Software Engineer - AI Platform (Hybrid)

Allergan; Chicago, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Health insurance

401(k)

Job summary

AbbVie is seeking a Software Engineer to support an enterprise AI platform, delivering production-ready capabilities, APIs, and tooling. You will collaborate with senior engineers, product owners, and security partners to enable teams across AbbVie to deploy responsible and effective generative AI.

The role emphasizes reliable platform features, developer experience, and secure data access, with a focus on integration patterns and scalable solutions across scientific, clinical, commercial, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of relevant experience or Master’s with 4+ years in software/AI platform engineering.
• Hands-on experience building or supporting software applications, APIs, cloud-based services, data pipelines, or AI/ML-enabled solutions.
• Experience with modern software development practices: source control, CI/CD, testing, monitoring, and agile delivery.
• Proficiency in Python, JS/TS, Java, or similar languages; familiarity with cloud platforms, containers, APIs, or enterprise integration patterns.

Responsibilities

• Develop, test, and maintain AI platform capabilities including APIs and backend services.
• Contribute to reusable patterns for prompt management, retrieval-augmented generation, and model routing.
• Collaborate with product owners, engineers, architects, and stakeholders to deliver practical solutions.
• Support AI platform onboarding and adoption; improve documentation and patterns.
• Engage in quality engineering activities: unit/integration/acceptance testing and validation evidence.

Skills

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

Java

Cloud platforms

Docker

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Master’s Degree

Tools

APIs

Job description

Company 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 at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn,Facebook,Instagram,XandYouTube.

Job Description

Software Engineer supporting an enterprise AI platform. A hands-on engineering role with build, enhance, test, and support responsibilities of production-ready AI platform capabilities that enable teams across AbbVie to use generative AI responsibly and effectively. Work with senior engineers, product owners, architects, security partners, data teams, and business stakeholders to deliver reliable platform features, improve developer experience, support integration patterns, and contribute to governed AI solutions used across scientific, clinical, commercial, and operational areas.

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; escalates issues appropriately and contribute to a collaborative engineering culture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree with 5years of relevant technical experience OR Master’s degree with 4years of relevant technical experience, preferably in software engineering, data engineering, AI/ML engineering, or platform engineering.
• Hands-on experience building or supporting software applications, APIs, cloud-based services, data pipelines, automation, or AI/ML-enabled solutions.
• Working knowledge of modern software development practices, including source control, CI/CD, testing, monitoring, documentation, and agile delivery.
• 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.
• Interest in generative AI, LLMs, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, model evaluation, or AI platform tooling; direct enterprise AI experience 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.

Additional Information

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• 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 thetimeofthis posting based on the job grade for this position.Individualcompensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographiclocation,andwemayultimatelypaymore or less than the posted range. This range may bemodifiedin 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 short-term incentiveprograms.

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

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