Sr Machine Learning Engineer

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

ROLE DEFINITION & RESPONSIBILITIES

Core Responsibilities

End-to-End AI Asset Ownership: Lead the full lifecycle design, technical framing, development, evaluation, deployment, stabilization, and business outcome measurement of enterprise AI assets and machine learning workstreams.
Production AI/ML Architecture: Architect and build scalable production pipelines across feature stores, knowledge retrieval, RAG, bounded agents, foundation models, inference APIs, persistent storage, and secure human-in-the-loop workflows.
Model Development & Rigorous Evaluation: Lead hands-on development of predictive models, NLP/deep learning components, embeddings, and agent tooling. Establish evaluation baselines, gold benchmark sets, leakage controls, calibration, robustness checks, and error taxonomies.
MLOps & LLMOps Lifecycle Operations: Implement automated MLOps/LLMOps pipelines for model versioning, data lineage, CI/CD, canary/shadow deployments, real-time drift monitoring, latency/cost SLOs, incident runbooks, and automated rollback mechanisms.
Governance, Security & Responsible AI: Embed Responsible AI practices, threat modeling, red teaming, bias detection, data privacy, and GxP validation controls into all machine learning architectures.

Technical & Domain Standards

Comprehensive mastery of production Python, SQL, distributed computing, and machine learning/deep learning frameworks.
In-depth understanding of Generative AI, RAG architectures, prompt governance, agentic tool design, and vector/graph databases.

Leadership & Collaboration

Drive cross-functional alignment across product management, engineering, enterprise architecture, security, and business stakeholders while mentoring junior and mid-level AI engineers.

REQUIRED VERIFIED SKILLS

Machine Learning
Python
SQL
Generative AI
RAG
MLOps
LLMOps
Deep Learning
NLP
Agentic AI
Model Evaluation
API Development
Data Pipelines
Vector Databases

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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