Software Engineer - II, AI/ML

At Bristol Myers Squibb, our employees often ask, “Who are you working for?”—a question that fuels collaboration, accountability, and urgency in our work. Our purpose-driven culture inspires us to discover, develop, and deliver innovative medicines to prevail over serious diseases. We offer uniquely interesting and meaningful work, opportunities for growth, and a supportive environment that values inclusion, wellbeing, flexibility, and comprehensive benefits. This is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it.

Role Overview

As a Software Engineer II, AI/ML, you will design, build, and deploy Generative AI and machine learning solutions that power enterprise applications — from intelligent assistants and RAG-based systems to agentic workflow automation — working across the full AI pipeline from data ingestion to production inference.

Key Responsibilities

• Build Generative AI features for enterprise applications, including text generation, summarization, and RAG-based intelligent assistants

• Design and orchestrate multi-agent AI systems that automate complex workflows and decision-making

• Design, train, and deploy machine learning models to solve classification, regression, NLP, and other business problems

• Own AI pipelines end-to-end, from data ingestion through model inference and serving

• Evaluate and monitor model and agent performance in production, iterating based on results

• Write clean, scalable, production-ready code and maintain source control and CI/CD workflows

• Partner with cross-functional teams in an Agile/Scrum environment to ship AI capabilities

Desired Experience

Generative AI & LLM Applications

• Experience developingGenerative AI solutions using large language models (LLMs) for enterprise use cases such as text generation, summarization, andRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

• Experience building intelligent assistants and conversational AI applications powered by LLMs

• Familiarity with vector databases for RAG retrieval, such asAWS OpenSearch,pgVector, orDatabricks AI Search

Agentic AI & Orchestration

• Experience implementingAgentic AI systems using multi-agent frameworks to automate complex workflows and decision-making pipelines

• Hands-on experience withLangChain andLangGraph for orchestration and agentic workflow development

• Experience usingPydantic AI for structured data validation and AI model integration

Machine Learning

• Experience designing, building, and deployingmachine learning models for classification, regression, NLP, and other AI use cases

• Hands-on experience withScikit-learn,NumPy,Pandas,PyTorch, andTensorFlow/Keras

AI Pipelines & Evaluation

• Experience building and maintainingAI pipelines spanning data ingestion, model inference, and serving

• Familiarity with evaluation and observability tools such asLangSmith,MLflow, orWeights & Biases

• Familiarity with LLM platforms such asAzure OpenAI,AWS Bedrock, orGoogle Vertex AI

Software Engineering & Tools

• Experience writing clean, scalable, production-ready code inPython

• Experience usingVS Code or similar IDEs, and leveraging AI coding tools such asGitHub Copilot andClaude Code to accelerate development productivity

• Experience managing source code, branching strategies, and CI/CD workflows usingGitHub

Collaboration & Process

• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams followingAgile/Scrum methodologies

Good to Have

• Experience developing and managing data pipelines, ML workflows, and AI applications on theDatabricks platform

• Experience building or contributing to internal AI-powered web applications usingReactJS

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field, with 3+ years of progressively responsible experience in an IT technical role

• Experience developing and deploying ML solutions using core libraries and frameworks includingScikit-learn,NumPy,Pandas,PyTorch,TensorFlow/Keras

• Experience working on GenAI and Agentic frameworks such asLangChain,LangGraph,Pydantic AI,LlamaIndex

• Familiarity with LLM platforms such asAzure OpenAI,AWS Bedrock,Google Vertex AI

We hire for skills and capabilities, not just credentials – if this role excites you, but doesn’t perfectly match your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway.

How We Work

Where you work matters – because collaboration, innovation and patient impact happen in many settings. Our roles are structured across four work models: site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design. The model assigned to this role is based on its core responsibilities. Learn more athttps://careers.bms.com/ways-of-working.

Supporting People with Disabilities

BMS is dedicated to ensuring that people with disabilities can excel through a transparent recruitment process, reasonable workplace accommodations/adjustments and ongoing support in their roles. Applicants can request a reasonable workplace accommodation/adjustment prior to accepting a job offer. If you require reasonable accommodations/adjustments in completing this application, or in any part of the recruitment process, direct your inquiries to adastaffingsupport@bms.com. Visit careers.bms.com/eeo-accessibility to access our complete Equal Employment Opportunity statement.

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