Senior AI Translational Scientist, Translational Medicine

AstraZeneca; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent Benefits

Job summary

AstraZeneca seeks a Senior Scientist to build and benchmark AI tools for translational science in Cambridge. You will partner with translational scientists, bioinformaticians and AI experts to frame valuable questions and deliver robust AI-driven solutions that support evidence-based decisions across research and development.

You will evaluate AI rigorously, translate promising prototypes into reusable capabilities, and communicate findings to advance patient outcomes.

Qualifications

• MSc or equivalent experience in computer science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, statistics, mathematics, physics or another highly quantitative discipline.
• Demonstrated experience developing, fine-tuning, evaluating or deploying modern AI systems, including foundation models, large language models, multimodal models or deep learning approaches.
• Proven ability to rapidly assess emerging AI techniques and apply them to real-world scientific and industry challenges.
• Advanced Python skills and experience producing clear, tested, reproducible analytical code using collaborative version control.
• Contributions to open-source AI projects, leading AI conferences or impactful industrial AI products.

Responsibilities

• Partner with translational scientists and bioinformaticians to identify and prioritise high-impact scientific problems.
• Design, prototype and scale AI capabilities using state-of-the-art models, tools and architectures, including retrieval-augmented generation, agentic workflows and multimodal AI systems where appropriate.
• Partner with engineers to transition promising AI approaches into robust, governed and reusable products.
• Contribute to scientific strategy, technical standards, code quality and knowledge sharing across the team.

Skills

MSc/Quant degree

AI systems experience

Python programming

Open-source contributions

AI evaluation/benchmarking

Education

MSc or equivalent in quantitative field

PhD in data science or related field

Job description

AstraZeneca seeks a Senior Scientist to build and benchmark AI tools for translational science in Cambridge. You will partner with translational scientists, bioinformaticians and AI experts to frame valuable questions and deliver robust AI-driven solutions that support evidence-based decisions across research and development.

You will evaluate AI rigorously, translate promising prototypes into reusable capabilities, and communicate findings to advance patient outcomes.