Senior AI Engineer - AI Reinvent & Engineering

Novo Nordisk; Ballerup Kommune; On-site; DKK 651,000 - 957,000; Full time

Job summary

Novo Nordisk is seeking a Senior AI Engineer for Enterprise AI in Ballerup, Denmark. You will translate strategic AI use cases into reliable products and work across Commercial and Manufacturing & Product Supply to move ideas to production.

You will join cross-functional teams, defining problem scope, building scalable AI platforms, and ensuring responsible AI practices in a regulated pharma environment. The role emphasizes collaboration, learning, and impact across healthcare.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience building AI or software products.
• Experience taking AI-centric applications from idea to production.
• Hands‑on experience operating AI in production, including evaluation and reliability.
• Solid foundation in statistical and ML concepts; practical AI patterns.
• Strong programming and software engineering skills with testing, APIs and CI/CD.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools and coding agents.
• Knowledge of model/tool integrations and observability approaches.
• MSc/PhD or equivalent in engineering/CS/data science/ML or related field; BSc with experience considered.

Responsibilities

• Take AI/ML use cases from discovery to production and continuous improvement.
• Engineer the product‑specific intelligence layer: data, features, decision logic and integrations.
• Partner with stakeholders to frame problems, define priorities and outcomes.
• Build reliable, scalable, secure, observable products with testing and CI/CD.
• Apply Responsible AI, data integrity, validation, traceability and auditability in pharma.
• Work with the AI Foundation team to reuse capabilities and turn lessons into reusable components.
• Own substantial delivery workstreams and mentor engineers.

Skills

AI products

Product delivery

AI in production

ML concepts

Software engineering

AI coding tools

AI interfaces

Education

MSc/PhD or equivalent

BSc with industry experience considered

Tools

GitHub

Job description

Your impact begins here

As Senior AI Engineer in Enterprise AI, you will turn strategic AI use cases into reliable products that create value across Novo. Working in cross‑functional product teams in areas such as Commercial and Manufacturing & Product Supply, you will decide what each problem really needs, from conventional software to retrieval‑grounded GenAI, and take it from prototype to production. Your work helps bring AI into everyday use for people living with serious chronic diseases.

Enterprise AI

Ballerup, Denmark

As Senior AI Engineer in Enterprise AI, you will turn strategic AI use cases into reliable products that create value across Novo. Working in cross‑functional product teams in areas such as Commercial and Manufacturing & Product Supply, you will decide what each problem really needs, from conventional software to retrieval‑grounded GenAI, and take it from prototype to production. Your work helps bring AI into everyday use for people living with serious chronic diseases.

What You’ll Bring

• 4+ years of experience building AI or software products. Demonstrated scope and capability matter more than tenure alone.
• Experience taking AI-centric applications from idea to production, and/or contributing to a product or platform team.
• Hands‑on experience operating AI in production, including evaluation, monitoring, reliability and cost‑performance trade‑offs.
• A sound foundation in statistical and machine‑learning concepts, with practical experience of modern AI application patterns.
• Strong programming and software engineering skills, including testing, documentation, APIs and CI/CD, preferably with GitHub.
• Experience using AI‑assisted development tools and coding agents effectively in software delivery.
• Functional knowledge of modern AI interfaces and standards, such as model and tool integrations, MCP and observability approaches.
• An MSc, PhD or similar graduate degree in engineering, computer science, data science, statistics, machine learning or a related field. Candidates with a BSc and industry experience will also be considered.

You combine technical expertise with strong product sense and are comfortable clarifying needs with stakeholders and communicating technical choices to different audiences. You can take ownership of end‑to‑end AI delivery, make technical and product trade‑offs, and ensure alignment throughout the process.

Beyond your technical expertise, we are looking for someone who is collaborative, curious and self‑driven, with strong listening skills and a genuine interest in staying current as the AI landscape evolves.

Useful, But Not Essential

• Familiarity with pharma‑specific AI domains, such as clinical NLP, drug discovery AI, regulatory automation or medical knowledge graphs.
• Experience with Databricks, Snowflake, Azure ML and Unity Catalog in an enterprise data and AI platform context.
• Knowledge of MCP (Model Context Protocol) server design and enterprise AI platform architecture patterns.

What You’ll Do

• Take AI‑ and ML‑centric use cases from discovery and rapid prototyping through production and continuous improvement.
• Engineer the product‑specific intelligence layer: data and feature transformations, decision logic, model and tool integrations, knowledge grounding, user‑facing services, human‑oversight controls and fallback behaviour.
• Partner with stakeholders and product managers to frame problems, agree priorities and define meaningful product outcomes.
• Build reliable, scalable, secure and observable products with appropriate testing, evaluation, documentation and CI/CD, using AI‑assisted development tools and coding agents responsibly.
• Apply Responsible AI, data integrity, validation, traceability and auditability requirements in a regulated pharmaceutical environment.
• Work with the AI Foundation team to reuse shared capabilities and turn lessons from individual deliveries into reusable components and engineering patterns.
• Own substantial delivery workstreams, shape technical and product choices, and support less experienced engineers.

You will be hired into AI Reinvent & Engineering, while much of your work happens in cross‑functional product teams. A central part of the role is deciding whether a problem calls for conventional software or rules, optimisation, a predictive model, retrieval‑grounded GenAI or a carefully bounded agentic workflow.

Who You’ll Work With

You will join the AI Engineering Solutions team within AI Reinvent & Engineering, part of Enterprise AI in Enterprise IT, based in Ballerup, Denmark. The team brings together engineers with different strengths across statistics, machine learning, AI and software engineering.

Day to day, you will often work in product teams in Commercial, Manufacturing & Product Supply and other business areas, alongside product managers, domain experts, data scientists and engineers. Staying close to the problems keeps the work relevant, while links to the AI Foundation team keep engineering practices shared. We are cloud-native, working across Azure and AWS, Databricks, Snowflake, foundation-model APIs and modern AI application frameworks, and we value technical rigour, direct feedback and continuous learning.

What You Can Expect Here

You will work in a multinational environment where your expertise is valued and trusted. You will keep growing through continuous learning and hands‑on experience across business areas, with room to shape technical and product choices and to support colleagues as they develop.

Salary: For this role, the Annual Base Salary ranges from 651,000.00 to 956,900.00DKK, corresponding to the level of the position. The placement within the salary range will be assessed during the recruitment process based on the candidate’s skills, competencies, knowledge and relevant experience.

Incentives and Benefits: The salary package may include short‑term and/or long‑term incentives as well as other employee benefits based on position level, location, functional area and relevant market benchmarks. Learn more about our Reward Philosophy here.

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.

At Novo Nordisk, we're not chasing quick fixes – we're creating lasting change for long‑term health. For over 100 years, we've been driven by a single purpose: to defeat serious chronic diseases and help millions of people live healthier lives. This dedication fuels our constant curiosity and inspires us to push the boundaries of what's possible in healthcare. We embrace diverse perspectives, seek out bold ideas, and build partnerships rooted in shared purpose. Together, we're making healthcare more accessible, treating and preventing diseases, and pioneering solutions that create change spanning generations. When you join us, you become part of something bigger – a legacy of impact that reaches far beyond today.

For further information, please contact Lead AI Engineer Tankred Ott ([e-mail]).