AI Automation/Application Engineer

Talentmark; Welwyn Garden City; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 111,000; Part time

Job summary

Talentmark are recruiting for an AI Automation/Application Engineer to join a company in the pharmaceutical industry on a contract basis for 12 months. This role is hybrid, with the office in Welwyn Garden City.

You will build AI skills and agents, develop dashboards in R Shiny (or Shiny for Python), and automate repetitive steps across business tools. You will also create data pipelines and write tested, documented code for regulated use cases with QA and Compliance.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems or equivalent.
• Experience building data applications, automations or internal tools for business teams.
• Strong Python for scripting and data processing; solid R for Shiny apps.
• Good SQL and REST API integration experience.
• Experience with LLM APIs or AI tooling and prompt design.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain AI skills and agents to automate repetitive tasks.
• Develop dashboards in R Shiny (or Python Shiny) with AI assistants.
• Automate manual steps across tools and data sources.
• Create data pipelines to pull and clean data for insights.
• Write tested, documented code and provide validation for regulated use cases.
• Run user testing, train teams, gather feedback and maintain tools.

Skills

Python scripting

R Shiny

SQL

REST APIs

LLM / AI tools

Git

Non-technical stakeholder friendly

Education

CS/Engineering/Data Science degree or equivalent

Tools

Shiny

Python

Snowflake

Docker

Git

REST APIs

Job description

Talentmark are recruiting for an AI Automation/Application Engineerto join a company in the pharmaceutical industry on a contract basis for 12 months. This role is hybrid, with the office in Welwyn Garden City.

Company

Our client is one of the world's premier innovative biopharmaceutical companies, discovering, developing and providing over 160 different medicines, vaccines and consumer healthcare products to help improve the lives of millions of people in the UK and around the world every year.

Salary

£377.54 - £453.04 per day (PAYE) or £500 - £600 per day (Umbrella/Ltd). This contract can be outside of IR35. Rates are dependent upon experience.

AI Automation EngineerRole

• Build and maintain AI skills and agents that take on repetitive work, such as self-assembling reports and presentations, document checks and request-to-system workflows
• Develop agentified dashboards in R Shiny (or Shiny for Python) with built-in AI assistants that explain trends, flag issues and answer questions
• Automate manual, repetitive steps across business tools, documents and spreadsheets, including supervised automations where people review and approve outputs before use
• Build scheduled data pipelines and integrations that pull, clean, reconcile and combine data from business systems to create reliable insights
• Write tested, version-controlled code and clear documentation, and produce validation evidence for regulated use cases with the Senior AI Solutions Engineer and Quality & Compliance
• Run user testing, train business teams, gather feedback and iterate quickly, tracking usage and time saved. Maintain live tools and keep them working as source systems change.

Your Background

• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Substantial experience building data applications, automations or internal tools used by business teams
• Strong Python for scripting, automation and data processing (pandas, requests, testing), plus solid R with experience building and deploying Shiny applications
• Good SQL and experience integrating systems through REST APIs
• Practical experience building with LLM APIs or AI coding tools, including prompt design and structured outputs
• Comfortable with Git and working iteratively with non-technical users, translating their needs into working tools.
• Nice to have: Snowflake or another cloud data warehouse, AI agents and agent frameworks (e.g. LangGraph), Docker and AWS deployment, pharmaceutical R&D or GxP experience, and a GitHub profile or portfolio.

Company

Our client is one of the world's premier innovative biopharmaceutical companies, discovering, developing and providing over 160 different medicines, vaccines and consumer healthcare products to help improve the lives of millions of people in the UK and around the world every year.

It is essential that applicants hold entitlement to work in the UK.

Please note:This role may be subject to a satisfactory basic Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check