Sr Associate Software Engineer

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Job Description

Join Amgen's Mission to Serve Patients

If you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. At Amgen, our shared mission—to serve patients—drives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies. We are global collaborators who achieve together—researching, manufacturing, and deliver ever-better products that reach over 10 million patients worldwide. It’s time for a career you can be proud of.

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role We are seeking a highly skilled and hands-on Senior Software Engineer – Search to drive the development of intelligent, scalable search systems across our pharmaceutical organization. You'll work at the intersection of software engineering, AI, and life sciences to enable seamless access to structured and unstructured content—spanning research papers, clinical trial data, regulatory documents, and internal scientific knowledge. This is a high-impact role where your code directly accelerates innovation and decision-making in drug development and healthcare delivery

• Design, implement, and optimize search services using technologies such as Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Solr, or vector search frameworks.
• Collaborate with data scientists and analysts to deliver data models and insights.
• Develop custom ranking algorithms, relevancy tuning, and semantic search capabilities tailored to scientific and medical content
• Support the development of intelligent search features like query understanding, question answering, summarization, and entity recognition
• Build and maintain robust, cloud-native APIs and backend services to support high-availability search infrastructure (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure
• Implement CI/CD pipelines, observability, and monitoring for production-grade search systems
• Work closely with Product Owners, Tech Architect.
• Enable indexing of both structured (e.g., clinical trial metadata) and unstructured (e.g., PDFs, research papers) content
• Design & develop modern data management tools to curate our most important data sets, models and processes, while identifying areas for process automation and further efficiencies
• Expertise in programming languages such as Python, Java, React, typescript, or similar.
•  Strong experience with data storage and processing technologies (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Airflow, SQL/NoSQL databases).
• Demonstrate strong initiative and ability to work with minimal supervision or direction
• Strong experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and infrastructure as code like Terraform
• In-depth knowledge of relational and columnar SQL databases, including database design
• Expertise in data warehousing concepts (e.g. star schema, entitlement implementations, SQL v/s NoSQL modeling, milestoning, indexing, partitioning)
•  Experience in REST and/or GraphQL
• Experience in creating Spark jobs for data transformation and aggregation
• Experience with distributed, multi-tiered systems, algorithms, and relational databases.
• Possesses strong rapid prototyping skills and can quickly translate concepts into working code
• Develop and execute unit tests, integration tests, and other testing strategies to ensure the quality of the software
• Analyze and understand the functional and technical requirements of applications
• Identify and resolve software bugs and performance issues
• Work closely with multi-functional teams, including product management, design, and QA, to deliver high-quality software on time
• Maintain detailed documentation of software designs, code, and development processes

Basic Qualifications:

• Degree in computer science & engineering preferred with 6-8 years of software development experience
• Proficient in Databricks, Data engineering, Python, Search algorithms using NLP/AI models, GCP Cloud services, GraphQL
• Hands-on experience with search technologies (Elasticsearch, Solr, OpenSearch, or Lucene).
• Hands on experience with Full Stack software development. Proficient in programming languages, Java, Python, Fast Python, Databricks/RDS, Data engineering, S3Buckets, ETL, Hadoop, Spark, airflow, AWS Lambda
• Experience with data streaming frameworks (Apache Kafka, Flink).
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and related services (e.g., S3, Redshift, Big Query, Databricks)
• Hands on experience with various cloud services, understand pros and cons of various cloud services in well architected cloud design principles
• Working knowledge of open-source tools such as AWS lambda.
• Strong problem solving, analytical skills; Ability to learn quickly; Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in Python, Java, React, Fast Python, Typescript, JavaScript, CSS HTML is desirable
• Experienced with API integration, serverless, microservices architecture.
• Experience in Data bricks, PySpark, Spark, SQL, ETL, Kafka
• Solid understanding of data governance, data security, and data quality best practices
• Experience with Unit Testing, Building and Debugging the Code
• Experienced with AWS /Azure Platform, Building and deploying the code
• Experience in vector database for large language models, Databricks or RDS
• Experience with DevOps CICD build and deployment pipeline
• Experience in Agile software development methodologies
• Experience in End-to-End testing
• Experience in additional Modern Database terminologies.
   

Good to Have Skills

• Willingness to work on AI Applications
• Experience in MLOps, React, JavaScript, Java, GCP Search Engines
• Experience with popular large language models
• Experience with LangChain or LlamaIndex framework for language models
• Experience with prompt engineering, model fine tuning
• Knowledge of NLP techniques for text analysis and sentiment analysis

Soft Skills:

• Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively with global teams.
• High degree of initiative and self-motivation.
• Team-oriented, with a focus on achieving team goals.
• Strong presentation and public speaking skills.

Thrive

What you can expect from us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for our teammates’ professional and personal growth and well-being.

In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers competitive and comprehensive Total Rewards Plans that are aligned with local industry standards.

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for a career that defies imagination

In our quest to serve patients above all else, Amgen is the first to imagine, and the last to doubt. Join us.

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Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider you without regard to your race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.