Senior Engineer, AI Agents (Senior Developer - Python)

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 – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

As a Lead Software Engineer, AI Agents, you will contribute significantly to the agility and productivity of our IT organization by building AI agents that challenge the boundaries of traditional computing capabilities. Your work will be crucial in enabling our IT organization (Business Technology Solutions) to fulfill its mission of using technology to propel AbbVie to the forefront of our industry. 

Are you excited about developing cutting-edge AI systems to create new opportunities and transform the way we deliver technology? If so, you may be an excellent fit for this role at AbbVie – join us in our mission to improve the lives of patients through innovation. 

This role reports on the Digital Experience and Innovation group within the Business Technology Solutions department. We set the vision for our digital employee experience and work closely with other groups to bring that experience to life. 

This role is on site in Lake County, IL; we’re flexible and work from home ~2 days/week.  

Ideal candidates are 

• Forward Thinkers: Pragmatically impact-driven individuals who are at the forefront of AI Agents but focus on making possibilities real and measuring impact. 

• Strong Technologists: Those who quickly learn the latest AI landscape, frameworks, and code on a detailed technical level. 

• Quick-to-Value Developers: Developers who understand that working code is paramount. 

• Highly Agile: Individuals who prefer to learn by building, experimenting, and iterating. 

• Great coaches: as a lead, you’ll set the tone for more junior developers and coach them in their skills. 

Responsibilities 

• Deliver clean, scalable, well-optimized Python code 

• Implement agentic workflows, from scratch where necessary 

• Support multiple projects and advocate for optimal solutions 

• Learn new skills and approach problems creatively 

• Work within constraints, including cost and security 

• Conceive, design, engineer, and implement software and technology solutions by studying information needs, conferring with users, investigating problem areas, and studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes 

• Resolve key project hurdles and assumptions by effectively utilizing available information and technical expertise. 

• Offer technical guidance and support to the development team, ensuring best practices are followed and resolving complex technical issues.  

• Ensure code quality, maintainability, and adherence to coding standards through thorough code reviews and quality assurance plans. 

• Manage the Software Development Lifecycle and required documentation, serving as a System Owner 

• Track project milestones and major deliverables, ensuring timely completion of the project according to its scope and goals 

• Highly autonomous and productive in performing activities, requiring only minimal direction from or interaction with supervisor.  Keeps key stakeholders informed through effective verbal and written communication. 

• Matures and leverages relationships with affiliates, subsidiaries, vendors, and industry peers in accordance with Abbvie Values, Vendor Management Office, and Purchasing to further the mission, vision and goals of the organization. 

• May mentor/supervise a team of one or more and guide and evaluate the performance of those individuals; is accountable for the effective performance of the team/individuals. 

• Understand and adhere to corporate standards regarding applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies, including code of conduct, safety, GxP compliance, data security, and the software development lifecycle. 

•  Bachelor's Degree with 7 years experience; Master's Degree with 6 years experience; PhD with 2 years experience. 

• Experience in the pharmaceutical industry preferred. 

• Demonstrated ability to deliver working software and maintain that software over time in a production environment. 

• Demonstrated proficiency across a wide range of technologies and platforms related to software design and development, programming languages, data integration, data warehousing, data analysis and visualization tools, data storage, network connectivity, and virtualization/cloud environments. 

• Excellent written and oral English communication skills. 

• Experience with a variety of programming languages, cloud technologies, and frameworks, with demonstrated ability to learn new and evolving technologies. Python and AWS experience required.  

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 range. 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. ​

• This job is eligible to participate in our long-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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