AI Engineer

Verisian; London; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in clinical research is seeking an AI Engineer to build innovative software for analyzing clinical trials. This role involves leading the development of a robust AI stack utilizing LLMs and RAG systems, contributing to projects that impact global health outcomes.

Benefits

Employee Stock Options Plan

Asynchronous work environment

Impactful work on global health

Collaborative world-class team

Qualifications

• Experience with LLMs and production deployment.
• Experience with RAG systems (Pinecone or similar).
• Extensive Python experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead the analysis and design of the AI stack.
• Build the Verisian Agentic AI Scientific Computing Environment.
• Ensure production-ready deployment of AI models.

Skills

Python

Pandas

Graph Theory

Communication Skills

Programming Languages

Job description

About Us

At Verisian, we envision a world where groundbreaking medical therapies are judged using all available evidence and the best possible software, where the data and science are transparent to companies and regulators alike to make the best possible decisions faster and with greater accuracy and confidence.

We're developing innovations for clinical research and public health authorities. While initiatives exist that have brought standardization for clinical trial data structure, lengthy analysis and submission cycles remain, while increasing trial complexity and numbers present substantial challenges in decision-making, ultimately slowing the speed of medical progress.

The products we build empower the pharmaceutical sector and regulators to analyze and perform quality control studies faster, with fewer resources, and at lower cost, increasing the rate at which innovation enters the market to provide improved and safer therapies for devastating diseases.

By joining us, you will commit yourself to building software that enables the analysis and faithful assessment of clinical trial outcomes, to make the world a healthier place for everyone.

Culture

At Verisian, our mission is to build the future of drug development. To help us succeed, we're creating a unique employee culture. We're fanatically customer obsessed, crafting world-class products that customers love with every interaction. We take extreme ownership and accountability of our work, seeing whatever we do through to completion. We communicate candidly and directly with each other, even when it's uncomfortable. We're innately curious, open to alternative perspectives, and invest passionately in our own continuous growth.

Role Description

As an AI Engineer, you will join our world-class engineering team in building the Verisian Platform. You will use the latest in AI, LLMs, and RAG systems and combine them with code and data traceability, the core of Verisian's technology, to create the most reliable and accurate code generator to analyze clinical trials.

You will be expected to lead the analysis, design, engineering of the AI stack, including its RAG system, selection and fine-tuning of models, as well as its production-ready deployment. As part of our core team, you will join us in designing, prioritising, building and testing new functionality, troubleshooting customer issues, finding root causes, and developing improvements to ensure maximal user impact and performance.

Our RAG system is based on Python and Pinecone and we have deployed a set of open source models. We interact with our code and data traceability graph through our main application stack which is currently based on Next.js and deployed via Docker/Kubernetes in the cloud. Our code analysis pipelines are based on Antlr4 and Java. Git is where our code lives, and Github Actions is how it gets out into the world.

Your role will be to build the Verisian Agentic AI Scientific Computing Environment (SCE). It will resolve issues identified in our Validator, modify existing code, and create analyses from pre-existing templates and eventually from scratch. It does so by checking out code using git, modifying it using our full study traceability insights (specifications, metadata, data, and code traceability), feeding its results back into the Verisian Platform, and ultimately reaching its goals through iterations guided by expert-reviews using the Verisian Validator.

The Agentic AI SCE will increase the speed with which clinical trials are analyzed and become a crucial part of the Verisian Builder. In combination with the Verisian Validator that extracts full dataset and column-level data lineages and dependencies from existing clinical trials, the Verisian Platform will allow for the efficient creation, validation, understanding, modification, communication of clinical trials and enable code and data reuse. Clinical trials will be analyzed and validated faster, better, and at lower costs to the benefit of all of humanity.

Requirements

• Experience with and foundational understanding of LLMs (especially open source models), including production deployment
• Experience with and foundational understanding of non-LLM AI, including production deployment
• Experience with RAG systems (Pinecone or similar)
• Strong interest in programming languages, parsing algorithms, interpreters, and compilers
• Extensive experience in Python, Pandas, and at least one other programming language
• Experience with and clear understanding of graph theory and algorithm implementation
• Highly motivated and highly independent, able to create and manage a code base
• We & mission mindset
• Iteration mindset
• Strong focus on building as a team
• Strong communication skills
• "If it's not code and documented, it doesn't exist"-mindset
  
  
  

Bonus points

• Experience with code generation
  
  
  

Benefits

• What you build impacts the lives of people around the world
• Highly collaborative, ambitious and world-class team
• Employee Stock Options Plan
• All remote, asynchronous work environment
• Additional benefits depending on country of residence