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Our shared mission-to serve patients living with serious illnesses-drives all that we do.\nSince 1980, we’ve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world’s toughest diseases. With our focus on four therapeutic areas -Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease- we reach millions of patients each year. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline of medicines to treat cancer, heart disease, inflammatory conditions, rare diseases, and obesity and obesity-related conditions. As a member of the Amgen team, you’ll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives.\nOur award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.\nSr Associate Software Engineer - Applied AI\n What you will do\nLet’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will join a fun, innovative Applied AI team within the AI & Data Science (AI&D) organization at Amgen.\nAs a Sr Associate Software Engineer, you will be an integral member of the Applied AI - AI Productivity/Custom GPT Solutions Practice team, which empowers Amgen teams and staff members to build high-value, purpose-driven, LLM-powered AI Assistants and/or Custom GPTs through expert design and development support. You will play a key role in driving adoption of this program across multiple Amgen organizations by partnering with cross-functional teams and senior leaders. This role requires strong technical depth, adaptability, and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-evolving environment.\nThe primary responsibility of this role is to design, develop, and deploy secure, scalable, and intuitive AI agents, Custom GPTs and associated AI capabilities on leading enterprise AI platforms and tools.\nResponsibilities:\nGenAI/AI Delivery:\nDesign, develop, and deploy LLM-powered Agents and/or Custom GPTs on ChatGPT Enterprise platform that leverage RAG pipelines, Apps integration and prompt engineering.\nContribute to the capability Roadmap through implementation of MCP-based Apps, ChatGPT Skills, Plugins and Workspace Agents.\nImplement scalable RAG pipelines that ground assistant responses in trusted enterprise data.\nBuild integration layers and event-driven orchestrations using N8N (webhooks, nodes, APIs) to connect systems, trigger agent workflows, and implement human-in-the-loop steps.\nEvaluate emerging AI models, enterprise platforms, agent frameworks, retrieval technologies, and orchestration patterns, including OpenAI, Databricks, LangChain/LangGraph, and AWS AI services.\nEnsure compliance with data privacy, security, and regulatory standards of the company.\nImplement automated evaluation, regression testing, tracing, and monitoring to assess retrieval quality, context, response quality, safety, latency, and cost.\nApply relevant advancements in generative AI, agentic systems, retrieval, evaluation, and AI software engineering to continuously improve solution quality and delivery practices.\nCollaboration & Enablement:\nWork closely with functional teams, product owners, data engineers, platform and DevOps teams, and business SMEs to translate requirements into reliable, production-grade solutions.\nProduce clear technical design documents, runbooks, and handover materials to support operational sustainability.\nSupport office hours and other technical enablement sessions.\nSupport junior engineers and contribute towards technical guidance, reusable patterns, and engineering best practices for GenAI adoption\nWhat we expect of you\nWe are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional we seek is a person with these qualifications.\nBasic Qualifications\nMaster’s degree with 4+ years of experience in Computer Science, IT, or a related field, OR\nBachelor’s degree with 6+ years of experience in Computer Science, IT, or a related field.\n4+ years of professional experience in software development and system design.\n2+ years of hands-on experience building & deploying Generative AI applications, Assistants or Custom GPTs in production centered around OpenAI(preferred), Claude or Gemini.\n 2+ years of hands-on experience designing and building cloud-native solutions (preferably on AWS using services like Amazon Bedrock, AWS Lambda, Amazon EKS)\n2+ years of hands-on experience with vector databases, embedding models, and RAG pipelines.\nExperience designing and implementing secure RESTful integrations using API gateways, OAuth, service identities, and enterprise authentication patterns.\nExperience effectively using AI-assisted software development tools such as OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot while applying appropriate code-review, security, and quality controls.\n 2+ years of hands-on experience building modern web applications using TypeScript, React, and Next.js, with strong knowledge of component-driven architecture, design systems, REST/GraphQL integration, state management, automated testing, performance optimization, and modern CI/CD practices.\nStrong programming skills in Python and familiarity with GenAI libraries (Transformers, LangChain, Hugging Face, etc.).\nAbility to work effectively with global, distributed teams using Scaled Agile methodologies.\nStrong problem-solving skills and the ability to perform effectively in a fast-paced environment.\nPreferred Skills:\nStrong verbal and written communication skills.\nHigh degree of initiative and self-motivation, with a servant-leadership mindset.\nAbility to work under minimal supervision while delivering high-quality outcomes.\nExcellent analytical, gap, and fit-assessment skills.\nAbility to manage multiple priorities successfully.\nTeam-oriented, with a strong focus on achieving shared goals.\nExperience working with Power Automate, Uipath, Tableau, JIRA, and Smartsheet.\n2+ years of experience with Agentic AI platforms and frameworks (Langchain, AWS Bedrock, Uipath Maestro).\nFamiliarity with GxP environments and systems validation.\nExperience working in regulated industries such as biotech or healthcare.\nWhat you can expect of us\nAs we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for your professional and personal growth and well-being. From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, we’ll support your journey every step of the way.\nIn addition to the base salary, Amgen offers competitive and comprehensive Total Rewards Plans that are aligned with local industry standards.\nApply now and make a lasting impact with the Amgen team.\ncareers.amgen.com\nAs an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for people around the world, Amgen fosters an inclusive environment of diverse, ethical, committed and highly accomplished people who respect each other and live the Amgen values to continue advancing science to serve patients. Together, we compete in the fight against serious disease.\nAmgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.\nWe will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. 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