Associate Principal AI & ML Engineer – Evinova

It currently takes over 10 years and $ to develop a drug. More than 70% of that investment goes into clinical trials, yet only ~10% of candidates make it from Phase I to approval. Evinova - a new health-tech business within the AstraZeneca Group — is here to change the math. We use advanced algorithms and GenAI to aim high: boosting clinical trial success by 20%, cutting development time by 3 years, and halving study costs.

As Associate Principal AI & ML Engineer, you will prototype and build the systems that make those targets real—blending forecasting, optimization, and evidence synthesis to drive transparent and actionable recommendations. You’ll integrate multi‑source data - historical signals, external context, and real‑world data (RWD) - into production systems to improve the process of designing clinical trials and increase their probability of success.

If you're motivated by meaningful problems and comfortab...