<h2>Career Category</h2>Information Systems<h2></h2><h2>Job Description</h2>Join Amgens Mission to Serve PatientsIf you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. At Amgen, our shared mission—to serve patients—drives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies. We are global collaborators who achieve together—researching, manufacturing, and deliver ever-better products that reach over 10 million patients worldwide. It’s time for a career you can be proud of.What you will doLet’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role We are seeking a strategic and hands-on Specialist Software Engineer / AI Engineer – Search to lead the design, development, and deployment of AI-powered search and knowledge discovery solutions across our pharmaceutical enterprise. In this role, youll guide a team of engineers and work closely with data scientists, oncologists, and domain experts to build intelligent systems that help users across R&amp;D, medical, and commercial functions find relevant, actionable information quickly and accurately..<ul><li>Architect and lead the development of scalable, intelligent search systems leveraging NLP, embeddings, LLMs, and vector search</li><li>Own the end-to-end lifecycle of search solutions, from ingestion and indexing to ranking, relevancy tuning, and UI integration</li><li>Build systems that surface scientific literature, clinical trial data, regulatory content, and real-world evidence using semantic and contextual search</li><li>Integrate AI models that improve search precision, query understanding, and result summarization (e.g., generative answers via LLMs).</li><li>Partner with platform teams to deploy search solutions on scalable infrastructure (e.g., Kubernetes, cloud-native services, Databricks, Snowflake).</li><li>Experience in Generative AI on Search Engines</li><li>Experience in integrating Generative AI capabilities and Vision Models to enrich content quality and user engagement.</li><li>Building and owning the next generation of content knowledge platforms and other algorithms/systems that create high quality and unique experiences. Designing and implementing advanced AI Models for entity matching, data duplication.</li><li>Experience Generative AI tasks such as content summarization. deduping and metadata quality. Researching and developing advanced AI algorithms, including Vision Models for visual content analysis.</li><li> Implementing KPI measurement frameworks to evaluate the quality and performance of delivered models, including those utilizing Generative AI.</li><li> Developing and maintaining Deep Learning models for data quality checks, visual similarity scoring, and content tagging.</li><li>Continually researching current and emerging technologies and proposing changes where needed.</li><li>Implement GenAI solutions, utilize ML infrastructure, and contribute to data preparation, optimization, and performance enhancements.</li><li>Manage and mentor a cross-functional engineering team focused on AI, ML, and search infrastructure.</li><li>Foster a collaborative, high-performance engineering culture with a focus on innovation and delivery.</li><li>Work with domain experts, data stewards, oncologists, and product managers to align search capabilities with business and scientific need</li></ul>.Basic Qualifications:<ul><li>Degree in computer science &amp; engineering preferred with 9-12 years of software development experience</li><li>Proficient in AI Model, NLM, AI, Python, Elasticsearch OR  Solr OR OpenSearch, GraphQL, No SQL, Cloud CI/CD build  pipelines, API</li><li>Proven experience building search systems with technologies like Elasticsearch, Solr, OpenSearch, or vector DBs (e.g., Pinecone, FAISS).</li><li>Hands-on experience with various AI models, GCP Search Engines, GCP Cloud services</li><li>Strong understanding of NLP, embeddings, transformers, and LLM-based search applications</li><li>Proficient in programming language AI/ML, Python, GraphQL, Java Crawlers, Java Script, SQL/NoSQL, Databricks/RDS, Data engineering, S3 Buckets, dynamo DB</li><li>Strong problem solving, analytical skills; Ability to learn quickly; Excellent communication and interpersonal skills</li><li>Experience deploying ML services and search infrastructure in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP)</li></ul>Preferred Qualifications:<ul><li>Experience in AI/ML, Java, Rest API, Python</li><li>Proficient in Databricks, Java</li><li>Experienced with Fast Pythons API</li><li>Experience with design patterns, data structures, data modelling, data algorithms</li><li>Knowledge of ontologies and taxonomies such as MeSH, SNOMED CT, UMLS, or MedDRA.</li><li>Familiarity with MLOps, CI/CD for ML, and monitoring of AI models in production.</li><li>Experienced with AWS /Azure Platform, building and deploying the code</li><li>Experience in PostgreSQL /Mongo DB SQL database, vector database for large language models, Databricks or RDS, S3 Buckets</li><li>Experience in Google cloud Search and Google cloud Storage</li><li>Experience with popular large language models</li><li>Experience with LangChain or LlamaIndex framework for language models</li><li>Experience with prompt engineering, model fine tuning</li><li>Knowledge of NLP techniques for text analysis and sentiment analysis</li><li>Experience with generative AI or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) frameworks in pharma/biotech setting</li><li>Experience in Agile software development methodologies</li><li>Experience in End-to-End testing as part of Test-Driven Development</li></ul>Good to Have Skills<ul><li>Willingness to work on Full stack Applications</li><li>Experience working with biomedical or scientific data (e.g., PubMed, clinical trial registries, internal regulatory databases).</li></ul>Soft Skills:<ul><li>Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills.</li><li>Strong verbal and written communication skills.</li><li>Ability to work effectively with global, remote teams.</li><li>High degree of initiative and self-motivation.</li><li>Ability to manage multiple priorities successfully.</li><li>Team-oriented, with a focus on achieving team goals.</li><li>Strong presentation and public speaking skills.</li></ul>ThriveWhat you can expect from usAs we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for our teammates’ professional and personal growth and well-being.In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers competitive and comprehensive Total Rewards Plans that are aligned with local industry standards.Apply nowfor a career that defies imaginationIn our quest to serve patients above all else, Amgen is the first to imagine, and the last to doubt. Join us.careers.amgen.comAmgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider you without regard to your race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided with 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. Please contact us to request accommodation..

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