Software Engineer, AI Engineer, Cloud Engineer - Software

Job Title: Software Engineer - Evinova

Location: Gaithersburg, MD

At AstraZeneca, we put patients first and strive to meet their unmet needs worldwide. Working here means being entrepreneurial, thinking big and working together to make the impossible a reality. If you are swift to action, confident to lead, willing to collaborate, and curious about what science can do, then you’re our kind of person.

Recognizing the importance of individualized flexibility, our ways of working allow employees to balance personal and work commitments while ensuring we continue to create a strong culture of collaboration and teamwork by engaging face‑to‑face in our offices 3 days a week. Our head office is purposely designed with collaboration in mind, providing space where teams can come together to strategize, brainstorm and connect on key projects.

Are you ready to be part of the future of healthcare? Can you think big, be bold, and harness the power of digital and AI to tackle longstanding life sciences challenges? Then Evinova, a global health tech business might be for you!

Transform patients’ lives through technology, data, and innovative ways of working. You’re disruptive, decisive, and transformative. Someone excited to use technology to improve patients’ health. We’re building a new Health‑tech business – Evinova, a fully‑owned subsidiary of AstraZeneca Group.

Evinova delivers market‑leading digital health solutions that are science‑based, evidence‑led, and human experience‑driven. Thoughtful risks and quick decisions come together to accelerate innovation across the life sciences sector. Be part of a diverse team that pushes the boundaries of science by digitally empowering a deeper understanding of the patients we’re helping. Launch pioneering digital solutions that improve the patients’ experience and deliver better health outcomes.

Together, we have the opportunity to combine deep scientific expertise with digital and artificial intelligence to serve the wider healthcare community and create new standards across the sector.

Evinova is currently looking for a Software Engineer to join our Product Engineering team. This role requires someone that codes daily, is self‑motivated, and has a passion for development. We’ll rely on you to bring your technical acumen to help the team continue to deliver world class solutions.

In this role, you will be a Software Engineer in our product – Study Designer. Study Designer empowers clinical teams to design, optimize and automate authoring and downstream systems. It combines AI with deep expertise to accelerate timelines, enhance site and patient experiences, and unlock significant cost savings. This role will be based in Gaithersburg, US and you will be a part of our global product engineering team.

Our team is a high‑performing team in a fast‑paced environment, and you will often be working with team members across multiple locations. You will be collaborating with cross functional teams – like design, product, and platform. You will be given requirements that you are expected to understand, plan, develop, and thoroughly test before considering the work completed. Deployments are also handled by our team, and you will need to be capable of deploying your code.

You are expected to thoroughly understand the Software Development Lifecycle and best practices that should allow you to help your fellow teammates, deliver/deploy the product, and elevate appropriately to your lead. You will also be coordinating with different teams as needed for integrations.

• You will be responsible for writing quality code to match the requirements.
• You will be coding using best practices and test your code locally.
• You will ensure proper code coverage and participate actively in regular code reviews.
• You will raise and elevate any issues/blockers in time to your lead.
• You will collaborate with AI tools to move beyond vibe coding into prompt engineering, designing and refining prompts to optimize AI model performance.

Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, Electrical Engineering, Math, Computer Science, Information Science, or…