Senior AI Impact & Applied Innovation Lead

AstraZeneca plc; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent benefits

Job summary

AstraZeneca plc is seeking a Senior AI Impact & Applied Innovation Specialist in Cambridge to translate frontier AI capabilities into concrete impact. You will spearhead cross-departmental projects, align AI science with AZ’s drug discovery goals, and steward hypotheses from concept to decision-ready results.

You will navigate target identification to trial design questions, advocating for high-value problems and defining rigorous evaluation standards across translational research and clinical

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in a quantitative biological or computational discipline.
• Experience applying AI/ML to clinical, genomic, transcriptomic, or biomedical data in drug development or translational research.

Responsibilities

• Translate frontier AI ideas into actionable projects with clear success criteria and deployment paths.
• Lead cross-functional teams to deliver AI-enabled scientific insights that impact decision making in discovery and development.

Skills

AI/ML

Biomedical data

Oncology

Scientific communication

Stakeholder leadership

Education

PhD preferred; Master’s with substantial relevant experience

Job description

AstraZeneca plc is seeking a Senior AI Impact & Applied Innovation Specialist in Cambridge to translate frontier AI capabilities into concrete impact. You will spearhead cross-departmental projects, align AI science with AZ’s drug discovery goals, and steward hypotheses from concept to decision-ready results.

You will navigate target identification to trial design questions, advocating for high-value problems and defining rigorous evaluation standards across translational research and clinical