This is an in-office role based in Barcelona, ES, with a requirement to work a minimum of three days per week on-site. Remote or travel flexibility is not available.Are you ready to turn cutting-edge AI research into robust, secure products that accelerate how new medicines are discovered? Do you want to build the platforms and workflows scientists rely on to ask bolder questions and make faster, better decisions? In this role, you will lead the engineering that brings high-value AI breakthroughs to life at enterprise scale. You will partner closely with researchers, scientists and platform teams to design, harden and run AI systems that are reproducible, performant and trusted. Your work will shorten the path from idea to impact, helping teams progress promising science with greater speed and confidence. You will operate across cloud and on-premises environments, shaping standards, automation and reusable capabilities that uplift the entire organization. If you thrive on solving hard problems, mentoring others and proving what’s possible with AI in real-world settings,



this is the place to make your mark. Key AccountabilitiesProvide technical leadership for AI platform and product engineering, with particular focus on software design, reproducibility, performance and maintainability.Engineer research prototypes into secure, scalable and supportable products and reusable platform capabilities for Discovery.Develop and optimize machine-learning training and inference workflows across cloud and on-premises infrastructure.Own and promote software engineering standards, documentation, testing, code review and reusable delivery patterns.Use CI/CD, DevOps, GitOps and MLOps automation to improve delivery speed, reliability and operational efficiency.Partner with AI researchers, scientists, platform teams and external collaborators to translate scientific needs into effective technical solutions.Mentor engineers, contribute to architecture decisions, and promote responsible

📌 Associate Director, AI Engineering for Discovery (Barcelona)
🏢 AstraZeneca
📍 Barcelona