# Senior AI Application Engineer

Hiring organization: [Bristol Myers Squibb](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/bristol-myers-squibb)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/967a5eff-45e2-4344-8600-51bb584574a6

Listed on Bristol Myers Squibb's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior
- Salary: 137530 – 183319 USD per year

## Summary

This role builds cloud-hosted AI applications and agent systems for pharmaceutical research and operations at Bristol Myers Squibb, using AWS services and modern LLM frameworks. It's suited to experienced backend engineers who want to work hands-on with cutting-edge AI technology on problems that directly impact drug discovery and development.

_Our summary, not Bristol Myers Squibb's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Athena, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon RDS, Amazon S3, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS CloudFormation, AWS Lambda, CI/CD, FastAPI, Gemini, GitHub, LangChain, LangGraph, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Node.js, OpenAI, PostgreSQL, Python, Redis, SQL, Terraform, TypeScript, Vector Databases

## Required

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- 5+ years of software engineering, cloud engineering, platform engineering, or backend application development
- Hands-on experience building cloud-native applications on AWS
- Strong proficiency in Python, FastAPI, TypeScript/Node, or comparable backend frameworks
- Experience with containers, CI/CD, GitHub workflows, automated testing, and infrastructure-as-code
- Experience building LLM, RAG, or agentic AI applications using frameworks like LangGraph or LangChain
- Familiarity with MCP/FastMCP, read-write-search APIs, vector databases, and knowledge graphs
- Experience with SQL, semantic layers, and data warehouse context
- Experience building sandboxed execution, data branching, provenance, and access-control patterns
- Practical experience integrating with frontier LLM model providers

## Nice to have

- Familiarity with permissioned markdown/YAML stores
- Experience with session/state management and structured output validation
- Experience translating LLM-derived meaning into governed data layers
- Effective use of coding agents or AI-assisted development tools like Claude Code or GitHub Copilot

Apply on Bristol Myers Squibb's site: https://bristolmyerssquibb.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/BMS/job/Seattle-400-Dexter---WA---US/Senior-Application-Engineer_R1602672-1