Principal Data Engineer, AI Enablement

Job overview

The Principal Data Engineer, AI Enablement role is onsite in North Chicago, IL, with compensation not specified. The position supports AbbVie’s data capabilities for AI and machine-learning use cases across the pharmaceutical value chain. AbbVie’s mission is to deliver innovative medicines and solutions for serious health issues. The engineer designs and maintains scalable, AI-ready data solutions and helps operationalize machine-learning models. Through technical leadership and cross-functional collaboration, the role enables data mining, knowledge extraction, automation, and continued development of AI applications.

What you'll do

• Collaborate with engineers, architects, data scientists, business system analysts, and product owners
• design, develop, and maintain scalable AI-ready data solutions
• integrate large language models for data mining, knowledge extraction, and automation
• operationalize machine-learning models through deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management
• translate user requirements into data models for graph analytics, semantic reasoning, and generative AI
• recommend tools and platforms for graph databases, vector stores, and language-model integration
• advise partners on emerging AI data technologies
• follow software development lifecycle policies and procedures.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

full-time

north chicago il

abbvie

principal data engineer

ai enablement

machine learning

mlops

llm integration

graph rag

python

sql

data pipelines

pharmaceutical data

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Eligible employees receive paid time off, medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), and eligibility to participate in long-term incentive programs.

Why this role

Requires a bachelor’s degree and 8 years of experience, a master’s degree and 7 years, or a PhD and 3 years. Required experience includes MLOps, LLM integration, data agents, agentic memory, Graph RAG, text mining, unstructured data processing, data pipelines, Python, SQL, and distributed processing frameworks such as Spark.

About the employer

AbbVie is hiring for this role. Industry: Pharmaceutical Preparation Manufacturing. Sector: 32.