Principal AI Engineer
Bristol Myers SquibbResponsibilities
- Design, build, and deploy autonomous multi-agent workflows with conditional routing, parallel execution, state management, task decomposition, and error recovery.
- Architect graph-based agent workflows with 10+ nodes and develop reusable agent node libraries, platform patterns, versioning strategies, and workflow testing frameworks.
- Build asynchronous FastAPI applications integrating PostgreSQL, Redis, external enterprise services, streaming protocols, and event-driven APIs.
- Integrate AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, and OpenAI GPT-4 with prompt management, tool calling, and external data-source integrations.
- Implement Redis checkpointing, Model Context Protocol, function calling, agent-to-agent communication, hybrid intelligence, and analytical response transformation pipelines.
- Implement Langfuse or LangSmith observability, agent tracing, telemetry, evaluation frameworks, performance monitoring, and LLM cost optimization.
- Ensure LDAP, SSO, access control, error handling, data governance, security, compliance, and Responsible AI standards across solutions.
- Collaborate with data engineers, business analysts, UX teams, senior engineers, data scientists, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable agent workflows and streaming interfaces.
- Mentor junior engineers, participate in architecture reviews, and contribute to technical documentation and knowledge sharing.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, AI/ML, Engineering, Data Science, or a related discipline.
- 9+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years building and deploying production LLM-powered applications.
- Expert-level asynchronous Python programming, including asyncio and async/await patterns.
- Production experience with agentic orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain, CrewAI, or Autogen.
- Experience with cloud LLM providers including AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, or OpenAI GPT-4.
- Experience building autonomous multi-step agent systems with conditional logic, state management, tool calling, ReAct, Plan-and-Execute, and tool-use patterns.
- Experience with Model Context Protocol and agent-to-agent communication frameworks.
- Experience with FastAPI, Docker, Git, CI/CD pipelines, and AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Familiarity with LLMOps, Langfuse or LangSmith, prompt engineering at scale, prompt templating, versioning, and optimization.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and distributed-team collaboration skills.
- Global life sciences experience, particularly in the GPS functional area, is preferred.
- Experience managing or collaborating with offshore technical development teams and diverse international stakeholders is preferred.
Benefits
- Bristol Myers Squibb offers competitive benefits, services, and programs supporting employees’ professional and personal goals.
- Work location follows BMS’s occupancy structure, which may require fully onsite work, at least 50% onsite hybrid work, or field-based or remote-by-design work depending on the assigned role.
- Employees receive opportunities for growth and meaningful work supporting patient-focused science and innovation.
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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