Principal AI Engineer

AbbVie•North Chicago, IL

About The Position

As a discipline expert and contact, drives functional performance by engineering and implementing business technology solutions aimed at enabling and accelerating delivery of new or improved solutions. Investigate, identify, and implement state-of-the-art technology platforms that drive productivity and efficiency gains in own function and throughout multiple business areas. Technical leader acting at a group, department, and cross-functional levels. Responsible for managing the Data, Solutions, Business, and/or technology environments and tying them to the Enterprise Architecture and other architectures designs.

Requirements

Bachelor Degree with 9 years’ experience; Master Degree with 8 years’ experience; PhD with 4 years’ experience.
Technical background and Open Source contribution using AI Engineering, healthcare, pharmaceutical companies.
Proven ability to innovate with a history of new or improved technology solutions with remarkable impact on company productivity.
Interacts well with diverse groups within function and maintains strong working relationships with internal and external collaborators.
Experience getting AI systems to production at scale.
Demonstrated ability to influence others in areas of science and technology.

Responsibilities

Develops and achieves discipline strategy in alignment with functional goals and key business objectives.
Collaborates with experts within function to integrate technical objectives into activities associated with accelerated development of new/improved products or technology.
Advances technical expertise within function.
Proactively demonstrates leadership by advising and sharing knowledge and expert opinions with subordinates, peers, and senior management.
Mentors and trains functional colleagues and assesses current and emerging business challenges enabling functional goal achievement.
Ensures quality and effectiveness of key results of major project plans within function through sound design, early risk assessments, and implementation of fallback strategies.
Sources and identifies emerging scientific and technological trends from multiple internal and external sources and assesses relevance.
Integrates trends into functional short-term objectives.
Advances cross‐discipline technology and direction through generation of data.
Applies imagination and innovation by creating, inventing, and implementing new or better approaches, alternatives and breakthrough ideas that are valued by customers within the function.
Presents concepts and results for functional technical and non‐technical leaders as well as potential and existing partners.
Maximizes impact and value of expertise.
Responsible for adherence to corporate standards regarding applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies, including code of conduct, safety, GxP compliance, and data security.