Senior Data Scientist, Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS)

AbbVie

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
North Chicago, IL
Salary
$109,500–$208,500 / yr
Posted
52 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday
Closes
Jul 20, 2126

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Similar $157k
This role $159k
$88k most similar roles pay here $222k

This role pays less than 54% of similar roles. Most pay $126,800–$187,040 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $159k versus about $157k for comparable roles.

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About AbbVie

AbbVie is a global biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and delivering innovative medicines and solutions in immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care. Its products include Humira, Skyrizi, and Rinvoq.

AbbVie currently has 297 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $109,500–$208,500 across 271 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Data Scientist, Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS)

The Senior Data Scientist, Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) joins the Global EHS organization to lead the strategy and implementation of agentic and generative AI capabilities. This role focuses on building production-ready solutions such as intelligent agents, retrieval-augmented generation workflows, semantic search, predictive risk models, and automated tools to improve decision quality and compliance. The candidate will translate complex business needs into technical requirements while collaborating with data engineering, governance, and legal teams to ensure systems are secure and explainable. Key responsibilities include developing advanced analytics for identifying emerging risks using structured and unstructured data sources and establishing reusable AI patterns and evaluation libraries. Required skills include expertise in natural language processing, machine learning, and predictive analytics to solve critical safety and sustainability challenges within the pharmaceutical industry context.

What does a Data Scientist earn?

Median $162025 from 276 postings across 61 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Lead the strategy, roadmap, and execution of agentic and generative AI capabilities for the Global EHS organization.
  • Design and scale AI solutions including intelligent agents, RAG workflows, predictive risk models, and automated tools.
  • Translate complex EHS business challenges into technical data science requirements and production-ready AI products.
  • Ensure all AI solutions are secure, compliant, explainable, and aligned with corporate governance and privacy standards.
  • Establish reusable AI patterns, prompt libraries, and monitoring practices to accelerate consistent adoption across the enterprise.
  • Develop advanced machine learning models to identify emerging compliance, injury, and sustainability risks from structured and unstructured data.
  • Improve EHS data infrastructure, metadata quality, and governance to support large-scale analytics and automation.
  • Communicate AI performance, risks, and business value to both technical teams and senior leadership.

What we're looking for

  • A Bachelor's degree with 7 years of experience, a Master's degree with 6 years of experience, or a PhD with 2 years of experience is required.
  • Experience in life sciences or the pharmaceutical industry is preferred.
  • Candidates must possess a thorough theoretical and practical understanding of their own discipline.
  • Proven implementation of creative technology solutions that advanced the business is required.
  • Excellent written and oral English communication skills are required.

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