Senior Scientist - Clinical AI
AstraZeneca AB · Göteborg · Tills vidare · Deadline 2026-11-05
AstraZeneca AB is hiring a **Senior Scientist - Clinical AI** to join the BioPharma Clinical Development AI team in Gothenburg, Sweden. The role focuses on developing, evaluating, and deploying artificial intelligence and machine learning methods to accelerate clinical trial design, dose optimisation, biomarker discovery, and safety signal detection across cardiovascular, renal, metabolic, respiratory, and immunology disease areas. Working alongside clinical development, biometrics, and regulatory specialists, the scientist contributes to end-to-end project delivery, builds reusable data products, and applies techniques such as foundation models, agentic systems, and causal inference. The position requires working **on-site a minimum of three days per week** on average and is not open to remote work. Applicants must hold a **Master's or PhD degree in a quantitative discipline**—such as computer science, machine learning, statistics, mathematics, biomedical informatics, computational biology, physics, or engineering—or possess equivalent experience. Candidates need demonstrated experience developing AI/ML methods, practical experience handling biological or clinical data, solid Python and PyTorch proficiency, and strong communication skills. Helpful assets include exposure to clinical development, familiarity with MLOps or LLMOps, and relevant peer-reviewed publications.
About AstraZeneca and AISI
At AstraZeneca, technology and science meet to change what is possible for patients. We are building a connected, end-to-end Enterprise AI engine that unites data foundations, AI technology, process reinvention, and business-facing AI to accelerate results across the whole value chain. Success depends on being an exceptional connector: you will leverage existing capabilities, promote reuse, share breakthrough ideas across geographies and functions, and focus on scaling impact rather than building in isolation.
AI Science & Innovation (AISI) sits at the centre of AstraZeneca's R&D AI transformation. Our remit is to build, buy, and deliver the AI models and agents that change pipeline outcomes, across discovery, translational science, biomarkers, and clinical development.
Within AISI, the BioPharma Clinical Development AI team is building world-class AI capability to accelerate the design, conduct, and analysis of clinical trials across our BioPharmaceuticals pipeline, in both early and late phase programmes. We partner closely with clinical development, regulatory, and biometrics teams to bring better treatments to patients faster, while adhering to the highest evidentiary standards.
The Opportunity
Clinical development is one of the most data-rich and decision-intensive parts of bringing a new medicine to patients. Trial design, patient selection, dose optimisation, biomarker strategy, and safety evaluation are all areas where AI and machine learning can add rigour, speed, and precision, as a powerful complement to clinical and statistical expertise.
You will work in cross-functional teams across the key BioPharmaceuticals disease areas of cardiovascular, renal, metabolic disease, respiratory, and immunology. Alongside experienced data scientists and clinical collaborators, you will apply modern AI methods to measurably advance the drug pipeline and help build reusable approaches that scale across programmes.
Foundation models, agentic systems, and causal AI are advancing rapidly, and the regulatory and methodological frameworks around them are evolving in parallel. In this role you will be hands-on at the frontier, developing, evaluating, and deploying AI methods that directly inform clinical trial design and decision-making. Every model you contribute to will eventually touch a trial that decides whether a patient gets a better therapy. That is the bar we hold ourselves to.
What You'll Do
- Develop and deploy AI/ML methods for clinical trials, including trial design support, dose optimisation, biomarker discovery, digital twins, predictive modelling, and safety and efficacy signal detection
- Contribute to end-to-end project delivery, from problem framing and methodology selection through to validation and adoption within study teams, with guidance from senior colleagues on more complex initiative.
- Partner with Clinical Development, Biometrics, and Regulatory colleagues to embed AI approaches into study design and decision-making
- Build reusable, well-documented data products such as pipelines, packages, and applications, with a software engineering mindset
- Apply modern methodologies including foundation models, agentic AI, generative patient models, longitudinal modelling, Bayesian inference, and causal inference, with clear evaluation criteria
- Practise data-centric AI and contribute to evaluation and benchmarking frameworks suitable for clinical and regulatory settings
- Engage with internal and external scientific communities, contributing to publications and conference presentations
Essential Requirements
- A degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g. Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Mathematics, Biomedical Informatics, Computational Biology, Physics, Engineering) at Master's, or PhD level, or equivalent experience
- Demonstrated experience in AI/ML method development, shown through delivered models, publications, open-source contributions, or applied projects, ideally in clinical, biomedical, or drug development settings
- Hands-on experience with biological or clinical data, such as molecular (DNA, RNA, protein), imaging, or clinical text (EHR, clinical notes)
- Technical capability in one or more modern AI areas, such as foundation model training and fine-tuning, Bayesian inference, temporal and longitudinal modelling, multimodal integration, model interpretability, or post-training and alignment
- Strong Python skills, experience with PyTorch and modern LLM tooling, and familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex methods into actionable insights for clinical, regulatory, and scientific audiences
Desirable Skills and Experience
- Exposure to clinical development, such as trial design, biomarkers, dosing, safety, endpoints, or regulatory processes
- Experience with MLOps/LLMOps, uncertainty quantification, or clinical AI benchmarking
- Peer-reviewed publications in clinical AI, computational drug development, or machine learning
How You Work
- You are comfortable using, but not over-relying on, agentic AI tools to augment your work.
- You keep up with the latest AI research and try out new tools and methods without waiting to be directed.
Work policy
When we put people 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. This role is located in Gothenburg, Sweden and is not available for remote work or with travel or commuting support.
So, What's Next?
Are you ready to build AI that matters, at the intersection of machine learning, clinical science, and real patient impact? Submit your CV and cover letter no later than November 6, 2026.
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