Lead AI Platform Engineer for Discovery (Barcelona)

AstraZeneca; España; Presencial; EUR 90.000 - 130.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

AstraZeneca in Barcelona, Spain, is seeking an engineering leader to drive AI platform and product development in an in-office role. You will design, Harden and run secure, scalable AI systems across cloud and on-premises environments, partnering with researchers, scientists and platform teams to turn ideas into reliable capabilities.

You will mentor engineers, establish SDLC standards, and implement MLOps practices to accelerate discovery while ensuring reproducibility, security and regulatory

Formación

• Master's degree or PhD in a relevant field.
• Track record of implementing software engineering best practices for multiple use cases.
• Advanced Python proficiency with PyTorch, NumPy, Pandas.
• Experience with distributed training of machine learning models.
• Experience deploying AI/ML systems in production.
• Experience with GitHub, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, and MLOps practices.
• Experience deploying cloud-native apps on AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Excellent problem-solving and technical communication skills.

Responsabilidades

• Provide technical leadership for AI platform and product engineering, with focus on design, reproducibility, performance and maintainability.
• Engineer research prototypes into secure, scalable and supportable products and reusable platform capabilities for Discovery.
• Develop and optimize machine-learning training and inference workflows across cloud and on-premises infrastructure.
• Own and promote software engineering standards, documentation, testing, code review and reusable delivery patterns.
• Use CI/CD, DevOps, GitOps and MLOps automation to improve delivery speed, reliability and operational efficiency.
• Partner with AI researchers, scientists, platform teams and external collaborators to translate scientific needs into effective technical solutions.
• Mentor engineers, contribute to architecture decisions, and promote responsible, compliant and reproducible AI engineering.

Conocimientos

Python

PyTorch

ML Pipelines

Distributed training

Cloud & on‑prem

Technical communication

Collaboration

Educación

Master's degree or PhD

Herramientas

GitHub

GitHub Actions

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Descripción del empleo

AstraZeneca in Barcelona, Spain, is seeking an engineering leader to drive AI platform and product development in an in-office role. You will design, Harden and run secure, scalable AI systems across cloud and on-premises environments, partnering with researchers, scientists and platform teams to turn ideas into reliable capabilities.

You will mentor engineers, establish SDLC standards, and implement MLOps practices to accelerate discovery while ensuring reproducibility, security and regulatory