Principal AI Engineer
Bristol Myers SquibbResponsibilities
- Design, build, and deploy autonomous multi-agent workflows with complex graph-based orchestration, conditional routing, parallel execution, state management, and error recovery.
- Architect agent workflows with 10 or more nodes across multiple business domains and develop reusable agent node libraries, platform patterns, versioning strategies, and testing frameworks.
- Build production FastAPI applications using async I/O, PostgreSQL, Redis, enterprise service integrations, RESTful APIs, event-driven architectures, Server-Sent Events, and WebSockets.
- Integrate AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, and OpenAI GPT-4, including prompt management systems with templating, versioning, and dynamic compilation.
- Implement Redis-based conversation state persistence, Model Context Protocol and function-calling integrations, and agent-to-agent communication patterns.
- Develop hybrid intelligence and response-transformation pipelines combining LLM reasoning, rule-based logic, and statistical analysis.
- Implement Langfuse or LangSmith observability, agent tracing, telemetry, performance monitoring, evaluation frameworks, and LLM cost optimization.
- Integrate LDAP, SSO, access controls, data governance, enterprise security, and Responsible AI practices.
- Collaborate with data engineers, business analysts, UX teams, and international stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable workflows and streaming interfaces.
- Mentor junior engineers, participate in architecture reviews, and contribute to documentation and knowledge sharing.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, AI/ML, Engineering, Data Science, or a related discipline.
- 9 or more years of software engineering experience, including 2 or more years building and deploying production LLM-powered applications.
- Expert-level async Python programming, including asyncio and async/await patterns.
- Production experience with agent orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain, CrewAI, or Autogen, with LangGraph preferred.
- Experience with cloud LLM providers such as AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, or OpenAI GPT-4.
- Experience building autonomous multi-step agent systems with conditional logic, state management, and tool-calling patterns.
- Experience with FastAPI, Docker, Git, cloud platforms, and production application development.
- Experience implementing Model Context Protocol and agent-to-agent communication frameworks.
- Familiarity with LLMOps, Langfuse or LangSmith, prompt engineering at scale, prompt templating, versioning, and optimization.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills in globally distributed teams.
- Global life sciences or GPS functional-area experience is preferred but not required.
- Experience managing or collaborating with offshore technical development teams and diverse international stakeholders is preferred but not required.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits, supportive and inclusive culture, wellbeing support, growth opportunities, and flexible work models.
- The role follows the work model assigned by its core responsibilities among site-essential, site-by-design, field-based, and remote-by-design arrangements.
- Workplace accommodations and ongoing support are available for applicants and employees 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