Senior Engineer, Agentic AI - Oncology Data Science & AI

About the role

AstraZeneca Oncology is looking for a Senior Engineer for Agentic AI to join its Barcelona office. This is an in-office role with a minimum of three days per week on site, with no remote or travel flexibility. The engineer will build AI-driven solutions that tackle scientific research problems in cancer research.

Key responsibilities

• Build Agentic AI-driven solutions that tackle scientific research problems.
• Develop, test and support Agentic tools for genomics, computational pathology, clinical trials and similar areas.
• Automate complex data analysis processes.
• Introduce leading AI technologies applied to cancer research.

Required profile

• Relevant graduate degree in computer science, engineering, physical sciences or a related quantitative field.
• Extensive applied experience in data science, machine learning, AI engineering or a related field.
• Hands-on experience building Agentic AI systems.
• Strong domain knowledge in clinical oncology, including collaboration with clinical and scientific subject matter experts and familiarity with clinical trial design and clinical vocabularies.

Required skills

• Solid Python/R programming skills.
• Strong experience with Unix/Linux and SQL databases, and cloud computing (AWS, Azure).
• Data science best practices and production ML deployment (model development, evaluation, deployment to production pipelines such as Databricks).
• Desirable: AI frameworks such as Pydantic-AI and LangChain, RAG and vector databases, LLM/foundation model knowledge, and experience in a compiled language such as C, Java, Go or Rust.

To apply, candidates must complete the full application through the company's website.