Custom Software Developer - RDT Pharma R&D

Description

The team is a global group of business-minded technologists within the company's digital technology function. They use AI, data and scalable technology to shape the company's digital future in healthcare.

This is a senior hands-on role for a software developer who owns tasks, sets a high bar for quality and works as a go-to expert for the team.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy and scale multi-agent orchestration systems and autonomous workflows using current frameworks.
• Build and tune retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines over large, mixed structured and unstructured datasets.
• Implement state handling, short- and long-term memory, and self-correction loops within agent networks.
• Create evaluation metrics, observability pipelines and guardrails covering content quality, hallucinations, bias and safety.
• Monitor and improve AI inference cost, latency, throughput, token usage and overall system reliability.
• Put in place access controls, data encryption, user authentication and protection against prompt injection across all LLM workflows.
• Document and share reusable agent patterns, prompt libraries and engineering components with technical teams across the company.
• Lead the design, build and upkeep of scalable data pipelines, taking projects from start to deployment on your own.
• Solve complex data ingestion and processing problems and tune data flows for better performance and reliability.
• Work directly with business units and data scientists to clarify data needs and connect technical work with business goals.
• Own large data engineering initiatives that modernise and strengthen the organisation's data infrastructure.
• Bring together many different data sources into efficient, secure flows across platforms.
• Take on work beyond the usual project scope, mentor colleagues, and align development plans with the global strategy.
• Challenge the status quo, design complex software, reduce technical debt and improve the software delivery process.
• Speak at and help organise knowledge-sharing events such as DevOps Days and tech talks.

Requirements

• A bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, software engineering or a related technical field.
• At least 4 years of professional software development experience.
• Strong full-stack skills with hands-on work in LLM frameworks, agentic architectures and advanced RAG pipelines.
• You take ownership of complex architecture problems, tackle technical debt and drive software delivery from end to end.
• You communicate well, enjoy mentoring peers and share knowledge across cross-functional teams.
• You are curious, willing to question existing approaches, and keen to adopt new AI technologies and match development practices to global strategy.
• Preferred: familiarity with cloud services and DevOps practices.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work with both technical audiences such as data scientists and non-technical business stakeholders.
• Extensive experience in pharma or biotech, designing data pipelines that meet GxP (GCP, GMP, GVP), data integrity principles and computer system validation (CSV).
• Proven ability to build scalable solutions in regulated R&D, aligned with clinical, regulatory and safety milestones.
• Skill in spotting bottlenecks, removing operational silos and streamlining fragmented workflows into automated solutions.

Conditions

The hybrid model combines flexibility with in-person work. You are expected in the office on average two days per week, and office days may change for workshops, conferences, town halls, team meetings and other collaborative events.

The expected salary range for this role at the primary location, Warsaw Grafit, is 170,100.00 PLN to 315,900.00 PLN. Final pay depends on factors such as your skills, experience, qualifications and location.

The role may also include a discretionary annual bonus with a target of 15%, based on both individual and company performance.

The company is an equal opportunity employer.

Benefits

• A salary range of 14,175 to 26,325 PLN gross, based on the employment contract.
• An annual performance-based bonus.
• A dedicated training budget for courses, certifications, conferences and different career paths.
• Recharge Fridays, with 2 Fridays off per quarter available.
• A Take Time programme allowing up to 3 months of leave for any purpose.
• A vacation subsidy.
• Flex Location, which allows you to work from different places around the world for a set period.
• Up to 2 weeks of paid leave for charity work of your choice.
• Private healthcare through LuxMed packages, group life insurance through UNUM, and Multisport.
• Opportunities to buy company shares, plus yearly sales of company laptops and cars, and more.