Parexel Uxbridge, England, United Kingdom
Senior AI Solution Developer
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Parexel is in the business of improving the world’s health. We do this by providing a suite of biopharmaceutical services that help clients across the globe transform scientific discoveries into new treatments. We believe in our values: Patients First, Quality, Respect, Empowerment & Accountability.
This role will work within our Hyper Automation SG&A department, which is an innovative team that will build and deploy leading AI-driven solutions to improve workflows common across both Parexel and the life sciences industry.
This role is based in the UK and can be either office/hybrid based in Sheffield or fully home based anywhere in the UK.
Responsibilities
ML and Gen AI Technology in Foundry
* Leverage Palantir Foundry to build and deploy reusable custom machine learning models, ontologies and end‑user applications.
* Design, implement and document new ML/Gen AI modeling techniques and strategies.
* Develop ML pipelines and workflows in Foundry to support AI solution development and deployment.
* Review and adapt recent research in ML and Gen AI into Foundry‑based prototypes and production solutions.
* Review code and pipelines of other engineers to enhance ML quality and security within Foundry.
Applied ML POCs and Experimentation
* Understand business needs and user workflows and support interpretation in the context of potential AI solutions in Foundry.
* Develop custom models and AI/Gen AI solutions using Foundry’s ML capabilities to address business needs.
* Lead experiment and model evaluation design based on well‑foundated best practices in machine learning to ensure safe, effective and principled AI development practices within Foundry.
* Carry out AI solution prototyping and experimentation using Foundry’s tools, various LLMs and environments.
AI-based Production Solutions
* Collaborate with product to define and implement features to satisfy customer requirements within Foundry.
* Design and develop high‑quality AI‑based production pipelines, workflows and applications in Foundry.
* Participate in planning and check‑in meetings to identify customer needs, potential roadblocks and solutions and support the software solution lifecycle within the Foundry ecosystem from an AI perspective.
AI Expertise, Education and Advocacy
* Act as an AI and Foundry advisor across Parexel.
Software Engineering
* Develop front‑end software and user experiences using the latest application programming frameworks, libraries and languages with focus on using Palantir’s Foundry platform (Workshop, Slate, etc.) and external frameworks/libraries (React, etc.).
Education
* Educated to BSc. or MSc level in Engineering or Computer Science with a focus on Machine Learning (and GenAI) or other equivalent qualification/experience.
Skills
* Experience in Palantir Foundry, its ecosystem and components, including building Workshop Apps, building and deploying modeling objectives and managing code repos and pipelines.
* Machine Learning, Generative AI (Gen AI), Deep Learning (building and deploying NLP systems within Palantir Foundry).
* Strong and proven CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
* Strong and proven theoretical and practical experience in modern ML technologies, including transformers, graphical models, information retrieval techniques, LLMs, time series models, reinforcement learning, etc.
* Strong and proven software engineering fundamentals, including the ability to write production‑ready code, establish and enforce high engineering standards, architect packages and own architectural and procedural choices for effective shared codebases within Foundry.
* Knowledge of Python and scientific computing packages (PyTorch, NumPy, Scikit‑learn, TensorFlow).
* Experience with data modeling and pipeline development in Palantir Foundry.
* Experience with front‑end development for intuitive user experience.
* Broad skillset with database technologies including relational, non‑relational and graph.
* Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills and ability to advise and mentor.
* A flexible attitude with respect to work assignments and new learning.
* Ability to manage multiple and varied tasks with enthusiasm and prioritize workload with attention to detail.
* Willingness to work in a matrix environment with a variety of non‑technical stakeholders and technical collaborators and to value the importance of teamwork.
Knowledge and Experience
* Advanced and strong experience with foundry (Workshop, Pipeline‑builder, Ontology Manager), JIRA, Confluence, Docker, Git, GitHub.
* Strong experience working in applications with RESTful JSON API endpoints.
* Advanced experience with Azure and Docker.
* Experience producing high‑quality code in a shared context.
* Up‑to‑date with state‑of‑the‑art machine learning (and Gen AI) techniques and models.
* Strong experience owning the delivery of value‑driven production‑quality AI solutions and models and acting as a lead on such projects in a professional engineering context.
* Experience acting as a lead on AI projects in a professional engineering context, preferably using Foundry.
Benefits
We will offer a structured career pathway and encouragement to develop within the role including awareness and understanding of the industry. You will be well supported and your hard work will be rewarded with a competitive base salary as well as a benefits package including holiday, private healthcare, dental insurance and other benefits that you would expect with a top company in the CRO industry.
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