Principal Engineer, Platform Engineering & AI Enablement

Overview

Alkermes is building the next generation of cloud, data, and AI capabilities to accelerate innovation across the enterprise. We are seeking a Principal Engineer to define and build the foundational platforms, automation, and engineering practices that enable secure, scalable, and reliable delivery of modern applications, analytics, and artificial intelligence solutions.

This individual will lead the engineering foundations that support enterprise AI initiatives, including large language models, generative AI applications, model lifecycle management, observability, governance, and secure deployment. The role partners with INDIGO, Security, Infrastructure, Data Analytics, and delivery teams to simplify processes, improve developer productivity, and enable cloud, data, and artificial intelligence solutions.

The role reports to the Senior Director, Emerging Technology and Engineering and follows a hybrid schedule of three days per week in the Waltham office. Success in this role will accelerate solution delivery, improve platform reliability, reduce operational overhead, and enable the secure adoption of AI technologies across Alkermes.

Why join Team Alkermes?

Alkermes applies its decades of deep neuroscience expertise to develop medicines designed to help people living with complex and difficult-to-treat psychiatric and neurological disorders. A global biopharmaceutical company, headquartered in Ireland with U.S. locations in Massachusetts and Ohio, we seek to make a meaningful difference in the way people manage their diseases. We have a portfolio of proprietary commercial products for the treatment of alcohol dependence, opioid dependence, schizophrenia, bipolar I disorder and narcolepsy, and a pipeline of clinical and preclinical candidates in development for various psychiatric and neurological disorders.

We are proud to have been recognized as an employer of choice by many national organizations. In 2024 and 2025, we were certified as a Great Place to Work in the U.S. and named one of Massachusetts’ Top Places to Work by the Boston Globe, a Best Place to Work in Greater Cincinnati by the Cincinnati Business Courier and recognized as a Best Place to Work in BioPharma by Fortune Magazine.

Alkermes, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any qualified applicant or employee because of race, creed, color, age, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender expression and identity, disability, genetic information, veteran status, military status, application for military service or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal law. Alkermes also complies with all work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA. Alkermes is an E-Verify employer.

Degree LevelBachelor's Degree