Director – Research Engineering

Bristol Myers Squibb

full-time

Posted on: 10/4/2025

Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Cambridge • California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Washington • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $239,890 - $290,687 per year

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About the role

Collaborate with Research leadership to ensure clear communication, tracking and delivery of shared Research objectives.
Ensure that staffing objectives are met through onboarding and mentorship for Research Engineering full-time talent, as well as oversight of consulting resources across multiple vendors.
Provide guidance to development teams on the appropriate selection of programming languages, evaluation frameworks, security and testing methodologies, and system scalability strategies.
Collaboratively develop new data engineering approaches to accelerate data discovery, delivery and analysis, including the use of LLMs.
Provide thought leadership on emerging LLM and AI models and capabilities and drive experimentation in service to BMS use cases.
Evaluate third party data engineering and LLM solutions and manage vendor contracts.
Participate in organizational budget planning and management and provide leadership for budgeting decisions for Research Engineering.
Collaborate closely with IT to perform risk assessments on new or existing cloud architectures and vendor solutions to identify cost, scalability, or any other infrastructure management concerns.
Provide oversight and guidance regarding regulatory requirements for custom developed, commercial and/or open-source systems, including 21 CFR Part 11 , HIPAA, GDPR, GxP, etc.

Bachelor's Degree with 15+ years of academic / industry experience Or master’s degree with 12+ years of academic / industry experience Or PhD with 8+ years of academic / industry experience in an engineering or biology field.
6+ years of leadership experience
Experience building and maintaining cloud-native applications using core AWS services such as IAM, S3, Athena, Glue, Batch, Lambda, Fargate, API Gateway, Bedrock, etc.
Advanced proficiency with Python, SQL, R, database design, and at least one front end development framework (React, Angular, Streamlit, or similar).
Experience with large-scale scientific systems design and integration patterns, including mapping use cases to best practice architectural and integration patterns.
Ability to deliver performance evaluations, benchmarking, and troubleshooting of AI or LLM-based applications.
Familiarity with containerization approaches, agile methodologies, and cloud-native development patterns.
Experience building or enhancing a laboratory informatics system (LIMS), specifically in a research or drug development context.
Experience in managing budgets, and vendor contracts.

Benefits

Medical, pharmacy, dental and vision care.
Wellbeing support such as the BMS Living Life Better program and employee assistance programs (EAP).
Financial well-being resources and a 401(K).
Financial protection benefits such as short- and long-term disability, life insurance, supplemental health insurance, business travel protection and survivor support.
Work-life programs include paid national holidays and optional holidays, Global Shutdown Days between Christmas and New Year’s holiday, up to 120 hours of paid vacation, up to two (2) paid days to volunteer, sick time off, and summer hours flexibility.
Parental, caregiver, bereavement, and military leave.
Family care services such as adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, fertility/infertility benefits, support for traveling mothers, and child, elder and pet care resources.
Other perks like tuition reimbursement and a recognition program.

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