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At Perceptive, we help the\nbiopharmaceutical industry bring medical\ntreatments to the market, faster.\nOur mission is to change the world\nbut to do this, we need people like you.\nWhat can we offer you?\nApart from job satisfaction, we can offer you:\n YOURSELF\n25 days’ holiday (with the option to buy more)\nHEALTH\nHealth Cash Plan\nOptional private health, dental insurance, and health screens\nCycle to work scheme\nWEALTH\nGenerous pension scheme with up to 10% employer contribution\nLife assurance\nSeason ticket loan\nAbout the role\nAs Agentic AI Engineer, you will design, build, and operationalize agentic AI capabilities to increase automation, improve data quality, and accelerate decision-making within medical imaging clinical trials. This role focuses on building AI agents that can reliably execute workflows such as intake and validation of imaging data, metadata reconciliation, protocol-driven checks, quality control support, and structured extraction from multi-modal artifacts (DICOM, non-DICOM, reports, PDFs). In parallel, the role will help transform the company’s Product Development Life Cycle (PDLC) into an AI-driven lifecycle-enabling agentic workflows from Product Discovery (e.g., requirements synthesis, research, backlog shaping) to Delivery and Deployment (e.g., test generation, release readiness, documentation automation) through Production Operations (e.g., incident triage, observability insights, automated runbooks), while ensuring safety, compliance, traceability, and human oversight.\nKey Responsibilities\nC ross functional collaborations\nPartner with Product, Imaging Ops, Data Engineering, QA, Security, and Regulatory/Quality to identify high-value automation opportunities and define agentic AI use cases.\n\nTranslate clinical-trial imaging workflows and PDLC processes into agent-ready task models (inputs, outputs, constraints, guardrails, acceptance criteria).\n\nWork with SMEs to define quality rubrics, evaluation datasets, and human review workflows to validate agent outputs.\n\nSupport change management: help teams adopt agentic features with clear UX patterns, onboarding, and documentation.\n\nTechnical ownership\nPromote engineering best practices for agentic systems: reliability, observability, evaluation, reproducibility, and secure-by-design patterns.\n\nContribute to internal standards for: prompt/version control, agent tools/plugins, retrieval configuration, grounding/citations, and human-in-the-loop review.\n\nParticipate in design reviews and provide guidance on selecting frameworks and architectures.\n\nCoach peers through code reviews, pairing, demos, and knowledge-sharing sessions.\n\nAlgorithm and Software Development\nBuild agentic workflows (multi-step reasoning + tool use) that support imaging trial processes such as:\n\ndata intake and validation (DICOM/non-DICOM), metadata consistency checks\n\nprotocol-driven QC support and discrepancy detection\n\ndata completeness checks and structured issue creation\n\nautomated summarization of imaging packets and context generation for reviewers\n\nImplement retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) patterns grounded in controlled knowledge sources (SOPs, protocols, specs, runbooks), with traceability.\n\nDevelop evaluation harnesses for agent behavior: task success rate, hallucination/grounding checks, regression testing, and bias/failure-mode analysis.\n\nContribute production-quality code (APIs, services, pipelines) with strong testing, documentation, and maintainability.\n\nDeployment and integration (MLOps)\nPackage and deploy agentic services using approved cloud and SDLC patterns: CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, secret management, and environment promotion.\n\nImplement guardrails and controls: access control, tool permissions, sandboxing, content filtering, rate limits, and audit logging.\n\nBuild observability: traces, structured logs, evaluation telemetry, cost monitoring, and error analytics (agent runs, tool calls, retrieval hits, model performance).\n\nEnsure safe production operations: rollback strategies, feature flags, canary releases, and incident playbooks.\n\nInnovation & Research application\nStay current on agentic AI patterns (planning, tool use, memory, multi-agent coordination, structured outputs) and evaluate feasibility for regulated workflows.\n\nPrototype and validate new capabilities quickly, then harden into production-ready features.\n\nRun experiments comparing models, prompts, retrieval strategies, and agent architectures; document results and recommendations.\n\nIdentify opportunities to standardize and reuse agent components across clinical imaging workflows and PDLC automation.\n\nOther\nCarry out any other reasonable duties as requested.\n\nFunctional Competencies (Technical knowledge/Skills)\nStrong software engineering skills (clean architecture, APIs, testing, code reviews).\n\nSolid grounding in RAG and knowledge grounding patterns (chunking, embeddings, retrieval quality, citations/traceability).\n\nFamiliarity with MLOps / DevOps: CI/CD, monitoring, logging, secure deployment practices.\n\nData handling fundamentals: schema design, data validation, data lineage, and auditability.\n\nExposure to medical imaging concepts (DICOM, metadata, modality basics) and/or clinical trial workflows, preferred.\n\nWorking knowledge of regulated software expectations (validation mindset, audit trails, traceability), preferred.\n\nFamiliarity with privacy/security principles for sensitive data, preferred.\n\nStrong communication skills; can explain technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.\n\nComfortable working across teams and iterating with end users.\n\nBias for action: can prototype quickly and then productionize reliably.\n\nHigh ownership and accountability; pragmatic approach to risk and quality.\n\nExperience, Education, and Certifications\nSolid professional software engineering experience, including shipping production systems.\n\nExperience implementing LLM-based systems (agentic workflows, tool calling, structured outputs).\n\nPractical experience with evaluation of LLM/agent quality (offline tests + production telemetry).\n\nDemonstrated experience building or integrating AI-powered applications (LLMs, NLP, decision support, automation).\n\nExperience working in cross-functional environments with product and operational teams.\n\nDemonstrated experience designing systems with reliability and safety in mind (testability, monitoring, clear failure modes).\n\nExperience in healthcare/life sciences, clinical trials, imaging workflows, or regulated environments is a plus.\n\nMaster’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or related field or equivalent practical experience.\n\nMaster’s degree or relevant AI/ML specialization is a plus.\n\nCome as you are.\nWe're proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. 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