2027 Future Talent Program - Computer Scientist - Agentic & Augmented Authoring Systems - Co-op

We seek a talented and motivated Computer Science Co-op to join our team for a six-month role. This position will contribute to our efforts to develop an agentic, augmented authoring system supporting Nonclinical Drug Safety (NDS). The goal of this effort is to drive towards a "zero-draft" process that retrieves, combines, and formats key data from structured, semi-structured, and unstructured sources into a consistent template for our scientists. The ideal candidate will actively participate in regular sprints to design and refine agents, propose creative solutions to agent-based workflows, and work closely with scientific and operational SMEs.

In this role, you will be a valued contributor to a visible and necessary effort aimed at modernizing how nonclinical safety fulfills its critical role in the development of safe medicines for our patients. Your work will help produce stable, reliable, and consistent AI-driven pipelines that accelerate our reporting timelines and build technology at the cutting edge of our field.

The ideal candidate will have experience with the principles of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in addition to agent-based concepts including orchestration frameworks (such as LangChain, CrewAI, LlamaIndex, or equivalent), tool calling, and API integration. Strong Python coding and documentation skills are essential. Familiarity with AWS and Google services, GitHub, LLMs, and vector databases is an additional advantage. Familiarity with nonclinical drug safety, report authoring, and summarization is a strong advantage.

Cutting-Edge Experience: Deep, hands-on experience building and deploying production-grade LLM agents and advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines.

Highly Valued Domain Knowledge: Practical knowledge of how to navigate enterprise data engineering and AI development within a secure, highly regulated healthcare environment.

Real-World Impact: A clear understanding of how modern generative AI accelerates drug safety reporting, directly shortening timelines to bring life-saving medicines to patients.

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