(Senior)Scientist,AIAlliance/Innovation

**About the Role:** We are seeking creative, and collaborative Scientists/Senior Scientists to join the team with a dedicated focus on AI Alliance & Innovation. This role will accelerate AstraZeneca’s biologics discovery and engineering by scouting, evaluating, and integrating external AI capabilities across academia, startups, and technology vendors—while closely partnering with internal wet-lab scientists, AI/data scientists, bioinformatics, protein engineers, and structural biologists across the UK, US, and China. You will translate scientific needs into partnership opportunities, co-design agile pilots to validate cutting-edge methods and drive successful solutions into practice. This is an opportunity to shape the future of biologics through external innovation, ecosystem engagement, and impactful AI-driven science within AstraZeneca’s research network. **Key Responsibilities** * Opportunity sourcing and due diligence: Proactively identify academic and industry partners; lead technical and scientific assessments, evaluate data readiness, integration feasibility, IP posture, and regulatory considerations; develop clear recommendations and business cases. * Pilot co-design and execution: Co-create and run time-bound pilots with partners and internal teams; define hypotheses, success metrics, datasets, guardrails, and delivery plans; ensure robust benchmarking against internal baselines and state-of-the-art. * Data and model integration: Coordinate data access, curation, and governance; align on interoperable formats and pipelines to integrate external models and outputs with AZ systems and workflows. * Translation to impact: Drive the adoption of successful pilots into discovery and engineering workflows; define scale-up plans, change management, training, and monitoring; ensure reproducibility, documentation, and compliance. * Cross-functional collaboration: Bridge computational and experimental domains—partner with wet lab scientists to guide experimental desig