AI Automation/Application Engineer

Talentmark are recruiting for an AI Automation/Application Engineer to join a company in the pharmaceutical industry on a contract basis for 12 months. This role is hybrid, with the office in Welwyn Garden City.
Company:
Our client is one of the world's premier innovative biopharmaceutical companies, discovering, developing and providing over 160 different medicines, vaccines and consumer healthcare products to help improve the lives of millions of people in the UK and around the world every year.
Salary:
.04 per day (PAYE) or 500 - 600 per day (Umbrella/Ltd). This contract can be outside of IR35.
Rates are dependent upon experience.
AI Automation Engineer Role:

• Build and maintain AI skills and agents that take on repetitive work, such as self-assembling reports and presentations, document checks and request-to-system workflows
• Develop agentified dashboards in R Shiny (or Shiny for Python) with built-in AI assistants that explain trends, flag issues and answer questions
• Automate manual, repetitive steps across business tools, documents and spreadsheets, including supervised automations where people review and approve outputs before use
• Build scheduled data pipelines and integrations that pull, clean, reconcile and combine data from business systems to create reliable insights
• Write tested, version-controlled code and clear documentation, and produce validation evidence for regulated use cases with the Senior AI Solutions Engineer and Quality & Compliance
• Run user testing, train business teams, gather feedback and iterate quickly, tracking usage and time saved. Maintain live tools and keep them working as source systems change.

Your Background:

• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Substantial experience building data applications, automations or internal tools used by business teams
• Strong Python for scripting, automation and data processing (pandas, requests, testing), plus solid R with experience building and deploying Shiny applications
• Good SQL and experience integrating systems through REST APIs
• Practical experience building with LLM APIs or AI coding tools, including prompt design and structured outputs
• Comfortable with Git and working iteratively with non-technical users, translating their needs into working tools.
• Nice to have: Snowflake or another cloud data warehouse, AI agents and agent frameworks (e.g. LangGraph), Docker and AWS deployment, pharmaceutical R&D or GxP experience, and a GitHub profile or portfolio.

Company:
Our client is one of the world's premier innovative biopharmaceutical companies, discovering, developing and providing over 160 different medicines, vaccines and consumer healthcare products to help improve the lives of millions of people in the UK and around the world every year.
Apply:
For more information, or to apply for this AI Automation/Application Engineer role, please contact the Key Accounts Team on (phone number removed) or email (url removed). Please quote reference 71655.
It is essential that applicants hold entitlement to work in the UK.
Please note: This role may be subject to a satisfactory basic Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.