Data Scientist/Software Engineer

Are you a skilled Data Scientist or Software Engineer with an interest in Chemistry and Life Science data? Do you hold strong software development and database skills? Would you like to apply your expertise to impact the digital transformation strategy in a company that follows the science and turns ideas into life changing medicines?

We are expanding our Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) team focused on Drug Design and are looking for a dedicated Data Scientist or Software Engineer, who together with your team will make a difference for patients' lives every day. The team operates in a highly cross disciplinary environment in close collaboration with a broad variety of expert teams across the company.

You are a true data authority and will curate, integrate and exploit data to enhance state of the art drug design. Your data science expertise and your curiosity for natural sciences is the fundament for your potential. This role will challenge and encourage you to execute and develop as scientist in a highly creative atmosphere. You will apply your knowledge in data science methodologies to tackle challenging drug design problems through AI.

When joining AstraZeneca, you enter a greatly collaborative environment where you can exchange ideas with several other authorities in the field, and where plans are put into practice. Your scientific experience combined with your high ambition and enthusiasm gives you a remarkable opportunity to influence the development of AstraZeneca's future in applying ML/AI to drug discovery projects.

Main Responsibilities

* Design and develop relational and graph databases for drug design
* Integrate data based on the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) concept
* Introduce, design and develop the necessary infrastructure to exploit data through AI applications for drug design. Examples are knowledge graphs and semantic reasoning
* Establish academic collaborations to access and drive the forefront of AI based data exploitation for drug development
* Plan, write and publish high quality scientific papers
* Actively participate in mentoring the cohort of Postdocs, PhD students and Master Thesis students in the team

Requirements

You are our future data creativity leader - passionate for exploiting data and eager to join our fast-paced multidisciplinary ML/AI drug design team. You have a PhD or equivalent in computer science, statistics, chemistry, life sciences or another similar discipline. You are expected to have a high degree of independence as well as collaboration skills.

* Validated expertise in software development (e.g. Python, C++, Java)
* Expertise in high-performance computing
* Demonstrable experience in database design and implementation
* Knowledge of data in the chemistry or life science domain would be a plus
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills
* Fluent in English, both spoken and in writing

Are you ready to make a difference? Apply now!

For more information about the position please contact hiring manager Ola Engkvist, +46 709642257 or

Welcome with your application no later than 15th of September 2019.

AstraZeneca is an equal opportunity employer. AstraZeneca will consider all qualified applicants for employment without discrimination on grounds of disability, sex or sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity leave status, race or national or ethnic origin, age, religion or belief, gender identity or re-assignment, marital or civil partnership status or any other characteristic protected by law. AstraZeneca only employs individuals with the right to work in the country/ies where the role is advertised.