Sr Associate Software Engineer - Applied AI

Amgen seeks a Senior Associate Software Engineer to join its Applied AI team in Burnaby, designing and deploying LLM-powered agents and custom GPTs on enterprise platforms. The role involves building scalable retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, integrating systems using N8N orchestration, and enabling adoption across organizational teams. This position requires technical depth in generative AI, compliance expertise, and the ability to navigate a rapidly evolving technology landscape.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy LLM-powered agents and Custom GPTs on enterprise platforms with RAG pipelines and prompt engineering
• Build scalable RAG pipelines, integration layers, and event-driven orchestrations to connect systems and trigger agent workflows
• Evaluate emerging AI models, platforms, and frameworks including OpenAI, Databricks, LangChain, and AWS services
• Implement automated evaluation, monitoring, and testing for retrieval quality, response quality, safety, and cost
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into production solutions and provide technical enablement

Requirements

• Master's degree in Computer Science or related field plus 4+ years experience, OR Bachelor's plus 6+ years experience
• 4+ years professional software development and system design experience
• 2+ years building and deploying generative AI applications, Assistants, or Custom GPTs in production
• 2+ years designing and building cloud-native solutions, preferably AWS with Bedrock, Lambda, EKS
• 2+ years hands-on experience with vector databases, embedding models, and RAG pipelines
• 2+ years building modern web applications using TypeScript, React, Next.js with component-driven architecture
• Strong Python programming skills and familiarity with GenAI libraries like LangChain and Hugging Face