Senior AI Solutions Engineer

Talentmark are recruiting for a Senior AI Solutions Engineer to join a company in the pharmaceutical industry on a contract basis for 12 months. This role is flexible hybrid, with offices in Welwyn Garden City.

Salary:

£566.31 - £641.81 per day PAYE or £750 - £850 per day Umbrella/Ltd.

Rates are dependent upon experience.

Senior AI Solutions Engineer Role:

• Lead the technical design of AI agents, assistants and smart dashboards for the Business Strategy & Operations team.
• Build AI tools on large language models, including links to business systems and search over company documents.
• Create simple chat-style tools that let leaders ask questions about project, resourcing and performance data.
• Build a shared library of AI components that other teams can reuse.
• Work with the Quality & Compliance team to make sure AI tools meet GxP rules, with clear audit trails and human checks.
• Set coding standards, mentor other engineers and explain technical choices to business colleagues.

Your Background:

• Very experienced in software, data or machine learning engineering, including experience building LLM-based tools that are used in production.
• Strong Python skills, plus solid R and R Shiny experience.
• Hands-on experience with LLM tools such as Claude or OpenAI, agent frameworks, RAG and vector search.
• Good knowledge of SQL, Snowflake, REST APIs, Git, CI/CD, Docker and AWS.
• Experience leading technical AI projects and an understanding of GxP and validation in a regulated industry, with the ability to explain complex ideas in plain language.

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.

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.