Senior Ontology Engineer

Company Description

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 – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

Come to work each day with an inclusive and collaborative Business technology team! As a Senior Ontology Engineer in AbbVie Business Technology Solutions (BTS), you’ll have opportunities to contribute to the digital transformation of a leading biopharma company, helping to create solutions that impact patients and their communities for the better.

***This a hybrid role based in Lake County***

Purpose 

About our Team

The RDA (Reference Data Architecture) team provides comprehensive ontologies and services to manage and semantically map diverse controlled vocabularies throughout our pipeline. We aim to make company-wide data FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) and unite common meta data in a single reference data architecture.  

In partnership with AbbVie’s EPIC team, our company-internal software incubator, dedicated to building and scaling cutting-edge technology products for internal use, we are building an enterprise ontology service layer to support, among others, our generative AI and large language model (LLM) capabilities to derive new insights and improve existing processes with our partners from all over the business. Join this global collaborative team in a flexible work environment to help AbbVie make a remarkable impact on people’s lives. 

As a Senior Ontology Engineer, you will be responsible for  

• Working with a team of experts to create and maintain an enterprise ontology service layer to provide common access to ontology information within AbbVie 

• Demonstrating the benefits of using ontologies in conjunction with our in-house AI/LLM capabilities to produce m