Junior AI Engineer - LLM Apps & RAG Pipelines

AbbVie; North Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid time off

401(k) matching

Short-term incentive programs

Job summary

AbbVie invites applications for an entry-level AI Engineer to join a team that designs AI-enabled software, including LLM-powered applications and RAG pipelines. You will work under supervision to build, test, and deploy AI components, with a focus on Python, data processing, and API services.

You will learn to operate in a regulated environment, pair with senior engineers, and contribute to model serving, CI/CD, and monitoring initiatives across AbbVie platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's in CS/DS/Engineering/Math or STEM field.
• Strong communication and ability to explain results to non-technical people.
• Proficiency in Python and software fundamentals.
• Experience with data libraries (NumPy, pandas) and visualization.
• APIs and web: FastAPI/Flask; containerization with Docker.
• Git/GitHub for version control and collaboration.
• Databases: SQL and NoSQL; SQLAlchemy/psycopg2.
• Vector databases and RAG concepts.
• MLOps concepts: MLflow, CI/CD, model versioning.

Responsibilities

• Apply technical knowledge to design and deploy AI-enabled software.
• Develop LLM-powered apps and RAG pipelines; expose model services via REST APIs.
• Transform, analyze, and visualize data with Python and SQL.
• Build and test components; execute unit tests and simple model evaluations.
• Track experiments and support CI/CD and monitoring.
• Document work and communicate progress and risks to leads.
• Collaborate through code reviews and pairing to learn the codebase.

Skills

Python

NumPy

pandas

Visualization

REST APIs

FastAPI/Flask

Git/GitHub

Docker

Jupyter

VS Code

SQL

PostgreSQL/MySQL/SQLite

SQLAlchemy/psycopg2

NoSQL (MongoDB)

Vector databases (FAISS, Pinecone, pgv

ETL basics

MLflow/Weights & Biases

AWS/Azure/GCP

CI/CD basics

MLOps

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or relevant STEM certification

Relevant STEM certification

Tools

Git/GitHub

Jupyter

VS Code

Docker

FastAPI

Flask

SQLAlchemy

psycopg2

pandas.read_sql

MongoDB

FAISS/Pinecone

LangChain

LlamaIndex

MLflow

Airflow

FastAPI or REST

Docker basics

Job description

AbbVie invites applications for an entry-level AI Engineer to join a team that designs AI-enabled software, including LLM-powered applications and RAG pipelines. You will work under supervision to build, test, and deploy AI components, with a focus on Python, data processing, and API services.

You will learn to operate in a regulated environment, pair with senior engineers, and contribute to model serving, CI/CD, and monitoring initiatives across AbbVie platforms.