Principal Research Data Scientist (Hybrid) (North Chicago)

Principal Research Data Scientist (Hybrid)

• Full-time
• Salary Min: 124500
• Salary Max: 236500
• Workday Global Grade: 19
• Travel: Yes, 5% of the Time
• Compensation: USD 124500 - USD 236500 - yearly

About AbbVie

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology, and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at . Follow @abbvie onLinkedIn, Facebook ,Instagram ,X andYouTube.

AbbVie Information Research seeks a Principal Research Data Scientist to design, architect, and developAIdata solutions that drive the advancement of our AI and machine learning ecosystem. In this role, you will collaborate closely with data engineers, data scientists, architects, andbusinessanalysts to support world-class research and development, foster technological innovation, and promote continuous improvement.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate withcrossfunctional team ofarchitects,data scientists, business systemanalysts,and productownersto understand requirementsand deliver fit for purpose solutions.
• Design, develop, andmaintainscalableAI readydatasolutionsfordiverse data sets tosupportpharmaR&Dvalue chain.
• Supportprojects involving the integration of LLMs (such as GPT orClaude orsimilartechnologies) for data mining, knowledge extraction, and automation of data-driven insights.
• Capture and interpret user requirements into expressive data models that enable graph analytics, semantic reasoning, and GenAI integration.
• Research and recommendappropriate tools, frameworks, and platforms for graph databases, vector stores, and large languagemodelsintegrationincludingagent-basedsolutions.
• Provide technical leadership,act asa subject matter expert and advisor to partners on the feasibility and impact of emerging technologies in the AI data space.
• Architect solutions to operationalize machine learning models, including model deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
• Ensure compliance with applicable AbbVie software development,lifecycle policies, and procedures.
• Present complexgraphsand GenAI relationships through visualizations, translating technical results into business insights.Create compelling data-driven presentations and dashboards for executives, project sponsors, and non-technical audiences.

Required:

• Bachelor's Degree with 8 years’ experience; Master's Degree with 7 years’ experience; PhD with 3 years’ experience.
• Must have experience withNeo4j& Elastic Search database technologies.
• Must haveexperiencewith supporting AI/MLinitiatives including LLM integration, Data Agents, AgenticMemory,andGraphRAG systems.
• Must have experience with text mining andunstructured data processing.
• Must haveexperiencewithPharmaceuticalR&Dindustry-centric datasets.

Preferred:

• Background in life sciences or work experience in the pharmaceutical industry preferred

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Companybelieves ingood faith it will pay for this role at the timeof this posting based on the job grade for this position.Individualcompensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, andwemayultimatelypaymore or less than the posted range. This range may bemodifiedin thefuture.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick),medical/dental/visioninsurance and 401(k) to eligibleemployees.
• This job is eligible toparticipatein our long-term incentiveprograms.

Note: No amount of payis considered to bewages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, anddeterminable.The amount and availability of any bonus,commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form ofcompensation and benefitsthat are allocable to a particular employeeremainsin the Company's sole andabsolutediscretion unless and until paid andmay bemodifiedat the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent withapplicable law.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.