Principal AI Engineer II

BioSpace; North Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Health insurance

Dental/Vision insurance

401(k)

Job summary

AbbVie seeks a Principal AI Engineer II to define the AI strategy and architecture that scales across multiple business areas. You will lead the design of secure, reusable AI platforms and contribute to enterprise-wide AI adoption.

You will mentor engineers and collaborate with Quality, Regulatory, Legal, Privacy, and scientific teams to deliver compliant, business-ready AI solutions. This role is based in North Chicago, IL, with opportunities to influence at scale.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, deploying, and operating production-scale AI and machine learning systems.
• Experience working in a regulated environment, preferably pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare, medical device, or life sciences.
• Excellent communication and ability to influence senior leaders and diverse stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define and advance AI engineering strategy, architecture, standards, and roadmaps aligned with business and technology objectives.
• Architect and build secure, scalable AI platforms, services, and components for enterprise adoption.
• Lead production-grade AI solutions from concept through deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
• Integrate AI platforms with AWS services and enterprise data, security, and infrastructure environments.
• Establish practices for testing, release management, observability, and incident response.

Skills

Strategic AI leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Production AI/ML systems

AWS cloud engineering

Security and compliance mindset

Mentoring engineers

Communication with senior leaders

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/AI/related

Master's degree

PhD

Job 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 atwww.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie onLinkedIn,Facebook,Instagram,XandYouTube.

Company Description

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 atwww.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie onLinkedIn,Facebook,Instagram,XandYouTube.

Job Description

As a discipline expert and technology leader, the Principal AI Engineer II will define and advance the strategy, architecture, and engineering practices required to develop, deploy, and scale artificial intelligence solutions across AbbVie. This role will investigate, identify, and implement state-of-the-art technology platforms that drive productivity and efficiency gains in own function and throughout multiple business areas. Technical leader acting at a group, department, and cross-functional levels. Responsible for managing the Data, Solutions, Business, and/or technology environments and tying them to the Enterprise Architecture and other architectures designs.

Responsibilities

• Define and advance AI engineering strategy, architecture, standards, and roadmaps aligned with AbbVies business and technology objectives.
• Architect and build secure, scalable, reusable AI platforms, services, developer tools, and components that support enterprise adoption.
• Lead production-grade AI solutions from ideation and prototyping through development, testing, validation, deployment, monitoring, continuous improvement, and retirement.
• Integrate AI platforms with AWS services and enterprise data, software, security, identity, and infrastructure environments.
• Establish practices for evaluation, testing, versioning, release management, observability, performance monitoring, incident response, and operational support.
• Apply risk-based approaches to compliance, GxP, data integrity, privacy, cybersecurity, documentation, traceability, human oversight, and responsible AI.
• Partner with Quality, Regulatory, Legal, Privacy, Information Security, scientific, technical, and business stakeholders to deliver fit-for-purpose solutions.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor, facilitate alignment, influence decisions without direct authority, and communicate complex tradeoffs and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, lead innovation and proof-of-concept efforts, and guide promising solutions into sustainable production capabilities.
• Mentor engineers, advance engineering maturity, promote knowledge sharing, and represent AbbVie in relevant technical communities and partner engagements.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelors degree with 9 years experience, Masters degree with 8 years experience, or PhD with 4 years in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Demonstrated experience designing, deploying, and operating production-scale AI and machine learning systems.
• Strong experience in AI/platform engineering, including scalable platforms, reusable components, and production-grade AI solutions.
• Demonstrated experience designing, building, deploying, and supporting solutions using AWS systems and services.
• Strong software and cloud engineering practices, including secure design, automated testing, CI/CD, containerization, monitoring, and operational support.
• Experience working in a regulated environment, preferably pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare, medical device, or life sciences.
• Experience supporting the full solution lifecycle, including feasibility, design, development, testing, validation, deployment, and ongoing operations.
• Strong understanding of risk management, validation, change control, data integrity, cybersecurity, privacy, documentation, and quality requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex stakeholders, influence technical and business decisions, and collaborate across organizational boundaries.
• Excellent communication skills with senior leaders, technical teams, scientific experts, business partners, and external collaborators.
• Demonstrated innovation and mentoring experience, including advancing engineering practices and delivering measurable impact.

Preferred

• Experience with enterprise AI governance, responsible AI, model validation, human oversight, and AI lifecycle management.
• Experience with MLOps and production engineering, including model evaluation, APIs, microservices, CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure as code.
• Open-source contributions or technical thought leadership through publications, patents, or industry working groups.
• Experience leading cross-functional product development from feasibility through validation and production implementation.
• Enterprise AI or platform experience, including AWS architecture, governance, security, and integration with enterprise environments.

Additional Information

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Companybelieves ingood faith it will pay for this role at the timeof this posting based on the job grade for this position.Individualcompensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, andwemayultimatelypaymore or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in thefuture.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick),medical/dental/visioninsurance and 401(k) to eligibleemployees.
• This job is eligible toparticipatein our long-term incentiveprograms.

Note: No amount of payis considered to bewages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, anddeterminable.The amount and availability of any bonus,commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form ofcompensation and benefitsthat are allocable to a particular employeeremainsin the Company's sole andabsolutediscretion unless and until paid andmay bemodifiedat the Companys sole and absolute discretion, consistent withapplicable law.

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