Sr Associate Software Engineer Applied AI

At Amgen if you feel like youre part of something bigger its because you are. Our shared missionto serve patients living with serious illnessesdrives all that we do.

Since 1980 weve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the worlds toughest diseases. With our focus on four therapeutic areas Oncology Inflammation General Medicine and Rare Disease we reach millions of patients each year. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline of medicines to treat cancer heart disease inflammatory conditions rare diseases and obesity and obesity-related conditions. As a member of the Amgen team youll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research manufacture and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer fuller happier lives.

Our award-winning culture is collaborative innovative and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them youll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

Sr Associate Software Engineer Applied AI

Lets do this. Lets change the this vital role you will join a fun innovative Applied AI team within the AI & Data Science (AI&D) organization at Amgen.

As a Sr Associate Software Engineer you will be an integral member of the Applied AI AI Productivity/Custom GPT Solutions Practice team which empowers Amgen teams and staff members to build highvalue purposedriven LLM-powered AI Assistants and/or Custom GPTs through expert design and development support. You will play a key role in driving adoption of this program across multiple Amgen organizations by partnering with crossfunctional teams and senior leaders. This role requires strong technical depth adaptability and the ability to operate effectively in a fastevolving environment.

The primary responsibility of this role is to design develop and deploy secure scalable and intuitive AI agents Custom GPTs and associated AI capabilities on leading enterprise AI platforms and tools.

Responsibilities:

GenAI/AI Delivery:

• Design develop and deploy LLM-powered Agents and/or Custom GPTs on ChatGPT Enterprise platform that leverage RAG pipelines Apps integration and prompt engineering.
• Contribute to the capability Roadmap through implementation of MCP-based Apps ChatGPT Skills Plugins and Workspace Agents.
• Implement scalable RAG pipelines that ground assistant responses in trusted enterprise data.
• Build integration layers and event-driven orchestrations using N8N (webhooks nodes APIs) to connect systems trigger agent workflows and implement human-in-the-loop steps.
• Evaluate emerging AI models enterprise platforms agent frameworks retrieval technologies and orchestration patterns including OpenAI Databricks LangChain/LangGraph and AWS AI services.
• Ensure compliance with data privacy security and regulatory standards of the company.
• Implement automated evaluation regression testing tracing and monitoring to assess retrieval quality context response quality safety latency and cost.
• Apply relevant advancements in generative AI agentic systems retrieval evaluation and AI software engineering to continuously improve solution quality and delivery practices.

Collaboration & Enablement:

• Work closely with functional teams product owners data engineers platform and DevOps teams and business SMEs to translate requirements into reliable production-grade solutions.
• Produce clear technical design documents runbooks and handover materials to support operational sustainability.
• Support office hours and other technical enablement sessions.
• Support junior engineers and contribute towards technical guidance reusable patterns and engineering best practices for GenAI adoption

We are all different yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional we seek is a person with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications

• Masters degree with 4 years of experience in Computer Science IT or a related field OR
• Bachelors degree with 6 years of experience in Computer Science IT or a related field.
• 4 years of professional experiencein software development and system design.
• 2 years of hands-on experiencebuilding & deploying Generative AI applications Assistants or Custom GPTs in production centered around OpenAI(preferred) Claude or Gemini.
• 2 years of hands-on experiencedesigning and building cloud-native solutions (preferably on AWS using services like Amazon Bedrock AWS Lambda Amazon EKS)
• 2 years of hands-on experiencewith vector databases embedding models and RAG pipelines.
• Experience designing and implementing secure RESTful integrations using API gateways OAuth service identities and enterprise authentication patterns.
• Experience effectively using AI-assisted software development tools such as OpenAI Codex Claude Code and GitHub Copilot while applying appropriate code-review security and quality controls.
• 2 years of hands-on experience building modern web applications using TypeScript React and with strong knowledge of component-driven architecture design systems REST/GraphQL integration state management automated testing performance optimization and modern CI/CD practices.
• Strong programming skills in Python and familiarity with GenAI libraries (Transformers LangChain Hugging Face etc.).
• Ability to work effectively with global distributed teams using Scaled Agile methodologies.
• Strong problemsolving skills and the ability to perform effectively in a fastpaced environment.

Preferred Skills:

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• High degree of initiative and selfmotivation with a servantleadership mindset.
• Ability to work under minimal supervision while delivering highquality outcomes.
• Excellent analytical gap and fitassessment skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities successfully.
• Teamoriented with a strong focus on achieving shared goals.
• Experience working with Power Automate Uipath Tableau JIRA and Smartsheet.
• 2 years of experience with Agentic AI platforms and frameworks (Langchain AWS Bedrock Uipath Maestro).
• Familiarity with GxP environments and systems validation.
• Experience working in regulated industries such as biotech or healthcare.

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others we also work to care for your professional and personal growth and well-being. From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture well support your journey every step of the way.

In addition to the base salary Amgen offers competitive and comprehensive Total Rewards Plans that are aligned with local industry standards.

As an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for people around the world Amgen fosters an inclusive environment of diverse ethical committed and highly accomplished people who respect each other and live the Amgen values to continue advancing science to serve patients. Together we compete in the fight against serious disease.

Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin protected veteran status disability status or any other basis protected by applicable law.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process to perform essential job functions and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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