AI Software Architect - RDT Biometrics and Clinical Evidence

The Biometrics and Clinical Evidence team is central to drug development, driving efficiency, safety, and innovation. Our core function is to enable Pharma Development and Research in enhancing clinical trial design and optimizing success by ensuring robust protocols and minimizing risks through simulations, acquiring and managing high quality data - including clinical trial, real-world, imaging, and patient-centric data - to generate evidence, provide actionable insights, and support regulatory filings.

Key capabilities include:

• AI & Agentic Engineering
• Software & Platform Engineering
• Data Engineering & Architecture
• Semantic, Knowledge & Context Design
• Responsible AI / regulated engineering
• Product & business translation
• Engineering leadership

The opportunity:

• Build and lead the Data & AI Engineering capability • Build, develop and lead a high-performing team of Data & AI Engineers, establishing a strong engineering culture focused on technical excellence, experimentation, reuse, collaboration and measurable impact.
• Define the capabilities, roles, development pathways and engineering practices required for AI Engineering across BCE and the broader R&D RDT Org..

• Translate scientific opportunities into scalable Data & AI solutions • Partner closely with Product Managers, data teams and PD stakeholders to translate high-value business and scientific problems into technically robust AI solutions.
• Provide technical leadership from early exploration and proof of concept through architecture, development, deployment, adoption and lifecycle management.
• Ensure rapid experimentation can transition effectively into production-grade solutions where value is demonstrated.

• Establish reusable Data & AI and agentic engineering capabilities • Define and implement reusable patterns, components and reference architectures for generative AI, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic workflows, knowledge retrieval and AI-enabled applications.
• Drive a "build once, reuse many" engineering philosophy, reducing duplication and accelerating delivery across use cases.
• Identify common capabilities emerging across individual solutions and partner with platform teams to industrialise them as shared services where appropriate.

• Build high-performance Data & AI context and semantic retrieval systems • Architect scalable data pipelines, high-throughput vector search indexes, and hybrid retrieval systems explicitly tuned for LLM grounding and retrieval-augmented generation.
• Define and implement structured schema metadata formats and function-calling protocols to ensure precise, reliable agent tool invocation.
• Optimize dynamic context windows, chunking strategies, and data freshness to drive accurate model reasoning across complex enterprise domains.

• Team Member Capability and Career Development 🚀 • Proactively identifies and develops future-focused engineering team capabilities, aligning with long-term strategic goals.
• Mentors team members on long-term career paths, creating new opportunities and roles within the organization to support their growth.
• Addresses and helps resolve complex, systemic roadblocks that impact multiple development teams, and coaches other managers on effective performance management.
• Oversees the technical and soft skill development, ensuring a balanced and high-performing talent portfolio.

• Team Health and Sustainability 🌱 • Establishes and monitors metrics for team health and sustainability across several development teams, implementing strategies to ensure long-term balance.
• Designs and implements initiatives to improve collaboration and psychological safety across multiple related development teams or a whole product area.
• Proactively identifies and resolves systemic impediments that affect multiple development teams, improving the overall work environment.
• Manages the talent composition for own and related teams, planning for future needs and ensuring a healthy pipeline of skills.

Who you are:

Experience

• 8-12+ years relevant technology/software/data experience, with meaningful technical leadership experience with a proven track record of building high performing teams
• 2+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or regulated healthcare technology industry

Education

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Science, Bioinformatics or a related quantitative discipline.
• Advanced degree preferred but not required where equivalent experience demonstrates deep technical capability.

Technical & business skills

• Strong practical understanding of modern AI engineering, particularly: Generative AI / LLMs • RAG • agentic architectures • tool use/function calling • orchestration • evaluation • prompt/context engineering • embeddings/vector search • knowledge retrieval • model selection • observability • Fine-tuning/Distillation, Multimodal, High-throughput serving (vLLM)
• Python • APIs • microservices • cloud architectures • CI/CD • containers • Git • automated testing • infrastructure/platform patterns • identity/access management • observability • DevSecOps • AI FinOps (Token/GPU cost management), Model fallback routing • cloud-native container orchestrations (Kubernetes, AWS/GCP serverless platforms)
• Data pipelines • semantic models • metadata • APIs • structured/unstructured data • vector databases • knowledge graphs • interoperability • data quality • lineage • provenance
• Privacy • security • GxP considerations • validation • auditability • traceability • human-in-the-loop • model evaluation • AI risk management
• Architecture standards • engineering quality • code review • reusable patterns • technical mentoring • hiring • capability development • prioritisation • delivery discipline • Vendor lock-in mitigation, Buy vs. Build frameworks, AI Change Management
• Problem Framing and Product thinking
• Scientific Curiosity and Value Orientation

Leadership skills

• Demonstrated experience building high performing teams
• Have a keen IT market focus: you are passionate about major trends in AI
• Demonstrates an executive presence, strong business acumen, ability to navigate ambiguity, and manages complexity
• Manages risks progressively and in a way that leads to opportunity
• Enterprise mindset that can break down silos. Focus on delivery through collaboration, and bringing people together to work towards the same purpose across organizational boundaries.
• Ability to empower teams and individuals to act autonomously and hold them accountable.
• Exhibits intellectual curiosity and integrity and has a strong passion for innovation

What you get:

• Salary range 19,075 - 35,425 PLN gross based on the employment contract.
• Annual bonus payment based on your performance.
• Dedicated training budget (training, certifications, conferences, diversified career paths etc.).
• Recharge Fridays (2 Fridays off per quarter available).
• Take time Program (up to 3 months of leave to use for any purpose).
• Vacation subsidy available.
• Flex Location (possibility to perform our work from different places in the world for a certain period of time).
• Take Time for Charity (additional paid leave of maximum 2 weeks to engage in the charity action of your choice).
• Private healthcare (LuxMed packages), group life insurance (UNUM) and Multisport.
• Stock share purchase additions.
• Yearly sales of company laptops and cars and many more!

Apply directly and join us in shaping the future of healthcare.

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Compensation & Benefits

The expected salary range for this position, based on the primary location of Warsaw Grafit is 228,900.00 PLN - 425,100.00 PLN. Final compensation will be determined by a number of factors, including your skills, experience, qualifications, and location. In addition to base pay, this role may be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus with a target of 20% subject to both individual and company performance. This position also offers an attractive benefits package .

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