Associate Engineer, Analytical AI Engineering

Bristol Myers Squibb • Princeton, NJ

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About The Position

The Associate Engineer is a developing individual contributor who delivers reliable, well-scoped engineering work within established patterns. The role helps build data pipelines, ML workflow components, and platform features that support production-ready AI/ML solutions. The engineer builds technical proficiency, contributes consistently to team commitments, and works within proven architecture patterns with guidance from senior engineers after initial alignment. The position is suited to early-career engineers ready to take ownership while developing toward increasingly independent delivery. The ideal candidate is dependable, curious, and eager to grow.

Requirements

• BA/BS degree required; a quantitative or engineering discipline is preferred.
• 0–2 years of experience in data engineering, software engineering, ML engineering, or a related field; relevant advanced degrees contribute to required years of experience.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Familiarity with data pipeline development and common processing patterns.
• Working knowledge of version control (Git), testing practices, code review, and documentation.
• Works effectively within team guidelines and standards.
• Builds positive working relationships with teammates and cross-functional partners.
• Reliably delivers commitments and communicates proactively when blockers arise.
• Demonstrates curiosity and commitment to growing technical and professional skills.

Nice To Haves

• Exposure to cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or Databricks, with willingness to develop deeper platform proficiency.
• Familiarity with ML concepts and workflows, including model training, feature engineering, and data preparation.
• MLOps experience.

Responsibilities

• Implement data pipelines, ML workflow components, and platform features using established architecture patterns and coding standards.
• Write readable, maintainable, and testable code with limited guidance after initial design alignment with senior engineers.
• Deliver well-scoped work reliably and on schedule, understanding how it fits into the larger solution.
• Write and maintain tests for assigned work and ensure changes are tested before deployment.
• Troubleshoot issues within assigned pipelines and features, identify root causes, and propose solutions.
• Navigate the codebase and data designs with growing independence after initial orientation.
• Contribute to team scoping and design exercises and share observations that improve approaches to recurring problems.
• Explain completed work clearly to teammates, including what was built, why, and relevant trade-offs.
• Demonstrate awareness of the business context and how assigned work connects to broader team goals.
• Take ownership of professional development by seeking feedback and applying it to strengthen technical and professional skills.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefit plans, including wellbeing support, retirement and financial protection benefits, and medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance offerings, subject to plan terms and eligibility.
• Flexible Time Off for eligible U.S.-based exempt employees, without a set accrual limit and subject to manager approval.
• For specified non-exempt employees, RayzeBio employees, and employees located in Puerto Rico: 160 hours of paid vacation annually for new hires, subject to manager approval.
• 11 paid company holidays each year; specified employee groups also receive 3 optional holidays.
• Depending on eligibility, paid sick leave, up to two paid volunteer days per year, summer-hours flexibility, and leaves of absence for medical, personal, parental, caregiver, bereavement, or military needs.
• Eligible employees may receive an annual Global Shutdown between Christmas Day and New Year's Day.
• Potential eligibility for additional discretionary cash incentives and stock opportunities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level