Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (Sr ML Engineer)

HYDERABAD (IN)ONSITEPOSTED: 8/15/2026
PHARMAFull-time
HIRING ORGANIZATIONAMGENBiotechnology / Pharmaceuticals
Amgen

ROLE DEFINITION & RESPONSIBILITIES

Core Responsibilities

Technical Delivery & Solution Ownership: Lead the end-to-end technical delivery and deployment of enterprise AI, Generative AI, and automation solutions across discovery, prototyping, system build, rigorous evaluation, production deployment, and operational stabilization.
Architecture & Systems Integration: Define and govern end-to-end production architecture spanning applications, RAG pipelines, bounded agents, APIs, knowledge graphs, enterprise workflows, data persistence, and human-in-the-loop review layers.
Hands-on AI Engineering: Build and contribute to critical production components in Python and SQL, developing foundation model integrations, prompt/context management, retrieval architectures, structured outputs, and agentic toolsets.
Cross-Disciplinary Orchestration: Orchestrate delivery workflows across full-stack developers, ML engineers, data scientists, QA, cybersecurity, compliance, and domain business stakeholders.
Evaluation, DevSecOps & MLOps: Implement layered AI evaluation frameworks (covering safety, latency, retrieval accuracy, and tool use), CI/CD pipelines, SLO monitoring, infrastructure as code, automated rollback mechanisms, and operational runbooks.
Governance & GxP Compliance: Apply Responsible AI frameworks, threat modeling, data privacy standards, and GxP validation controls to ensure compliant enterprise-grade deployment.

Technical & Domain Standards

Comprehensive mastery of production Python, SQL, distributed backend services, and cloud-native architectures.
In-depth expertise in Generative AI, advanced RAG, bounded agent orchestration, and MLOps/LLMOps pipelines.

Total Rewards & Culture

High-impact engineering role within Amgen's global Applied AI (AI Studio) organization.
Competitive executive compensation, performance bonuses, long-term incentive equity, and global healthcare benefits.

REQUIRED VERIFIED SKILLS

Forward Deployed Engineering
Machine Learning
Python
SQL
Generative AI
RAG
Agentic AI
Solution Architecture
API Integration
MLOps
LLMOps
DevSecOps
CI/CD
Enterprise Systems Integration

COMPENSATION & REWARDS

24.0L - 38.0L per annum

ORGANIZATION CONTEXT & CULTURE

Amgen is a leading global biopharmaceutical company committed to unlocking the potential of biology for patients suffering from serious illnesses. It discovers, develops, manufactures, and delivers innovative human therapeutics, focusing on areas with high unmet medical needs such as oncology, cardiovascular disease, bone disease, and inflammatory diseases.

TEAM SIZE: 25,000+ employees
INDUSTRY: Biotechnology / Pharmaceuticals
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