[Hiring] AI Engineer IV @Premera Blue Cross

Role Description

As an AI Engineer IV, you'll contribute leadership in a team developing AI/ML solutions for complex business problems from conception to production. Your role involves guiding the solutioning of intricate challenges, leading ideation, and prototyping new AI products. With substantial experience in deploying ML algorithms and strong software engineering skills, you'll ensure the creation of reliable and maintainable AI infrastructure. Your expertise will drive innovative AI systems, mentoring junior engineers, and staying updated with cutting-edge AI research and technologies.

This is a remote/telecommuter position working from home.

What you’ll do:

• Recommend and develop comprehensive systems and frameworks for AI applications and products.
• Pitch concepts to team leadership and then lead construction of prototypes and minimum viable products to validate AI/ML solutions before committing substantial resources.
• Assist in designing and implementing the cloud architecture of large multi-faceted AI systems.
• Assist in the design and scaffolding of robust data pipelines that drive large complex AI systems.
• Develop specifications for low latency APIs and services necessary to deploy AI models and incorporate them into applications.
• Develop the code for monitoring models and AI systems that ensure consistent and reliable performance.
• Actively participate in a team that exercises principled, agile-like development practices.
• Create and maintain thorough documentation that is consistent with team procedures, corporate policies, and expectations.
• Ensure peer review on all assigned work as well as conduct peer reviews over the work of others as requested.
• Guide AI engineers on AI/ML and industry best practices and methodologies.
• Keep abreast of new tools and concepts through reading documentation or literature and actively practicing skills development.
• Advise team and division leadership on matters such as enterprise AI strategies, AI related technology strategies and roadmaps, and AI related infrastructure strategies and roadmaps.
• Meet and collaborate with external stakeholders to conceptualize AI solutions that realize business value while ensuring AI governance adherence, AI best practices, and data quality.
• Provide thought leadership to the Premera AI community.

Qualifications

• Minimum Requirements: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field, or 2+ years of experience in a related, professional IT/analytics position.
• Minimum of 5 years of industry experience in developing, deploying, and maintaining AI or ML systems. Up to two years of industry experience may be substituted with an AI centered Master’s/PhD or AI Engineering certifications.

Requirements

• At least 6 years of experience in developing deep learning models using TensorFlow, PyTorch, MLX, JAX, or other modern deep learning frameworks.
• Experience with design patterns and microservices architecture, including at least 3 years with container orchestration in a production environment.
• Knowledge of and experience in implementing ethical AI practices, with at least 3 years spent working on projects that require explainable AI, fairness, and bias mitigation.
• At least 3 years of expertise in implementing advanced techniques like Retrieval Augmented Generation, Tree of Thoughts, or Multimodal CoT in prompt engineering projects.
• Minimum of 4 years of experience in successfully productionizing AI models, including constructing scalable data pipelines and establishing robust monitoring systems.
• At least 5 years working within Agile-like teams and environments.

Benefits

• Medical, vision, and dental coverage with low employee premiums.
• Voluntary benefit offerings, including pet insurance for paw parents.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Retirement programs, including a 401K employer match and a pension plan that is vested after 3 years of service.
• Wellness incentives with a wide range of mental well-being resources for you and your dependents.
• Generous paid time off to reenergize.
• Tuition assistance for both undergraduate and graduate degrees.
• Employee recognition program to celebrate anniversaries, team accomplishments, and more.
• Commuter perks and free convenient on-site parking.
• Subsidized on-campus cafes.
• Participate in engaging on-site activities such as health and wellness events.
• Access to a complementary fitness & well-being center.