# Forward Deployed Engineer, China R&D IT

About the role The Forward Deployed Engineer builds working proofs of concept (POCs) in weeks, so that the decision to invest in a production build rests on evidence. You sit with business users in R&D China, understand the problem first-hand, and build something they can try. Our landscape has several vendor systems, different IT stacks and many small new projects. Vendors build production workloads following AZ guidelines. Your job comes before that: prove quickly whether an idea works, what it takes, and what the risks are, then hand over cleanly to the vendor. The scope is AI, data and software alike. One month you may connect two vendor systems, the next build a data pipeline or an LLM application. You are supported by enterprise architecture for standards, the cloud team for infrastructure, PMs for process and product owners for direction. Key responsibilities Build proofs of concept Build working POCs for AI, data and software ideas within an agreed time box, typically 2 to 6 weeks. Agree written success criteria with the product owner before building, and measure the POC against them. Choose the simplest approach that answers the question: configure, integrate, script or bu

- **Id**: 4187488
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/astrazeneca-forward-deployed-engineer-china-rd-it>
- **Role**: Solutions
- **Role family**: Solutions
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Shanghai, China
- **Countries**: CN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T18:41:57Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T18:41:57Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 9380
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Prescription Drugs, Oncology Therapeutics, Rare Disease Therapeutics, Cardiometabolic Therapeutics

## Company

- **Id**: 13195
- **Name**: AstraZeneca
- **Domain**: astrazeneca.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/astra-zeneca>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 94
- **Open postings**: 188
- **Ghost share**: 0.011
- **Stale share**: 0.356
- **Repost share**: 0.112
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 19
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Synthetic Data** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T18:41:57Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 19
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T21:22:32Z

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