Principal AI Engineer - Evinova

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Job Summary:

Evinova is a new health tech business part of the AstraZeneca Group, focused on transforming healthcare through AI and digital solutions. The Principal AI Engineer will design and implement advanced AI systems to enhance patient care and clinical trial processes, collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive innovation in the life sciences sector.

Responsibilities:

• Build and deploy sophisticated agentic AI solutions using state-of-the-art LLMs

• Develop novel approaches to agent memory, tool use, and multi-agent collaboration

• Create automated techniques for agent design, evaluation, and optimization

• Systematically discover and validate effective prompt engineering approaches for agentic systems

• Build specialized observability pipelines for continuous model and agent performance monitoring

• Partner with product, design, and clinical teams to translate AI capabilities into impactful healthcare solutions

• Mentor engineers and contribute to AI strategy across the organization

• Share expertise at conferences and through technical publications

• Contribute to open-source projects and help advance standard methodologies in healthcare AI

Qualifications:

Required:

• Ph.D. in a relevant field (such as mathematics, computer science, data science).

• 4 years of industry experience in applied machine learning, with a strong focus on deep learning, NLP, and generative AI.

• Extensive prior experience exploring and testing language model behavior, prompting and building products with language models.

• Expert knowledge of Python and advanced ML/LLM frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, Google ADK, Crewai, LangChain, LlamaIndex)

• Extensive experience with AWS services (e.g. SageMaker, Bedrock, MSK, EKS, ECS, OpenSearch).

• Deep understanding of agentic AI systems and frameworks (e.g. agentic design patterns, multi-agent systems, reinforcement learning).

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate sophisticated technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred:

• Demonstrated technical leadership experience, including successful delivery of large-scale AI projects.

• Experience developing complex agentic systems using LLMs.

• Experience with low-level languages used for implementing high-performance ML code (C/C , Rust, CUDA, etc.)

• Contributions to open-source AI projects or development of proprietary AI frameworks.

• Expertise in areas such as few-shot learning, meta-learning, explainable AI.

• Experience with AI ethics, responsible AI practices, and navigating regulatory landscapes for AI deployment in the life science industry.

Company:

Digital solutions need to do more to propel clinical development, elevate user experiences and accelerate better health outcomes. At Evinova, we’re doing something about it. We’re a healthtech business, with globally-scaled digital products that have proven benefits for sponsors, sites and patients. We've accelerated timelines, improved patient experiences, reduced costs, and minimised carbon footprints across hundreds of clinical studies. Evinova is a 300 person strong team offering digital solutions to pharma, biotech and CROs to support clinical research globally. Community Guidelines: http://bit.ly/3JIeErQ Founded in 2023, the company is headquartered in , with a team of 201-500 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage. Evinova has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.