About the Role
As a Senior Data Scientist in the AI Venture Studio delivery team, you will act as a hands-on individual contributor converting scientific and business opportunities into AI product hypotheses, experiments, and solutions. You will collaborate with cross-functional engineering and product teams to build and evaluate AI systems across R&D, Commercialization, and Manufacturing, focusing on the intersection of applied data science and AI engineering.
Responsibilities
- Frame business and scientific questions into measurable AI product hypotheses, success metrics, and evaluation plans.
- Contribute to agile AI Accelerator cycles by testing hypotheses and validating product increments.
- Build data science prototypes using Python, SQL, notebooks, and AWS-aligned data services.
- Support sandboxed data problem solving in non-production environments.
- Evaluate and curate analytical context for AI agents, including instructions, memory, and data tools.
- Develop analytical features, embeddings, classifiers, and optimization methods.
- Partner with Data Engineers to shape reliable datasets, retrieval corpora, and feature pipelines.
- Design and execute evaluations for LLM, RAG, and agentic workflows.
- Build evaluation rubrics, golden datasets, and error taxonomies to measure model quality and hallucination risk.
- Define KPIs and analytical measurement plans for AI products.
- Apply statistical modeling, experimental design, and causal inference to measure product impact.
- Create visualizations and narratives to communicate model behavior and opportunities to stakeholders.
- Contribute reusable notebooks, analytics templates, and data science patterns.
- Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and technical problem-solving.
- Coach peers on data science, evaluation design, and evidence-based decision making.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or higher degree in Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Applied Mathematics, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in data science, machine learning, applied AI, analytics, or computational science.
- Proficiency in Python, SQL, and R.
- Experience applying machine learning, statistics, NLP, information retrieval, or decision science to real-world products.
- Experience with LLM applications, RAG, agentic AI, and prompt/evaluation design.
- Familiarity with AWS data and AI services such as S3, Athena, RDS/PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, SageMaker, and Bedrock.
- Experience with evaluation rubrics, hallucination risk measurement, and causal inference.
- Familiarity with vector databases, knowledge graphs, and data quality practices.
- Experience communicating quantitative findings to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Effective use of coding agents or AI-assisted development tools.
Skills
- Python
- SQL
- R
- Pandas
- NumPy
- scikit-learn
- PyTorch
- TensorFlow
- statsmodels
- Machine Learning
- Statistics
- NLP
- Information Retrieval
- LLM Applications
- RAG
- Agentic AI
- Prompt Engineering
- Evaluation Design
- AWS Data and AI Services
- Vector Databases
- Knowledge Graphs
- Causal Inference
- Streamlit
Location
- Cambridge, MA
- Madison, NJ
- Princeton, NJ
- Seattle, WA
Work Type
- Full-time
- Site-by-design (Hybrid)
Experience Level
- 5+ years of experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree or higher
Salary/Compensations
- Cambridge Crossing: $151,280 - $183,319
- Madison - Giralda - NJ - US: $137,530 - $166,654
- Princeton - NJ - US: $137,530 - $166,654
- Seattle - WA: $151,280 - $183,319
Benefits
- Medical, pharmacy, dental, and vision care
- BMS Well-Being Account and Employee Assistance Programs
- 401(k) plan
- Short- and long-term disability
- Life, accident, and supplemental health insurance
- Business travel and personal liability protection
- Identity theft and legal support
- Flexible time off
- 11 paid national holidays
- Paid volunteer days
- Summer hours flexibility
- Leaves of absence for medical, personal, parental, caregiver, bereavement, and military needs
- Annual Global Shutdown between Christmas and New Years Day
About the Company
- Bristol Myers Squibb is a biopharmaceutical company focused on transforming patients' lives through science.
- The company fosters a culture of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion, and integrity.
Equal Opportunity
- BMS is dedicated to ensuring that people with disabilities can excel through a transparent recruitment process and reasonable workplace accommodations.
- BMS will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, pursuant to applicable laws.
