AI Engineer

For over 100 years we have been driving change to defeat diabetes, but we know that what got us here today is not necessarily what will make us successful in the future. We are now transforming our business and taking our expertise into new territories including obesity and rare blood and endocrine diseases.  

Our story is one of incredible growth and success, which has culminated in receiving many prestigious awards, such as Best Places to Work and Vitality – Britain’s Healthiest Workplace.

The Position

We are looking for an experienced full stack engineer who is excited about building quality Generative AI solutions and energized about making a large impact for users and ultimately the patients of Novo Nordisk. Our applications bring cutting-edge AI innovation to thousands of scientists, data scientists, ML engineers, and users in the line of business. We apply healthy engineering principles, and our ambition is to deliver the best AI solutions tailored to Novo Nordisk, using our modern and integrated development process.

The role requires self-sufficiency in creating and driving AI and data-centric projects and initiatives. That implies deep knowledge of the emerging AI stack, both backend and frontend, good knowledge of AI architecture and tools (vector DBs, data pipelines, knowledge graphs, agents), and the ability to easily convey knowledge and deeply technical expertise to colleagues and stakeholders with and without a technical background. 

As part of your role, you will: 

• Build, deploy, iterate on and maintain robust, efficient, and compliant AI-centric solutions from PoCs to MVPs and ultimately mature products with stakeholders across Novo Nordisk.
• Navigate complicated business domains and corporate structures to find and successfully engage with technical and non-technical colleagues and help them navigate the field of AI.
• Stay at the forefront of this ever-changing field and help set the AI vision of the company.
• Spearhead the early adoption and utilization of novel and often immature technologies with long-term potential for Novo Nordisk.
• Update technical documents, attend team and external meetings, and actively participate in ideation of innovative solutions.

Qualifications

We are searching for a highly motivated and self-driven team player with excellent communications skills that help to successfully collaborate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates with Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence or Computer Science or similar field, with work experience in the field of AI or NLP and following qualifications:

• Contribution to generative-AI products currently in production.
• Proven, deep expertise in taking AI or NLP-based applications from idea to production.
• Python-based, AI-centric frontend technologies (Chainlit, Streamlit, etc.) experience.
• Experience with taking an AI-related startup or scaleup from the early stages to maturity, and AI agents and multi-agent systems.
• Fluency with CI/CD pipelines, preferably Github Actions.
• DevOps and deployment orchestrators, preferably Kubernetes.
• Deep expertise with Docker-based development environments and deployments.
• Proficiency in MS Azure and Amazon AWS, and especially their AI offerings (Azure OpenAI and Bedrock). 
• Familiarity with Terraform and/or cloud agnostic IaC.
• Experience with Google Cloud, Vector Databases, Semantic Search and Language Models would be a bonus. 

About the Department

Our department comprises four key teams: AI Engineering, AI Enablement, Responsible AI, and Intelligent Automation, collaborating on everything from AI innovation and infrastructure to deploying cutting-edge AI products. Our work spans research, commercial, and production environments, with a core focus on industrialising and democratising AI across Novo Nordisk, as part of the Global Data & AI area. We leverage scalable data platforms, MLOps, reference architectures, and modular components across the entire data and ML lifecycle. We are cloud-native, primarily working with Databricks, AWS and MS Azure. We embrace agility, diverse thinking, and continuous learning, fostering a culture of feedback, honesty, and fun.

Working at Novo Nordisk 

Novo Nordisk is its people. We know that life is anything but linear and balancing what is important at different stages of our career is never easy. That’s why we make room for diverse life situations, always putting people first. We value our employees for the unique skills they bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk is working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it’s a collective effort. Together, we go further. Together, we’re life changing.

What We Offer

• Bonus: We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached, you’ll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.
• Your workplace: Our offices will be your primary workplace but with flexibility to work 2-3 days at home during your working week. 
• Pension: a market leading pension scheme with generous employer contributions
• Wellness: We want you to be your best self, so you’ll have access to an award-winning Wellness programme, including Private Medical Insurance.
• Insurances: All colleagues are covered by our private medical, life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.
• Inclusive culture: our culture is one of care, support and respect for our people.  We are committed to making your workplace safe and believe that a transparent, inclusive culture and leadership is the way to empower every individual to do their very best.

Application Support 

We are an equal opportunities employer, and we commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.  If you're a person with a disability, if you're neurodivergent, and need any adjustments to be made during the application and selection process, please send an email to akrw@novonordisk.com.  Please include your name, the role you are interested in and the type of adjustment your need.  

Contact 

Please to apply to the role via our careers site as unfortunately we don’t accept directly sent resumes. 

Deadline 

Please apply before end of 7th July 2025

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants. 

At Novo Nordisk we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.