity-based long-term incentive program.
- Qualified retirement program including a 401(k) plan.
- Paid vacation, holidays, and leaves.
- Medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage subject to applicable plan terms.
- Equal employment opportunity, diversity and inclusion commitment, and disability accommodations.
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.