Lead AI Engineer: Scale AI for Health Solutions

Freelio; Ballerup; Remote; DKK 743,000 - 1,092,000; Full time

Job summary

Novo Nordisk is seeking a Lead AI Engineer in Ballerup, Denmark, to turn strategic AI use cases into reliable products. You will lead AI and software engineering efforts, shaping architectures, tooling, and governance across product teams.

The role requires 8+ years of AI/product experience, strong software skills, and the ability to operate in production environments with observability and cost considerations.

Qualifications

• Typically 8+ years of experience building AI or software products.
• Experience taking AI-centric applications from idea to production.
• Hands-on experience operating AI in production, with evaluation and cost-performance trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Take AI- and ML-centric use cases from discovery through production in cross-functional product teams.
• Engineer the product-specific intelligence layer—data and feature transformations, model integrations, knowledge grounding and services.
• Collaborate with product managers and domain experts to frame problems and priorities.

Skills

AI engineering

Product delivery

Machine learning

Software development

CI/CD

GitHub

Model integrations

Observability

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

MSc/PhD in engineering or CS

BSc with relevant experience

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Azure ML

Unity Catalog

MCP server design

Job description

Novo Nordisk is seeking a Lead AI Engineer in Ballerup, Denmark, to turn strategic AI use cases into reliable products. You will lead AI and software engineering efforts, shaping architectures, tooling, and governance across product teams.

The role requires 8+ years of AI/product experience, strong software skills, and the ability to operate in production environments with observability and cost considerations.