Machine Learning Lead

Astrazeneca - Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

This role requires to work 3 days/weekly from the office, 2 from home. At Alexion, AstraZeneca’s Rare Disease unit, you will be the Indication Research team’s technical lead for ML engineering as we build an AI platform that transforms indication research for rare diseases into a data-driven and systematic triage process. Your mission is to co-design and develop the platform’s ML components. You will integrate and develop models working on biomedical knowledge graphs, multi-omics and imaging data, and real-world evidence to deliver mechanistic predictions and rank opportunities. Further, you will collaborate and communicate closely with bioinformatics, data engineering and digital infrastructure teams to inform our AI-driven drug development strategy.