Software Engineer

Working with Us
Challenging. Meaningful. Life-changing. Those aren’t words that are usually associated with a job. But working at Bristol Myers Squibb is anything but usual. Here, uniquely interesting work happens every day, in every department. From optimizing a production line to the latest breakthroughs in cell therapy, this is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it. You’ll get the chance to grow and thrive through opportunities uncommon in scale and scope, alongside high-achieving teams. Take your career farther than you thought possible.

Bristol Myers Squibb recognizes the importance of balance and flexibility in our work environment. We offer a wide variety of competitive benefits, services and programs that provide our employees with the resources to pursue their goals, both at work and in their personal lives. Read more: careers.bms.com/working-with-us.

Our Team

The Digital Lab (Fusion Team) is a business-embedded team within Global Product Development & Supply (GPS). We sit inside the business — not IT — and our job is to rapidly translate operational challenges into working prototypes, analytical applications, and AI-powered tools. We work shoulder-to-shoulder with manufacturing, supply chain, quality, and product development stakeholders to accelerate data-driven decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

Build Applications That Deliver Business Value

• Take data products, ML model outputs, and AI agent responses and turn them into interactive, user-facing web applications and prototypes.
• Design and build both the frontend experience and backend services needed to deliver a complete working solution.
• Build interfaces that consume AI/LLM outputs — including streaming responses, multi-step reasoning, and dynamically generated visualizations.
• Create intuitive user flows for human-in-the-loop workflows — feedback, validation, approvals.

Own the UI Experience for the Lab

• Serve as the team's go-to person for UI decisions — propose layout options, interaction patterns, and visual approaches for each prototype.
• Apply practical UI/UX sensibility to ensure prototypes are usable, clean, and understandable without requiring a dedicated design resource.
• Build and maintain a lightweight library of reusable UI components, patterns, and templates that the team can leverage across projects.
• Translate business requirements directly into interface concepts — sketching options, mocking up alternatives, and moving quickly to code.

Move Fast and Iterate

• Operate with a prototyping mindset — ship a working version quickly, put it in front of users, learn, iterate.
• Choose the right tool for each problem rather than defaulting to a fixed stack — the best framework is whichever one solves the problem fastest.
• Own your applications end-to-end — from frontend to backend to deployment.

Collaborate Across the Digital Lab

• Partner with Data Products Engineers on how data is shaped and delivered for application consumption.
• Work with Data Scientists to define how model outputs and AI agent responses are presented to users.
• Engage directly with business stakeholders to understand workflows, gather feedback, and validate that what you've built actually works for them.
• Proactively present UI options and alternatives to the team and stakeholders — you bring visual thinking to a data-and-model-heavy team.

Keep It Production-Worthy (When It Needs to Be)

• Apply sound engineering practices — testing, version control, containerization, security basics — proportional to the maturity of each application.
• Know when a prototype should stay scrappy and when it needs to be hardened for broader use.
• Work with centralized IT teams for infrastructure, hosting, and production support when applications graduate beyond prototyping.

Qualifications / Education

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction, Design Engineering, or a related field.

Experience & Skills Required

• 3–7 years of hands-on software engineering experience with a strong portfolio of shipped applications or prototypes — not just contributions to large codebases.
• Strong frontend and UI development skills — modern JavaScript/TypeScript, component-based frameworks (React, Vue, or equivalent), responsive and accessible UI development, and a good eye for layout, spacing, and visual hierarchy.
• Solid backend skills — API design and development in Python or Node.js, database fundamentals, integration patterns.
• Ability to propose and execute on UI options independently — from quick whiteboard sketches to coded prototypes — without waiting for a dedicated designer.
• Experience building applications that consume and present data-heavy or AI/ML outputs — dashboards, real-time interfaces, data visualizations, or conversational UIs.
• Comfortable with the basics of DevOps — containerization, CI/CD, cloud deployment — enough to ship your own work without relying on a separate platform team.
• Excellent communication skills — you'll work directly with non-technical business stakeholders and need to understand their problems, not just their tickets.
• A builder's mindset — you default to "let me try something" over "let me write a spec." You're energized by ambiguity and speed.

Preferred / Nice-to-Have

• An eye for design — experience with design systems, component libraries (e.g., Material UI, Ant Design, Chakra UI), or lightweight user research and usability testing.
• Experience with AI-powered applications — LLM-based interfaces, streaming AI responses, agent integrations.
• Experience in regulated industries — pharma, healthcare, life sciences.
• Familiarity with data engineering and data science workflows — understanding how data pipelines and models work, even if you don't build them yourself.
• Experience with rapid prototyping environments — startups, innovation labs, hackathons, or similar.
• Familiarity with design/prototyping tools (e.g., Figma, Sketch) — not as a designer, but enough to communicate ideas visually.

What Sets This Role Apart

• You're the UI voice on a data-and-AI team. You don't just build what's specced — you propose how things should look and feel, and you bring options to the table.
• Speed over polish. This is a prototyping lab, not an enterprise platform team. Ship fast, learn fast.
• Full ownership. Frontend, backend, deployment — you own the whole stack for your applications.
• AI-native. You'll build interfaces for agentic AI, streaming LLMs, and ML predictions — this isn't standard CRUD.
• Business-embedded. You see users use your work. You hear their feedback the same day. Your impact is immediate.
• No dedicated UX resource needed. You bring enough UI/UX sensibility that the team can move fast without a separate design function for prototyping work.

If you come across a role that intrigues you but doesn’t perfectly line up with your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be one step away from work that will transform your life and career.

Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers
With a single vision as inspiring as “Transforming patients’ lives through science™ ”, every BMS employee plays an integral role in work that goes far beyond ordinary. Each of us is empowered to apply our individual talents and unique perspectives in a supportive culture, promoting global participation in clinical trials, while our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.

On-site Protocol

BMS has an occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design jobs. The occupancy type that you are assigned is determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role:

Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.

Supporting People with Disabilities

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