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Senior Software Engineer AI, Drug Development IT – Clinical Operations

Position Summary:

At BMS, digital innovation and Information Technology are central to our vision of transforming patients’ lives through science. To accelerate our ability to serve patients around the world, we must unleash the power of technology. We are committed to being at the forefront of transforming the way medicine is made and delivered by harnessing the power of computer and data science, artificial intelligence, and other technologies to promote scientific discovery, faster decision making, and enhanced patient care.

If you want an exciting and rewarding career that is meaningful, consider joining our diverse team!

As IT for Global Drug Development (GDD), this position would be based out of our BMS Hyderabad you are part of the GDD data team that delivers automated solutions leveraging Generative AI, Data Science and analytics capabilities for Drug Development Document Generation. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in designing & Developing Python applications in a Data intensive environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product managers and designers to understand project requirements and translate them into technical solutions.

• Design, implement, and fine-tune LLM-based solutions using Claude and other frontier models

• Build and manage prompt engineering pipelines, including system prompts, chain-of-thought frameworks, and few-shot examples.

• Build responsive, high-performance user interfaces using modern frameworks such as React.js.

• Develop intuitive AI-powered dashboards, chat interfaces, and data visualization components

• Customize and optimize model implementations through Constitutional AI techniques and advanced API integrations.

• Evaluate model performance, run A/B tests, and implement feedback loops for continuous improvement

• Stay up to date with the latest advancements in LLMs, foundation models, and generative AI trends.

• Architect and develop scalable backend services using Python (FastAPI, Django, Flask) and/or Node.js

• Design and maintain robust RESTful APIs and GraphQL endpoints supporting AI model integrations

• Implement secure authentication, authorization (OAuth 2.0, JWT), and role-based access control (RBAC)

• Manage and optimize databases including PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Redis

• Conduct code reviews and provide mentorship to junior developers.

• Coaching and mentoring: Coaching and mentoring the development team on agile methodologies and best practices to ensure that they are continuously improving their skills and knowledge.

• Mentors other team members effectively to unlock full potential.

• Prior experience working in an Agile/Product based environment.

Qualifications & Experience

• 4-8 Years experience required, with minimum 2 years in full stack.

• Strong understanding of front-end and back-end technologies, including - Python, flask, React.js, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and RESTful APIs.

• Experience with databases such as MySQL, Postgress, AWS Glue desired.

• Minimum one year of hands-on experience with frontier LLMs (Claude, GPT-4, Gemini, LLaMA).

• Prompt engineering — system prompts, chain-of-thought, few-shot & zero-shot techniques

• Fine-tuning models (LoRA, RLHF, instruction tuning)

• Building RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipelines

• Working with LangChain, LlamaIndex, or similar orchestration frameworks

• Experience with vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, ChromaDB)

• Familiarity with model evaluation metrics and benchmarking

• Collects and reviews data sources and tries to apply potential recommendations.

• Groom and coach juniors in the team.

• Foster an environment of constant learning.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field (preferred).

If you come across a role that intrigues you but doesn’t perfectly line up with your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be one step away from work that will transform your life and career.

Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers With a single vision as inspiring as “Transforming patients’ lives through science™ ”, every BMS employee plays an integral role in work that goes far beyond ordinary. Each of us is empowered to apply our individual talents and unique perspectives in a supportive culture, promoting global participation in clinical trials, while our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.

On-site Protocol

BMS has an occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design jobs. The occupancy type that you are assigned is determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role:

Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.

Supporting People with Disabilities

BMS is dedicated to ensuring that people with disabilities can excel through a transparent recruitment process, reasonable workplace accommodations/adjustments and ongoing support in their roles. Applicants can request a reasonable workplace accommodations/adjustment prior to accepting a job offer. If you require reasonable accommodations/adjustments in completing this application, or in any part of the recruitment process, direct your inquiries to adastaffingsupport@bms.com. Visit careers.bms.com/eeo-accessibility to access our complete Equal Employment Opportunity statement.

Candidate Rights

BMS will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, pursuant to applicable laws in your area.

If you live in or expect to work from Los Angeles County if hired for this position, please visit this page for important additional information: https://careers.bms.com/california-residents/

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