Senior AI Product Engineer & Technical Leader

AstraZeneca GmbH; Gaithersburg (MD); On-site; USD 172,000 - 259,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan

Health benefits

Paid vacation and holidays

Equity-based long-term incentive

Job summary

AstraZeneca GmbH in Gaithersburg, MD seeks a pragmatic builder-architect—senior engineer who ships fast with design discipline. This hands-on technical leader role is roughly 40% coding and prototyping, with the remainder spent on architecture, mentoring and raising the engineering bar within your team.

You will design AI-powered features, own the full stack, mentor engineers, and read existing systems to understand context before proposing changes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 8+ years in software engineering with senior-level ownership.
• Production experience shipping AI-powered features (agents, RAG, model orchestration).
• Strong full-stack capability across application code, data stores and infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design and build AI-powered product features with production-grade rigor.
• Own the full stack for the features you build, including deployment and security.
• Mentor engineers and raise the engineering bar within the team.
• Read existing systems to understand context before proposing changes.
• Manage blast radius of technical decisions and steer toward durable solutions.

Skills

Software engineering

AI feature delivery

Mentoring / leadership

AWS at scale

Full-stack understanding

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Python

Node.js

TypeScript

Job description

AstraZeneca GmbH in Gaithersburg, MD seeks a pragmatic builder-architect—senior engineer who ships fast with design discipline. This hands-on technical leader role is roughly 40% coding and prototyping, with the remainder spent on architecture, mentoring and raising the engineering bar within your team.

You will design AI-powered features, own the full stack, mentor engineers, and read existing systems to understand context before proposing changes.