ML Engineer – AI Studio (GenAI/NLP)

Amgen; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work models

Job summary

Amgen, a leader in biotech, seeks a Machine Learning Engineer for the AI Studio to design and deploy production AI components. You will own defined production elements, work on data pipelines, models, retrieval tools, and agent-based solutions across enterprise AI initiatives.

Ideal candidates bring strong Python/SQL, experience with GenAI, LangChain and cloud platforms, and a track record in building scalable AI services within a regulated environment.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or equivalent in CS/IT or related field.
• Bachelor’s degree with 2 years of CS/IT related experience.
• Associate’s degree with 6 years of CS/IT related experience.
• High school diploma / GED with 8 years of CS/IT related experience.

Responsibilities

• Define component boundaries, intended use, acceptance criteria, non-functional requirements, decision consequences, support expectations and technical estimates with product and architecture partners.
• Design and implement maintainable Python, SQL, API, data, model, retrieval, agent-tool and workflow components with clear contracts, configuration, testing, error handling and documentation.
• Apply EDA, feature engineering, supervised or unsupervised methods, baselines, cross-validation, leakage prevention, calibration, subgroup, threshold, explainability and error analysis where relevant.
• Build GenAI, NLP, RAG and bounded agent components using structured output, embeddings, hybrid search, reranking, provenance, citations, permissions, approvals, retries and recoverable failure behaviour.
• Engineer batch or event-driven data, document, feature, embedding, label and evaluation pipelines with schema validation, lineage, provenance, access control and consistency checks.
• Define representative evaluation for model quality, uncertainty, retrieval, grounding, citations, task success, tool correctness, safety, latency, cost and user impact.

Skills

Python programming

SQL querying

APIs

MLOps

Cloud computing

GenAI

Education

Master’s degree

Bachelor’s degree with 2 years CS/IT experience

Associate’s degree with 6 years CS/IT experience

High school diploma / GED with 8 years CS/IT experience

Tools

Python

SQL

APIs

Spark/Databricks

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Hugging Face

AWS

Job description

Amgen, a leader in biotech, seeks a Machine Learning Engineer for the AI Studio to design and deploy production AI components. You will own defined production elements, work on data pipelines, models, retrieval tools, and agent-based solutions across enterprise AI initiatives.

Ideal candidates bring strong Python/SQL, experience with GenAI, LangChain and cloud platforms, and a track record in building scalable AI services within a regulated environment.