AI Engineer

AbbVie Inc.; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Health insurance

401(k)

Job summary

AbbVie Inc. is seeking an entry-level AI Engineer to support the design, build, and deployment of AI-enabled software solutions, including LLM-powered apps and RAG pipelines.

The role emphasizes learning, collaboration, and delivering reliable technical outputs under supervision. You will work with Python, SQL, and REST APIs, contribute to model-serving and containerized deployments, and assist with data processing, testing, and documentation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field as listed.
• Strong communication and ability to explain results to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with Python, SQL, and web APIs is preferred.
• Familiarity with version control, testing, and code quality practices.

Responsibilities

• Assist design, build, and deploy AI-enabled software solutions including LLM-powered apps.
• Support development of AI features and fix straightforward defects under supervision.
• Build components of LLM-based pipelines and integration workflows.
• Transform and analyze data with Python/SQL; create basic ETL and visualizations.
• Execute unit tests and basic model evaluations; reproduce issues.
• Serve models and AI services via REST APIs and containerized environments.
• Track experiments, model versions, and contribute to CI/CD processes.
• Document methods, results, and escalation steps in tickets.
• Learn codebase and workflows through pairing and code reviews.
• Communicate progress and risks to project leads.

Skills

Problem solving

Communication

Documentation reading

Code review collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics

Tools

Python

SQL

REST/API

FastAPI/Flask

Git/GitHub

Docker

Jupyter

Pandas/NumPy

ML/DL basics

Job description

Company Description

About AbbVie

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio.

For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.

Job Description

This entry-level AI Engineer will work under close supervision to apply developing technical knowledge in Software Engineering and Generative AI, performing analytic, testing, modeling, and development tasks on smaller projects, and independently on larger, more complex assignments. The role will help design, build, and deploy AI-enabled software solutions, including LLM-powered applications, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, and model-serving APIs, to meet business requirements.

Responsibilities

• Perform assigned technical and analytic tasks using established methods and tools, documents methods and results, and elevate novel or ambiguous issues.
• Support development of AI-enabled applications and fix straightforward defects under close supervision.
• Build and maintain components of LLM-based solutions, including API integrations, prompt and tool/function-calling workflows, and basic RAG pipelines (chunking, embeddings, vector search).
• Clean, transform, and analyze data with Python, SQL, and data libraries; build simple ETL steps and visualizations.
• Execute assigned test cases, including unit tests and basic retrieval or model evaluations, and help reproduce reported issues.
• Serve models and AI services through RESTAPIs and containers, prepare simple configuration changes, and follow deployment runbooks.
• Track experiments and model versions and support monitoring and CI/CD processes.
• Document work and escalation steps in tickets and knowledge base entries.
• Learn codebase, development workflows, and platform fundamentals through pairing and code reviews.
• Produce reliable technical outputs, follow quality and safety standards (including AI guardrails), document reproducible methods and records, and communicate progress and risks to project leads.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or relevant STEM certification.
• Problem decomposition, clear communication, reading documentation, collaborating through code review, and explaining results to non-technical people.
• Python and Software Fundamentals
  • Core language: data types, control flow, functions, OOP, comprehensions, generators, decorators, exceptions, file I/O, virtual environments (venv, pip / uv)
  • Data libraries: NumPy, pandas (cleaning, joins, groupby, time series)
  • Visualization: Matplotlib, Seaborn, Plotly
  • Code quality: type hints, unit testing (pytest), logging, PEP 8, packaging
  • APIs and web: requests, REST concepts, FastAPI or Flask to serve models, async basics
  • Tooling: Git/GitHub, Jupyter, VS Code, Docker basics
• Databases
  • SQL (essential): SELECT, WHERE, JOINs, GROUP BY, HAVING, subqueries, CTEs, window functions, indexes, query optimization
  • Relational databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, or SQLite; schema design, normalization, primary and foreign keys, transactions
  • Python connectivity: SQLAlchemy, psycopg2, pandas.read_sql
  • NoSQL: MongoDB (documents), Redis (caching)
  • Vector databases (AI-specific): embeddings, similarity search, and tools such as pgvector, Chroma, FAISS, Pinecone
  • Data pipelines: ETL basics, data warehouses, Airflow concepts
• Modern GenAI Skills
  • LLM APIs: Anthropic, OpenAI, structured outputs, tool/function calling
  • RAG: chunking, embeddings, vector search, retrieval evaluation
  • Frameworks: LangChain or LlamaIndex (know the basics, but understand what's underneath)
  • Agents: tool use, multi-step workflows, basic evaluation, and guardrails
• MLOps and Deployment
  • Model serving: FastAPI, Docker
  • Experiment tracking: MLflow, Weights & Biases
  • Cloud basics: AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • CI/CD basics, monitoring, model versioning

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employer remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

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