At Bristol Myers Squibb, our employees often ask, “Who are you working for?”—a question that fuels collaboration, accountability, and urgency in our work. Our purpose-driven culture inspires us to discover, develop, and deliver innovative medicines to prevail over serious diseases. We offer uniquely interesting and meaningful work, opportunities for growth, and a supportive environment that values inclusion, wellbeing, flexibility, and comprehensive benefits. This is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it.

Summary:

Bristol Myers Squibb is seeking a Software Engineer to join the AI Engineering and Enablement team at their New Jersey office. This role will focus on developing, testing, maintaining, and enhancing software applications and components that support business and technology needs. 

The ideal candidate will have strong software engineering fundamentals, hands-on programming experience, and familiarity with modern development practices. The candidate should also be comfortable using AI-assisted development tools or AI agents to help write, test, debug, and improve code as part of day-to-day software development. 

This role is best suited for someone with at least 2 years of software development experience and at least 1 year of exposure to AI-related development, AI-enabled applications, or AI-assisted software engineering. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop, test, maintain, and enhance software applications and components using modern programming languages such as Python, JavaScript, Java, Go, or similar languages. 

• Write clean, secure, maintainable, and efficient code following established software development standards and best practices.

• Collaborate with engineers, product owners, and business users to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.

• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve application issues, escalating risks or complex problems when needed.

• Participate in code reviews and contribute to improvements in code quality, testing, and development practices.

• Support integration of applications with APIs, databases, cloud services, and software tools.

• Use AI-assisted development tools or AI agents to support coding, testing, debugging, and documentation.

• Contribute to continuous improvement of development processes, agile engineering practices, and secure application development. 

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Minimum of 2 years of professional software development experience.

• Minimum of 1 year of exposure to AI development, AI-enabled applications, automation, or AI-assisted software engineering. 

• Experience with at least one modern programming language, preferably Python.

• Understanding of software development fundamentals, including application design, APIs, testing, debugging, and version control.

• Familiarity with Git or similar version control systems.

• Basic understanding of cloud-based application development, preferably AWS.

• Strong problem-solving, communication, and teamwork skills. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience with AWS services such as S3, Lambda, Fargate, API Gateway, or CloudWatch.

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and deployment practices.

• Exposure to REST APIs, microservices, serverless applications, or application integrations.

• Familiarity with SQL or NoSQL databases.

• Experience using AI-assisted development tools or AI agents in day-to-day software development.

• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum development methodologies. 

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We hire for skills and capabilities, not just credentials – if this role excites you, but doesn’t perfectly match your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway.

The starting pay range(s) listed above is for full-time employees (FTE). You may also be eligible for additional discretionary incentive cash and stock opportunities. We determine starting pay thoughtfully – carefully considering the nature of the role, required skills, work location, schedule and the knowledge and experience you bring. Final compensation is guided by pay equity principles and applicable employment laws. Compensation programs are reviewed on an ongoing basis and may be adjusted over time to reflect evolving market factors, and individual, team or Company performance.

Benefits:

Subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans then in effect, you may be eligible to participate in our comprehensive benefit plans – including wellbeing support, retirement and financial protection benefits, and insurance offerings (medical, dental, vision, life and disability).

U.S.-based exempt employees are eligible for Flexible Time Off (FTO), which provides paid time off without a set accrual limit, subject to manager approval, along with 11 paid company holidays each year.

Non-exempt employees, RayzeBio employees, and employees located in Puerto Rico receive 160 hours of paid vacation annually for new hires (subject to manager approval), 11 paid company holidays, and 3 optional holidays.

Depending on eligibility, employees may also have access to additional time-off benefits, including paid sick leave, up to two paid volunteer days per year, summer hours flexibility, and leaves of absence for medical, personal, parental, caregiver, bereavement, or military needs. Eligible employees also enjoy an annual Global Shutdown between Christmas Day and New Year's Day.

U.S.-based job seekers can explore full benefit offerings at https://careers.bms.com/benefits

How We Work

Where you work matters – because collaboration, innovation and patient impact happen in many settings. Our roles are structured across four work models: site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design. The model assigned to this role is based on its core responsibilities. Learn more at https://careers.bms.com/ways-of-working.

Supporting People with Disabilities

BMS is dedicated to ensuring that people with disabilities can excel through a transparent recruitment process, reasonable workplace accommodations/adjustments and ongoing support in their roles. Applicants can request a reasonable workplace accommodation/adjustment prior to accepting a job offer. If you require reasonable accommodations/adjustments in completing this application, or in any part of the recruitment process, direct your inquiries to [email protected]. Visit careers.bms.com/eeo-accessibility to access our complete Equal Employment Opportunity statement.

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BMS will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, pursuant to applicable laws in your area.

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