Senior AI Engineer

AstraZeneca

📍 cambridge, england, United-Kingdom

Full-time IT & Technology Posted June 15, 2026

Job Description

Senior AI Engineer

Forward Deployed AI, Enterprise AI Unit. Cambridge, UK

Competitive salary and benefits

Are you ready to turn ambiguous enterprise challenges into credible, production AI that moves the needle for patients and the business? Do you want to ship agentic and retrieval-augmented systems that colleagues rely on every day? Join our forward‑deployed AI engineering team within a newly created enterprise unit in Cambridge, where your work will help accelerate how we discover, develop and deliver medicines.

Accountabilities

  • Agentic AI Development: Design, implement and iterate agentic workflows that orchestrate tools, sub‑agents and multi‑step reasoning to deliver deterministic, auditable outcomes to business users.
  • Retrieval‑Augmented Systems: Build robust RAG pipelines and context engineering strategies that ground LLM outputs in enterprise knowledge, improve factuality and reduce hallucinations.
  • Evaluation a...