Clinical R & AI Automation Engineer for Trials

Cytel; Ireland; Remote; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Cytel is seeking an experienced R Automation and AI Solutions Developer passionate about clinical development and analysis. You will lead development of automated tooling, dashboards, and reproducible workflows, collaborating with statisticians, data scientists, and AI leads to improve trials.

You will employ R, Shiny, and LLM-assisted coding to create reusable prototypes, ensure regulated delivery with validation, audit trails, and version control, and present results to both technical and

Qualifications

• Strong R programmer.
• Comfortable with clinical trial data and CDISC concepts.
• Experience building automation tools, R packages, R Shiny applications and dashboards, or reusable internal utilities.
• Understands regulated delivery: validation, audit trail, traceability, version control, documentation, testing.
• Understands Git, code review, unit testing, CI/CD concepts.
• Experience using LLMs for coding, summarization, extraction, documentation, review, or workflow automation.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

R programming

Shiny dashboards

Automation tooling

Git version control

CI/CD

LLMs for coding

Tools

R

Shiny

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Cytel is seeking an experienced R Automation and AI Solutions Developer passionate about clinical development and analysis. You will lead development of automated tooling, dashboards, and reproducible workflows, collaborating with statisticians, data scientists, and AI leads to improve trials.

You will employ R, Shiny, and LLM-assisted coding to create reusable prototypes, ensure regulated delivery with validation, audit trails, and version control, and present results to both technical and