Senior AI Platform & ML Ops Architect

AbbVie; North Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 142,000 - 269,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan

Medical/dental/vision insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

AbbVie is seeking a Principal AI Operations Engineer within the Business Technology Solutions (BTS) group in the United States. The role emphasizes end-to-end ML/AI engineering, platform operations, and scalable AI delivery across Bath teams.

You will architect patterns, implement registries and observability, and drive adoption of CI/CD, feature stores, and cloud-native ML pipelines. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to operationalize ML/AI, work with tools like SageMaker,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 9+ years of experience, or equivalent
• Experience in ML/AI engineering, data science, or AI platform engineering
• Strong SQL, Python, Spark, and ML frameworks knowledge
• Experience architecting with analytics/data science platforms
• Experience with data lakes like Iceberg or Delta
• 2+ years in GenAI app development and LLM-based architectures
• 3+ years cloud deployment (AWS/Azure) with large datasets and streaming data

Responsibilities

• Architect patterns to accelerate AI delivery and model deployment
• Develop and configure model registries and experiment tracking
• Set up model drift detection and observability
• Create reusable project templates and CICD workflows for ML/AI projects
• Set up feature stores and online feature serving
• Design cloud architectures for ML/AI problems
• Enforce data/code quality, reproducibility, and compliance
• Lead projects with minimal supervision and guidance
• Familiar tools: SageMaker, Databricks, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Iceberg/Delta, JIRA, CI/CD, cloud platforms, LLMs, MLFlow

Skills

ML/AI Engineering

SQL

Python

Spark

LLM/GenAI

Cloud architecture

Data science

Model registry

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

PhD

Tools

SageMaker

Databricks

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Iceberg

Delta

JIRA

CI/CD

MLFlow

Job description

AbbVie is seeking a Principal AI Operations Engineer within the Business Technology Solutions (BTS) group in the United States. The role emphasizes end-to-end ML/AI engineering, platform operations, and scalable AI delivery across Bath teams.

You will architect patterns, implement registries and observability, and drive adoption of CI/CD, feature stores, and cloud-native ML pipelines. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to operationalize ML/AI, work with tools like SageMaker,