Software Engineer - AI/ML

The AI Finance and Strategy team focuses on creating full-stack, AI-powered tools to support the most important question at the highest level: which drugs to develop and when. By leveraging data from across the organisation and beyond- from clinical trial readouts to external market analyses- we improve financial strategies and optimize decision-making. We're looking for a highly skilled software engineer to help us make this vision a reality. Competitive candidates will have a track record of writing and shipping quality, well-documented and well-tested software. Candidates should be comfortable with modern, cloud-native computing, and with continuous development and production deployment on cloud platforms to large user populations.

The AI/ML team is built on the principles of ownership, accountability, continuous development, and collaboration. We hire for the long term, and we're motivated to make this a great place to work. Our leaders will be committed to your career and development from day one.

In this role you will

• Back end development for a Python web application

• Integration of AI/ML components with frontend, backend, data and compute infrastructure

• Responsible for high quality software implementations according to best practices, including automated test suites and documentation

• Develop, measure, and monitor key metrics for all tools and services and consistently seek to iterate on and improve them

• Participate in code reviews, continuously improving personal standards as well as the wider team and product

• Liaise with other technical staff and data engineers in the team and across allied teams, to build an end-to-end pipeline consuming other data products

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (including computational or numerate), or equivalent experience
• Demonstrated experience of Python backend development (e.g. using FastAPI)
• Cloud experience (e.g. Azure preferred) including core web application infrastructure is essential
• Strong skills in Python
• Unit testing experience (e.g. pytest)
• Knowledge of agile practices and able to perform in agile software development environments
• Strong knowledge of modern software development tools / ways of working (e.g. git/GitHub, DevOps tools for deployment) - should be able to show practice of commit early and deploy often

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Experience with Docker or containerized applications, especially architecture of multi-container applications
• Knowledge of AI/ML approaches and deployment of AI/ML powered applications - especially using language models or NLP and agent-based approaches (e.g. LangGraph, PydanticAI, AutoGen)
• Knowledge of AI/ML evaluation and benchmarking approaches, experience with iterative improvement of AI/ML models and products
• Some experience with frontend software development (e.g. React)

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases - to impact health at scale. People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we're committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people. GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law. We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are., Please note that if you are a US Licensed Healthcare Professional or Healthcare Professional as defined by the laws of the state issuing your license, GSK may be required to capture and report expenses GSK incurs, on your behalf, in the event you are afforded an interview for employment. This capture of applicable transfers of value is necessary to ensure GSK's compliance to all federal and state US Transparency requirements. For more information, please visit the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) website at https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov