Senior Forward Deployment Engineer - Cheminformatics & AI Modelling
AI summary of the role
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer with a chemistry background to build and enhance AstraZeneca's next-generation multi-modality drug discovery platform, focusing on the A-DMTA ecosystem.
What you’ll do
- Partner directly with scientists and technical stakeholders to translate high-value problems into practical engineering solutions.
- Design, build, deploy, and improve software applications, agentic solutions, MCP servers, and tools supporting scientific workflows.
- Prototype rapidly, validate with users, and evolve solutions into production-grade systems.
- Bridge chemistry, cheminformatics, data, and engineering to deliver integrated solutions across scientific workflows.
What you’ll bring
- Strong software engineering expertise in Python with advanced OOD for production applications.
- Background in chemistry (PhD preferred, Masters essential) with cheminformatics experience.
- Experience designing, building, and deploying scalable software systems, APIs, and services in production.
- Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, Oracle) and/or NoSQL (Elasticsearch).
Technologies
Python · cheminformatics · PostgreSQL · Oracle · Elasticsearch · Docker · Kubernetes · GitHub Actions · ArgoCD · AWS · Grafana · Prometheus
About AstraZeneca
Science-led biopharma developing and commercializing prescription medicines across oncology, chronic disease, respiratory/immunology, infectious disease, and rare disease, with AI-enabled R&D and global launch scale.
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