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Abbvie US LLC

AI Engineer

North Chicago, IL, US Posted today

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Skills this job asks for

LLMsPythonSQLData engineeringCI/CDGitDockerPostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBRedisAirflow

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Sponsorship verdict

Sponsorship possible

One solid signal, not two. Worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.

  • Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 177 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first.
  • The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
  • No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area.
  • What Abbvie US LLC paid sponsored hires in similar roles7 certified filings for “Senior Data Engineer” (Database Architects) in IL: $116k–$195k, median $165k.
  • Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
Details and sources
Employer is on a government sponsor record
The US Department of Labor certified 177 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
No salary bar for this route
H-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
What Abbvie US LLC paid sponsored hires in similar roles
7 certified filings for “Senior Data Engineer” (Database Architects) in IL: $116k–$195k, median $165k. Most were filed at wage level IV (43%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).

US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).

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About the role

This entry-level AI Engineer will work under close supervision to apply developing technical knowledge in Software Engineering and Generative AI, performing analytic, testing, modeling, and development tasks on smaller projects, and independently on larger, more complex assignments. The role will help design, build, and deploy AI-enabled software solutions, including LLM-powered applications, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, and model-serving APIs, to meet business requirements. Responsibilities: • Perform assigned technical and analytic tasks using established methods and tools, documents methods and results, and escalate novel or ambiguous issues. • Support development of AI-enabled applications and fix straightforward defects under close supervision. • Build and maintain components of LLM-based solutions, including API integrations, prompt and tool/function-calling workflows, and basic RAG pipelines (chunking, embeddings, vector search). • Clean, transform, and analyze data with Python, SQL, and data libraries; build simple ETL steps and visualizations. • Execute assigned test cases, including unit tests and basic retrieval or model evaluations, and help reproduce reported issues. • Serve models and AI services through RESTAPIs and containers, prepare simple configuration changes, and follow deployment runbooks. • Track experiments and model versions and support monitoring and CI/CD processes. • Document work and escalation steps in tickets and knowledge base entries. • Learn codebase, development workflows, and platform fundamentals through pairing and code reviews. • Produce reliable technical outputs, follow quality and safety standards (including AI guardrails), document reproducible methods and records, and communicate progress and risks to project leads. • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or relevant STEM certification. • Problem decomposition, clear communication, reading documentation, collaborating through code review, and explaining results to non-technical people. • Python and Software Fundamentals • Core language: data types, control flow, functions, OOP, comprehensions, generators, decorators, exceptions, file I/O, virtual environments (venv, pip / uv) • Data libraries: NumPy, pandas (cleaning, joins, groupby, time series) • Visualization: Matplotlib, Seaborn, Plotly • Code quality: type hints, unit testing (pytest), logging, PEP 8, packaging • APIs and web: requests, REST concepts, FastAPI or Flask to serve models, async basics • Tooling: Git/GitHub, Jupyter, VS Code, Docker basics • Databases • SQL (essential): SELECT, WHERE, JOINs, GROUP BY, HAVING, subqueries, CTEs, window functions, indexes, query optimization • Relational databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, or SQLite; schema design, normalization, primary and foreign keys, transactions • Python connectivity: SQLAlchemy, psycopg2, pandas.read_sql • NoSQL: MongoDB (documents), Redis (caching) • Vector databases (AI-specific): embeddings, similarity search, and tools such as pgvector, Chroma, FAISS, Pinecone • Data pipelines: ETL basics, data warehouses, Airflow concepts • Modern GenAI Skills • LLM APIs: Anthropic, OpenAI, structured outputs, tool/function calling • RAG: chunking, embeddings, vector search, retrieval evaluation • Frameworks: LangChain or LlamaIndex (know the basics, but understand what's underneath) • Agents: tool use, multi-step workflows, basic evaluation, and guardrails • MLOps and Deployment • Model serving: FastAPI, Docker • Experiment tracking: MLflow, Weights & Biases • Cloud basics: AWS, Azure, or GCP • CI/CD basics, monitoring, model versioning ​Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements unde

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