Hybrid Principal AI Scientist, Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences

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About the role

  • Principal AI Scientist driving agentic AI and digital transformation in drug development at AstraZeneca. Collaborating across departments to implement AI solutions and enhance scientific workflows.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and implementation of agentic AI systems to facilitate scientific discovery and drive productivity.
  • Deliver agentic AI and generative AI based solutions for drug development tasks
  • Embed within and collaborate across scientific, digitisation, and IT teams to ensure that AI-driven solutions are both impactful and well-integrated into current workflows.
  • Represent the group internally and externally, sharing insights on how best to deploy agentic AI to unlock data-driven value within R&D.
  • Foster a scientific culture that connects lab innovation with advanced computational methods leading to a predict first mindset in early drug development
  • Collaborate internally & externally to pursue the development of foundation models for Chemistry, Manufacturing and Control (CMC)

Requirements

  • PhD in natural sciences
  • Several years of industrial experience in the field of drug design, pharmaceutical chemistry, or drug development
  • Expert knowledge in using generative AI applied to drug design and development (e.g. Graph ML and representation learning; agentic AI and orchestration; Scientific data integration)
  • Domain knowledge in computational chemistry, chemical informatics, and/or laboratory and data workflows preferred
  • Excellent communication skills, written and spoken; self-motivated team player
  • Experience in project leadership
  • Demonstrated System-level design and platform thinking
  • Demonstrated external reputation (e.g. via internationally recognised publication track record)

Benefits

  • Excellent Benefits

Job title

Principal AI Scientist, Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Postgraduate Degree

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