Advanced AI Engineer (Bangalore, Karnataka, IN)

Biopharma Careers; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development

Learning opportunities

Job summary

Novo Nordisk in Bengaluru, India, is seeking an Advanced AI Engineer to design, build, and operate AI-powered products that generate business value. You will collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and engineers to deliver scalable, secure AI solutions from concept to production.

You will apply strong software engineering with practical AI expertise, ensuring responsible AI, data integrity, and auditability in a regulated pharma environment.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience building AI or software products; scope matters.
• Experience taking AI-centric apps from idea to production.
• Experience operating AI solutions in production with monitoring and cost considerations.
• Strong programming and software engineering skills with modern development practices.

Responsibilities

• Take AI/ML use cases from discovery through production and iteration.
• Engineer the product-specific intelligence layer with data transformations and integrations.
• Partner with stakeholders to frame problems, set priorities, and define outcomes.
• Use AI-assisted tools responsibly while maintaining code quality and reviews.
• Build reliable, scalable, secure, and observable AI solutions with testing and CI/CD.

Skills

AI engineering

Software engineering

CI/CD

GitHub

Observability

Stakeholder communication

Product sense

Independent delivery

Collaboration

Problem framing

Education

Engineering degree in CS/AI/ML/Data Science

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Azure ML

Unity Catalog

Job description

Department: AI Reinvent & Engineering, Enterprise AI

Company: Novo Nordisk Global Business Services (GBS), Bengaluru, India

Are you passionate about applying AI to improve patients' lives?

Do you enjoy building innovative products that solve real business challenges? Are you motivated by working with talented colleagues across technology, data, and business domains? If so, you could be the next Advanced AI Engineer in Enterprise AI at Novo Nordisk.

Join us to help transform AI opportunities into scalable solutions that create meaningful impact across our global organisation and support our purpose of defeating serious chronic diseases.

Your New Role

As an Advanced AI Engineer, you will help design, build, and operate AI-powered products that generate value across Novo Nordisk. You will be part of AI Reinvent & Engineering and work closely with cross-functional product teams across areas such as Commercial, Global Manufacturing & Supply, and strategic business initiatives.

In this role, you will collaborate with product managers, domain experts, data scientists, and software engineers to deliver robust AI solutions from concept to production. You will combine strong software engineering practices with practical AI expertise to develop solutions that are scalable, secure, and aligned with business needs.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Taking AI- and ML-centric use cases from discovery and rapid prototyping through production and continuous improvement, collaborating with product managers, data scientists, engineers, and domain experts
• Engineering the product-specific intelligence layer, including data and feature transformations, decision logic, model and tool integrations, knowledge grounding, user-facing services, human-oversight controls and appropriate fallback behaviour
• Partnering with stakeholders and product managers to frame problems, shape the build, agree priorities, and define meaningful product outcomes
• Using AI-assisted development tools and coding agents productively and responsibly while maintaining high standards for code quality and review
• Engineering reliable, scalable, secure, and observable solutions with appropriate testing, evaluation, documentation, and CI/CD practices
• Applying Responsible AI, data integrity, validation, traceability, and auditability requirements in a regulated pharmaceutical environment
• Working with the AI Foundation team to reuse shared capabilities and turn lessons from individual deliveries into reusable components and engineering patterns
• Taking independent ownership of defined solution components and contributing to technical and product decisions

Your New Department

Enterprise AI is responsible for accelerating the use of AI across Novo Nordisk. We work closely with business teams to identify opportunities where AI can create meaningful impact and deliver solutions that support colleagues and ultimately improve outcomes for patients.

Within Enterprise AI, AI Reinvent & Engineering transforms AI ideas into real-world products. The AI Engineering Solutions team brings together professionals with expertise in AI, machine learning, software engineering, and data science.

While you will belong to a strong engineering community, you will also work directly with product teams across different business areas. This enables us to stay connected to business needs while continuously developing shared capabilities and engineering excellence.

Our technology landscape includes cloud-native platforms and modern AI technologies, such as Azure, AWS, Databricks, Snowflake, foundation models, and AI application frameworks.

Your Skills & Qualifications

• Typically 2+ years of relevant experience building AI or software products; demonstrated scope and capability matter more than tenure alone
• Experience taking AI-centric applications from idea to production and/or contributing to a product or platform team
• Hands-on experience operating AI solutions in production, including evaluation, monitoring, reliability, and cost-performance trade-offs
• A sound foundation in statistical and machine-learning concepts together with practical experience of modern AI application patterns
• Strong programming and software engineering skills, including testing, documentation, APIs, and modern development practices such as CI/CD, preferably with GitHub
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools and coding agents effectively as part of software delivery
• Functional knowledge of modern AI interfaces and standards, such as model and tool integrations, MCP, and observability approaches
• Product sense and the ability to work with stakeholders to clarify needs, shape solutions, and explain technical choices to technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to work independently on defined delivery areas and contribute sound technical and product judgement
• Demonstrated ability to independently take a defined AI solution component from problem framing through production and iteration
• A collaborative mindset, good listening skills, self-motivation, and continuous curiosity about the evolving field of AI
• B.E/M.E/B.Tech/M.Tech in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, or a closely related technical discipline

Additional desirable but not required skills include:

• Familiarity with pharma-specific AI domains: clinical NLP, drug discovery AI, regulatory automation, or medical knowledge graphs
• Experience with Databricks, Snowflake, Azure ML, and Unity Catalog in an enterprise data/AI platform context
• Knowledge of MCP (Model Context Protocol) server design and enterprise AI platform architecture patterns

Working at Novo Nordisk

Every day we seek solutions that defeat serious chronic diseases. We approach our work with determination, curiosity, and a commitment to finding better ways forward. For more than 100 years, this dedication has shaped a company focused on lasting change for long-term health. In AI Reinvent & Engineering, your work will help turn AI into reliable products used across a global healthcare company.

What we offer

At Novo Nordisk, you'll join a global healthcare company with a distinct culture and strong results. We offer continuous learning, career development, and benefits tailored to your life and career stage.

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.

At Novo Nordisk, we're not chasing quick fixes – we're creating lasting change for long-term health. For over 100 years, we've been driven by a single purpose: to defeat serious chronic diseases and help millions of people live healthier lives. This dedication fuels our constant curiosity and inspires us to push the boundaries of what's possible in healthcare. We embrace diverse perspectives, seek out bold ideas, and build partnerships rooted in shared purpose. Together, we're making healthcare more accessible, treating and preventing diseases, and pioneering solutions that create change spanning generations. When you join us, you become part of something bigger – a legacy of impact that reaches far beyond today.