Software Engineer - AI Platform (Hybrid)

AbbVie Inc.; North Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Medical/dental/vision insurance

401(k)

Job summary

AbbVie Inc. is seeking a Software Engineer to support an enterprise AI platform. This hands-on role involves building, testing, and maintaining production-ready AI capabilities to enable teams across AbbVie to use generative AI responsibly and effectively.

The engineer will work with product owners, architects, and security partners to deliver reliable platform features, improve developer experience, and integrate patterns across scientific, clinical, commercial, and operational areas.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree with 5 years of relevant technical experience or Master’s degree with 4 years of relevant technical experience.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Develop, test, and maintain AI platform capabilities including APIs, backend services, user workflows, automation scripts, and integration components.
• Contribute to reusable engineering patterns for prompt management, retrieval-augmented generation, model routing, evaluation, observability, and secure access to enterprise data and tools.
• Collaborate with product owners, senior engineers, architects, and stakeholders to understand requirements, estimate work, and deliver maintainable solutions.
• Support AI platform onboarding and adoption by helping teams troubleshoot issues, improve documentation, and apply approved development patterns.
• Assist with quality engineering activities including unit, integration, and user acceptance testing; defect resolution and validation for controlled environments.
• Help operate and improve AI platform production services by monitoring reliability, investigating incidents, and automating recurring tasks.
• Adhere to AbbVie standards for secure software delivery, responsible AI, privacy, data protection, and lifecycle processes.
• Communicate progress, risks, and technical findings clearly to teammates and stakeholders.

Skills

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

Java

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Containers

APIs

Data pipelines

AI/ML

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s Degree with 5 years of relevant technical experience

Master’s degree with 4 years of relevant technical experience

Tools

CI/CD tooling

APIs

Cloud platforms

Containers

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 at www.abbvie.com . Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook , Instagram , X and YouTube.

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; escal…?

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree with 5 years of relevant technical experience OR Master’s degree with 4 years 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.

Benefits and Compensation

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted rate. This range may be modified in the future.

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs.
• Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.

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