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Role: Associate Principal AI Engineer - Mathematical Optimisation
Location: Cambridge UK
Salary: Competitive + Excellent Benefits
Do you have expertise in, and passion for Operations Research and AI? Would you like to apply your modelling expertise in a company that follows the science and turns ideas into life changing medicines? Then AstraZeneca might be the place for you!
Disrupt an industry and change lives
At AstraZeneca, we are committed to being a great place to work, where people are empowered to push the boundaries of science and make a meaningful impact on patients, medicine, and society. We foster an inclusive culture built on diversity, collaboration, and continuous learning.
In technology, you will be encouraged to take ownership, challenge the status quo, and drive innovation. By enabling the business to operate faster and more effectively, you will help deliver solutions that ultimately improve lives around the world.
What you’ll do
The ideal candidate will bring proven experience in designing, developing, and supporting end-to-end AI and optimisation solutions across a broad range of business challenges.
This role offers the opportunity to work on some of the most complex and high-impact AI and optimisation engineering problems in the pharmaceutical industry. As part of a global team of AI engineers, data scientists, scientists, and software developers, you will help design, build, and support tools that transform how AstraZeneca operates at scale, improving efficiency in our mission to benefit millions of patients worldwide.
You will work closely with engineering and product teams to deliver and support scalable solutions within the AstraZeneca technology landscape, while championing software engineering best practices across the organisation.
We are looking for an engineer who can build and maintain robust, accurate, and reliable end-to-end AI solutions used across AstraZeneca. You should be comfortable working with complex systems and applying AI and optimisation at scale to drive productivity and business impact.
Key Accountabilities
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So, what’s next?
Be part of something where your work directly impacts a big purpose: to develop life-changing medicines. Join Us!
Where can I find out more?
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When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That’s why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we’re not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.
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Date Posted
05-Nov-2026Closing Date
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