Principal Architect

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💵 $144.4k - $195.4k / year

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Amgen

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1980

🧬 Biotechnology

💊 Pharmaceuticals

🔬 Science

💰 $28.5G Post-IPO Debt on 2022-12

Biotechnology • Pharmaceuticals • Science

Amgen is a global leader in biotechnology, focusing on the development and commercialization of innovative medicines made from living cells. The company aims to treat serious illnesses, often targeting diseases with limited therapeutic options. Amgen emphasizes scientific innovation and is committed to ethical research, patient safety, and environmental sustainability. It actively engages in clinical trials and is known for its contributions to the fields of cancer treatment and obesity management among others.

📋 Description

• Play a pivotal role in building and scaling machine learning models from development to production. • Create efficient and reliable ML pipelines. • Lead the end-to-end design, development, and delivery of machine learning and Generative AI (GenAI) solutions, leveraging Databricks, Apache Spark, SQL, and Python for scalable data processing, feature engineering, and model development from problem framing to production deployment and business impact realization. • Act as an Architect for large-scale Data Engineering and ML/GenAI initiatives, driving architecture decisions across lakehouse platforms (Databricks), distributed compute (Spark), and cloud ecosystems (AWS/GCP/Azure). • Design and implement advanced data pipelines and AI systems, including batch and streaming data processing (Spark), data modeling (SQL), and ML workflows (Python). • Build and optimize robust data foundations for AI by developing high-quality, scalable ETL/ELT pipelines in Databricks, ensuring data availability, consistency, and performance for downstream ML/GenAI use cases. • Define and institutionalize evaluation, validation, and governance frameworks for ML/GenAI systems, including model performance tracking, prompt evaluation, safety guardrails, hallucination mitigation, and compliance. • Partner directly with business stakeholders and product leaders to translate objectives into data-driven AI/ML solutions. • Establish and enforce best practices in MLOps, LLMOps, DataOps, and DevOps, including CI/CD pipelines, Databricks workflows, monitoring, observability, reproducibility, and cost optimization. • Architect and oversee scalable cloud-based data and AI platforms, integrating Databricks Lakehouse, Spark processing layers, and cloud-native services for unified analytics and AI workloads. • Drive experimentation strategy, including A/B testing, prompt optimization, and data-driven iteration. • Provide mentorship to L4 and L5 engineers in data engineering (Spark, SQL, Databricks) and AI/ML development (Python, GenAI frameworks). • Lead cross-functional collaboration across data engineering, data science, platform engineering, and business teams.

🎯 Requirements

• Doctorate degree and 2 years of experience OR Master’s degree and 4 years of experience OR Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of experience OR Associate’s degree and 10 years of experience OR High school diploma / GED and 12 years of experience • Deep expertise in machine learning, deep learning, and Generative AI (LLMs, transformers, embeddings, fine-tuning techniques). • Proven track record of leading and delivering production-grade ML/GenAI systems end-to-end with measurable business impact with strong experience in designing scalable system architectures for ML and GenAI, including distributed systems and high-throughput pipelines. • Expertise in MLOps/LLMOps ecosystems (MLflow, Kubeflow, Airflow, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes). • Strong system design, architecture, and problem-solving skills with the ability to operate independently and lead large initiatives. • Demonstrated proficiency in leveraging cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) for data engineering solutions. • Strong understanding of cloud architecture principles and cost optimization strategies. • Proven ability to mentor and guide junior and mid-level engineers (L4/L5).

🏖️ Benefits

• A comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions, group medical, dental and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts • A discretionary annual bonus program, or for field sales representatives, a sales-based incentive plan • Stock-based long-term incentives • Award-winning time-off plans • Flexible work models where possible.