Senior AI Engineer at Bristol Myers Squibb
Seattle, WA
$137,530–$183,319from the description
Jul 13, 2026
Seattle, WA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A hands-on senior engineering role focused on designing and building cloud-native, agentic AI applications within a fast-paced internal accelerator that delivers MVPs on twelve-week cycles. Day-to-day work spans backend service development, LLM integration, agent orchestration, retrieval and knowledge systems, and platform/DevOps engineering on AWS. The role suits an experienced engineer with a strong background in Python or TypeScript, agentic frameworks, and production AI systems.
Senior level · 5+ years · Cambridge, MA · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 3 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 220 people in the Cambridge, MA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 170–410
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $169,742 (middle half $134,780–$187,781). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The posting lists four distinct work locations with different salary bands: Cambridge Crossing, MA ($151,280–$183,319); Madison/Giralda, NJ and Princeton, NJ ($137,530–$166,654); and Seattle, WA ($151,280–$183,319). The compensation range reported here spans the full cross-location minimum to maximum. The CBSA is set to Cambridge, MA (the first-listed location); hiring managers should note this role may be filled at any of the four sites.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's or higher degree … or a related field' but does not explicitly accept equivalent experience in lieu of a degree. However, the phrasing 'or higher' and the broad field list make this a soft gate in practice; the degree requirement is set to None because the JD does not hard-gate on a specific level.
Python/FastAPI and TypeScript/Node are listed together as a paired requirement ('Python and FastAPI and/or TypeScript/Node'); Python is treated as the primary must-have with TypeScript/Node as an alternative, reflecting the JD's 'and/or' framing.
AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI) are explicitly required under the Required Qualifications section as a demonstrated ability, not merely preferred.
MCP servers, FastMCP, vector/graph/relational databases for retrieval, LangSmith/promptfoo, and multi-agent systems all appear exclusively under Desired Qualifications and are marked preferred accordingly.
The alternative occupation code 15-2051 (Data Scientists) is noted as a runner-up given the heavy ML/AI modeling and evaluation work described, but the primary day-to-day work is clearly software engineering — building and shipping cloud-native AI applications — making 15-1252 the clear primary.
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