AI Platform Engineer for Enterprise GenAI

AbbVie; North Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits package

Short-term incentive programs

Job summary

AbbVie is seeking a Software Engineer to support an enterprise AI platform. The role is hands-on, building, enhancing, testing, and supporting production-ready AI capabilities used across scientific, clinical, commercial, and operational areas.

You will collaborate with senior engineers, product owners, architects, security partners, and data teams to deliver reliable features, improve developer experience, and ensure governed AI solutions in a large enterprise environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree with relevant software engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience building or supporting software applications, APIs, cloud-based services, data pipelines, or AI/ML-enabled solutions.
• Experience with one or more programming languages such as Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, or similar; familiarity with cloud platforms, containers, APIs, or enterprise integration patterns is preferred.
• Ability to learn quickly, solve ambiguous technical problems, collaborate across teams, and communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Develop, test, and maintain AI platform capabilities, including APIs, backend services, user-facing workflows, automation scripts, and integration components that support enterprise generative AI use cases.
• Contribute to reusable engineering patterns for prompt management, retrieval-augmented generation, model routing, evaluation, observability, and secure access to enterprise data and tools.
• Work with product owners, senior engineers, architects, and business stakeholders to understand requirements, clarify user needs, estimate work, and deliver practical, maintainable solutions.
• Support AI platform onboarding and adoption by helping teams troubleshoot issues, interpret platform guidance, improve documentation, and apply approved development patterns.
• Assist with quality engineering activities, including unit testing, integration testing, user acceptance testing, defect resolution, and validation evidence needed for controlled enterprise environments.
• Help operate and improve AI platform production services by monitoring reliability, investigating incidents, resolving support tickets, and identifying opportunities to simplify or automate recurring support needs.
• Follow AbbVie standards for secure software delivery, responsible AI, privacy, GxP awareness, data protection, change management, and the software development lifecycle.
• Communicate progress, risks, tradeoffs, and technical findings clearly to teammates and stakeholders; elevate issues appropriately and contribute to a collaborative engineering culture.

Skills

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

Java

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

APIs

Data engineering

AI/ML engineering

Security awareness

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Git

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

AbbVie is seeking a Software Engineer to support an enterprise AI platform. The role is hands-on, building, enhancing, testing, and supporting production-ready AI capabilities used across scientific, clinical, commercial, and operational areas.

You will collaborate with senior engineers, product owners, architects, security partners, and data teams to deliver reliable features, improve developer experience, and ensure governed AI solutions in a large enterprise environment.