R Automation & AI Developer for Clinical Trials

Cytel Inc; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Cytel Inc. is seeking an experienced R/AI Developer embedded with a pharmaceutical client to drive automation and advanced data analysis for clinical studies.

You will collaborate with statisticians, data scientists and AI leads to deliver practical workflow improvements and reusable tools. You will build proof-of-concept tools using R/Shiny, validate results, and document processes to maintain regulatory alignment.

Qualifications

• Strong R programmer with experience in clinical data contexts.
• Experience building automation tools, R packages, R Shiny apps and dashboards.
• Familiarity with CDISC concepts and clinical trial data.
• Understanding regulated delivery: validation, audit trails, traceability, documentation, testing.
• Experience using LLMs for coding, summarization, extraction, documentation or workflow automation.

Responsibilities

• Interpret user requirements and identify workflow improvements.
• Define scope for requests.
• Build proof-of-concept tools.
• Utilize LLM-supported coding with R/Shiny.
• Create testing and documentation.
• Ensure prototypes align with regulated clinical development expectations.
• Present to technical and non-technical audiences.

Skills

R programming

Clinical data & CDISC

Automation tools development

R Shiny dashboards

Git & code review

CI/CD concepts

LLMs for coding/automation

Tools

R Shiny

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Cytel Inc. is seeking an experienced R/AI Developer embedded with a pharmaceutical client to drive automation and advanced data analysis for clinical studies.

You will collaborate with statisticians, data scientists and AI leads to deliver practical workflow improvements and reusable tools. You will build proof-of-concept tools using R/Shiny, validate results, and document processes to maintain regulatory alignment.