Staff, Full Stack Engineer
GSK is hiring a Staff, Full Stack Engineer. Level rates it ; you can apply on GSK.
Level's read on this job
- Builds AI ●●●● is how Level rates this software engineer role: the job is building AI systems.
- The posting mentions prompt engineering, RAG and fine tuning among its tools and skills.
- Level classes it as a lead role.
- GSK has 839 other open roles on Level.
- Posted in the last few days.
AI in this role
Job Purpose:
- Enterprise AI (EAI) builds AI products that combine real modelling work with user-facing applications, and ships them to production. Full Stack Engineers move across data, models, platforms, APIs and interfaces in a single workflow. In our operating model, digital workers do much of the hands-on build. They generate services, APIs, interface components and tests, run evaluations and monitor what is in production. Our engineers set the architecture and standards that work is built to, and own the quality of what ships.
- EAI products and agents draw on a governed context layer that makes data, meaning, permissions and history retrievable at the moment they are needed. Full Stack Engineers build the products and agents that consume it, and decide how that context reaches users.
- The Full Stack Engineer II independently builds and ships AI-integrated features, working closely with GSK business teams to prototype against real data and workflows at a days-to-weeks cadence. The role owns the quality of what digital workers deliver in those features, makes evidence-based calls on what to continue or stop, and contributes reusable components others adopt.
Responsibilities:
- Own use cases from problem framing through working prototype and first production version, at a days-to-weeks cadence and without close supervision.
- Qualify incoming asks: challenge underspecified problems, assess feasibility and define scope before committing to work. At the end of each piece of work, form and defend an evidence-based recommendation to continue or stop, presented clearly to business and EAI leadership.
- Work closely with business teams, prototyping against real data and workflows and building trusted relationships with product owners and engineering leads.
Required skills:
- 16+ years of overall professional experience & 10+ years of full-stack or AI/ML engineering experience, including production deployments.
- Demonstrated ability to take ideas from sketch to working software at speed, independently and under time pressure. A startup, lab or innovation-team background is an advantage.
- Strong proficiency in Python and at least one of TypeScript, JavaScript, Go or similar, with experience designing and shipping backend services and complete UI features.
- Hands-on experience with GenAI patterns: agents, multi-agent orchestration, RAG, tool use, prompt engineering and evaluation, including evaluation pipelines and LLM-specific monitoring in production.
- Daily use of AI coding agents as the primary mode of development, with sound judgement on what to accept, change or reject.
- A track record of raising team standards through code review and documentation, and of contributing reusable engineering patterns that others adopted.
Education :
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Preferred skills:
- Prior experience as a Full Stack Engineer, Customer Engineer or Solutions Architect, ideally at an AI-native company or hyperscaler.
- Experience in regulated industries, such as life sciences, healthcare or financial services, and familiarity with GxP, GDPR and SOX.
- Working knowledge of fine-tuning fundamentals and Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations.
Skills
Why GSK?
Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.
People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.
Inclusion at GSK:
As an employer committed to Inclusion, we encourage you to reach out if you need any adjustments during the recruitment process.
Please contact our Recruitment Team at IN.recruitment-adjustments@gsk.com to discuss your needs.
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How we rate this
Staff, Full Stack Engineer at GSK rates 83 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Builds AI (AI Level 4 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Builds AI. The job is building AI systems.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.
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- $167k
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Questions you could be asked
- How do you structure and test a prompt to get consistent output from a language model?
- How would you design a retrieval step so the model answers from real data instead of guessing?
- Walk me through fine-tuning a model: what data did you use, and how did you check the result?
- How do you decide that one model's output is better than another's for a given task?
- How would you decide a model or AI system is ready to ship?
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- List these exact terms on your resume: Prompt engineering, RAG, Fine-tuning, and AI Evaluation. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
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- Lead with what you built, trained or shipped. This role is judged on the AI system itself, not the tools around it.
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