Senior Software Engineer - AI/ML
Bristol Myers SquibbResponsibilities
- Collaborate with IT partners and business teams to define requirements, solution options, user stories, and delivery outcomes.
- Design and develop generative AI solutions using LLMs for text generation, summarization, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, and intelligent assistants.
- Contribute to agentic AI systems using multi-agent frameworks to automate workflows and decision-making pipelines.
- Write clean, scalable, production-ready Python code and contribute to system architecture and design documentation.
- Design, deploy, test, train, retrain, evaluate, and fine-tune machine learning models and experiments.
- Support data processing, access, storage, governance, security, operations, dataset selection, and distributed processing and storage.
- Extend ML libraries and frameworks, contribute to proofs of concept, and consider user management, privacy, security, and performance.
- Break initiatives into epics and sprint-ready tasks and work in Agile/Scrum development environments.
- Evaluate platform choices and identify high-value capabilities and continuous improvement opportunities.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 4 years of experience in machine learning and/or AI engineering roles.
- Demonstrated experience with both traditional machine learning and generative AI techniques.
- Experience building and deploying production ML models with Scikit-learn, NumPy, Pandas, TensorFlow/Keras, and MLflow.
- Hands-on experience building generative AI applications, including prompt engineering and LLM integration.
- Experience with agent orchestration frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, or Claude Agent SDK.
- Familiarity with Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, or Google Vertex AI and vector databases such as pgVector or AWS OpenSearch.
- Experience evaluating and monitoring LLM or generative AI application quality with tools such as LangSmith.
- Experience gathering requirements, translating them into user stories, presenting solution tradeoffs, and communicating with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Working knowledge of Python, Git, JIRA, and Confluence in Agile/Scrum environments.
- Basic understanding of Claude capabilities, including skills, hooks, plugins, subagents, and MCP connectors, and use of Claude or similar agentic coding tools.
- Preferred experience includes Databricks, Databricks MLflow, Databricks AI Search, AWS SageMaker, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeBuild, or AWS CodeDeploy.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Benefits
- Bristol Myers Squibb offers comprehensive benefits, flexibility, wellbeing support, inclusion, career growth opportunities, and a supportive work environment.
- The role follows one of the company's work models—site-essential, site-by-design, field-based, or remote-by-design—with the assigned model based on core responsibilities.
- Workplace accommodations and ongoing support are available for people with disabilities.
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About Bristol Myers Squibb
At Bristol Myers Squibb, we work every day to transform patients’ lives through science. That work inspires some of the most interesting, meaningful, and life-changing careers you’ll experience. Join us and pursue innovative ideas alongside some of the brightest minds in biopharma, collaborating with a team rich in diversity of experiences, and perspectives. We have built a sustainable pipeline of potential therapies and are leveraging translational medicine and data analytics to understand how we can deliver the right medicine to the right patient, at the right time, to achieve the best outcome. Whether in a scientific, business or supporting function, a career at BMS means you’ll be inspired every day to grow and thrive through opportunities that are uncommon in scale and scope. Here, you’ll be on the cutting edge of powerful innovation in oncology, hematology, immunology, cardiovascular disease, and fibrosis, with colleagues united in the mission to help patients. Through the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation, we also promote health equity and seek to improve health outcomes of populations disproportionately affected by serious diseases and conditions. Our mission is to give new hope to help patients prevail over serious disease – it drives everything we do. Review our Social Media Community Guidelines at: https://www.bms.com/social-media-community-guidelines.html