Senior AI Application Engineer
Bristol Myers SquibbBase Salary
$151k - $183k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate backend services, APIs, application components, and MCP/FastMCP services for AI Accelerator products.
- Build LangGraph agent workflows, MCP tool integrations, retrieval, memory, context, semantic-layer, and governed knowledge-store capabilities.
- Develop AWS-native deployment patterns using storage, databases, containers, serverless services, identity, and infrastructure-as-code.
- Create CI/CD pipelines, automated tests, environment configuration, release processes, security scans, observability, evaluation tooling, and quality gates.
- Build secure sandboxed agent execution environments with provenance, data branching, version control, audit, and access-control workflows.
- Collaborate with AI, data, frontend, architecture, product, and pod teams through MVP delivery, technical reviews, and production-readiness activities.
- Provide technical coaching through design, code, and architecture reviews, documentation, incident learning, and reusable examples.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or higher degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Science, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, cloud engineering, platform engineering, or backend application development with increasing responsibility.
- Hands-on AWS cloud-native application development using services and patterns including S3, RDS/PostgreSQL, Athena, ElastiCache/Redis, OpenSearch, Fargate, Lambda, IAM, and VPC.
- Strong proficiency in Python, FastAPI, TypeScript/Node, or comparable backend frameworks.
- Experience with containers, CI/CD, GitHub-based workflows, automated testing, environment configuration, and infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation.
- Experience building LLM, RAG, or agentic AI applications with tools such as LangGraph, LangChain, PydanticAI, or Claude Agent SDK.
- Familiarity with MCP/FastMCP, vector databases, knowledge graphs, session and state management, structured-output validation, and evaluation-driven development.
- Experience with SQL, semantic layers, data warehouse context, query history, and governed data or context layers.
- Experience building sandboxed execution, data branching, provenance, version-control, audit, and access-control patterns.
- Experience integrating approved frontier LLM models through OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, AWS Bedrock, or similar enterprise AI services.
- Experience using coding agents or AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, or GitHub Copilot.
- Strong communication skills and comfort working in fast-moving, cross-functional agile teams; BMS also values experimentation with emerging AI technologies.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits may include wellbeing support, retirement and financial protection benefits, and medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
- U.S.-based exempt employees receive Flexible Time Off without a set accrual limit, subject to manager approval, and 11 paid company holidays.
- Eligible employees may receive paid sick leave, up to two paid volunteer days, summer-hours flexibility, various leaves of absence, and an annual Global Shutdown between Christmas Day and New Year's Day.
- The role is assigned one of BMS's site-essential, site-by-design, field-based, or remote-by-design work models based on core responsibilities.
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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