Principal AI Engineer
Bristol Myers SquibbResponsibilities
- Design, build, and deploy autonomous multi-agent workflows with complex graph-based orchestration, state machines, conditional routing, parallel execution, and error recovery.
- Develop reusable agent node libraries, platform patterns, versioning strategies, and testing frameworks for agent workflows.
- Build production FastAPI applications with asynchronous I/O, PostgreSQL, Redis, enterprise integrations, RESTful APIs, event-driven architectures, Server-Sent Events, and WebSockets.
- Integrate AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, and OpenAI GPT-4, with versioned, templated, and dynamically compiled prompt management.
- Implement Redis-based conversation state persistence, Model Context Protocol and function-calling integrations, and agent-to-agent communication.
- Build hybrid intelligence and response transformation pipelines combining LLM reasoning, rule-based logic, and statistical analysis.
- Implement Langfuse or LangSmith observability for tracing, telemetry, monitoring, performance analysis, and cost optimization.
- Create evaluation frameworks for agent success rates, reasoning quality, output accuracy, token usage, and LLM costs.
- Ensure LDAP, SSO, access control, error handling, data governance, enterprise security, and Responsible AI compliance.
- Partner with data engineers, business analysts, and UX teams to deliver scalable agent workflows and streaming interfaces.
- Mentor junior engineers and participate in architecture reviews, 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 LangGraph, LangChain, CrewAI, Autogen, or similar agent orchestration frameworks.
- Experience with AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, OpenAI GPT-4, or similar cloud LLM providers.
- Experience building autonomous multi-step agent systems with conditional logic, state management, and tool-calling patterns.
- Experience with Model Context Protocol, agent-to-agent communication frameworks, prompt engineering at scale, LLMOps, and observability tooling.
- Experience with FastAPI, Docker, Git, CI/CD pipelines, and AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Strong understanding of ReAct, Plan-and-Execute, and tool-use agent design patterns.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills for globally distributed teams.
- Experience in global life sciences, particularly the GPS functional area, is preferred.
- Experience managing or collaborating with offshore technical development teams and international stakeholders is preferred.
Benefits
- Purpose-driven work developing medicines that help patients with serious diseases.
- Opportunities for growth in a supportive, inclusive, and wellbeing-focused environment.
- Comprehensive benefits and flexible work models including site-essential, site-by-design, field-based, and remote-by-design arrangements.
- Reasonable workplace accommodations and ongoing support are available for 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