Agentic AI Engineer — Build Production AI for Healthcare

Zelis Healthcare, LLC; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 163,000 - 224,000; Full time

Job summary

Zelis, a healthcare AI and software company, seeks an Agentic AI Engineer to solve complex healthcare challenges by building production-ready AI agents and workflows. You will work with senior leaders, engineers, and domain experts to identify high-value AI opportunities and deliver scalable solutions from discovery to launch.

You will partner with internal teams to design, build, and deploy agentic AI solutions that improve financial workflows, decision support, and operational efficiency,

Qualifications

• 3–5 years building software or AI products in startups or similar fast-moving environments.
• Experience delivering production software or AI solutions from prototype through launch.
• Experience with LLMs, agents, RAG, tool use, APIs, or modern AI frameworks.
• Ability to collaborate with internal business stakeholders or customers to understand complex problems and translate needs into practical solutions.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals in at least one modern programming language.
• Experience deploying cloud-based production systems.
• Ability to evaluate agent behavior, system performance, and guardrails.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and owning problems from discovery through handoff.
• Strong communication skills with both technical and business stakeholders.
• Evidence of curiosity and hands-on experimentation with AI through work, open source, personal projects, agents, or automation.

Responsibilities

• Partner with internal business leaders and engineers to identify high-value AI opportunities.
• Translate complex healthcare business problems into scalable agentic AI solutions.
• Apply AI where reasoning and ambiguity require it, while using deterministic software for reliability.
• Design, build, and deploy production-ready AI agents and applications.
• Build agent workflows, tool integrations, APIs, data pipelines, and orchestration layers.
• Work directly with stakeholders through discovery, implementation, launch, and handoff.
• Improve automation, decision support, accuracy, and operational efficiency.
• Identify reusable agentic patterns that strengthen the core platform.
• Tackle ambiguous problems where there isn't an existing playbook.
• Validate outcomes, establish guardrails, and transition solutions to long-term owning teams.

Skills

Software engineering

AI products

LLMs/AI frameworks

Cloud deployments

APIs

Data pipelines

Tools

APIs

Data pipelines

Agentic AI tooling

Job description

Zelis, a healthcare AI and software company, seeks an Agentic AI Engineer to solve complex healthcare challenges by building production-ready AI agents and workflows. You will work with senior leaders, engineers, and domain experts to identify high-value AI opportunities and deliver scalable solutions from discovery to launch.

You will partner with internal teams to design, build, and deploy agentic AI solutions that improve financial workflows, decision support, and operational efficiency,