AI-Native Software Engineer

Elevance Health (Anthem); Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 113,000 - 177,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Elevance Health is seeking an AI‑Native Software Engineer to ship, evaluate, secure, and support real systems. You will work with AI agents and coding assistants across the SDLC to plan, design, code, test, and deploy production‑quality software.

The role requires hands‑on experience with AI tools, cloud‑native development, and secure SDLC practices. In‑office 3 days a week, with hybrid flexibility and a focus on collaboration and delivering secure, scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or Computer Science or related field.
• 3+ years of experience across one or more platforms, multiple databases, languages or business applications.

Responsibilities

• Develop agentic AI engineering solutions and production‑quality software.
• Utilize AI coding tools across the SDLC to plan, design, code, test and deploy.
• Evaluate model quality and ensure secure handling of data and privacy.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define requirements and possible enhancements.
• Review code and mentor teams on coding standards and best practices.

Skills

Healthcare experience

Cloud-native development

APIs & microservices

CI/CD

Education

BA/BS in IT or CS

Tools

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Job description

Anticipated End Date

2026-11-06

Position Title

AI-Native Software Engineer

Job Description

AI-Native Software Engineer

PLEASE NOTE: This position is not eligible for current or future visa sponsorship

Location

This role requires associates to be in-office 3 days per week, fostering collaboration and connectivity, while providing flexibility to support productivity and work-life balance. This approach combines structured office engagement with the autonomy of virtual work, promoting a dynamic and adaptable workplace. Alternate locations may be considered if candidates reside within a commuting distance from an office.

Please note that per our policy on hybrid/virtual work, candidates not within a reasonable commuting distance from the posting location(s) will not be considered for employment, unless an accommodation is granted as required by law.

The AI-Native Software Engineer will be responsible for shipping, evaluating, securing, and supporting real systems. The ideal candidate is a strong engineer who has real hands‑on experience using AI to build and ship production‑quality software. They should be able to use AI agents and coding assistants across the SDLC: planning, design, codebase analysis, implementation, testing, documentation, code review, refactoring, deployment, and production support.

How you will make an impact

• Development on agentic AI engineering technology.
• Daily or weekly use of AI coding tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex‑style agents, or similar.
• Model evaluation and quality measurement.
• Maintains active relationships with internal and/or external stakeholder to develop business requirements.
• Analyzes and classifies complex change request and identifies and documents possible system code enhancements.
• Demonstrates knowledge of industry trends, responsible AI, data privacy, and secure handling of sensitive information.
• Collaborates with engineers and graphic designers, analyzes and classifies complex change request and reviews and evaluates possible enhancements.
• Works with development team to develop and define application scope and objectives and prepare functional and/or technical specifications.
• Analyzes and evaluates detailed business and technical requirements.
• Understands the product and analytics and drive requirements that take into account stakeholders needs.
• Identifies problems/risks.
• Codes and maintains complex components of information systems.
• Mentors others on coding standards and performs code reviews.
• Reviews test cases and advises QA on adjacent code/regression impact.
• Develops and performs system testing and fixes defects identified during testing and re‑executes unit tests to validate results.
• Aids in integrating activities with other IT departments for successful implementation and support of project efforts.
• Provides on call support and monitors the system and identifies system deficiencies.

Minimum Requirements

• Requires an BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field of study and a minimum of 3 years experience on one platform, multi database, multi language or multi business application; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.

Preferred Skills, Capabilities and Experiences

• Experience with healthcare, payer, claims, clinical, HIPAA, PHI, regulated industry, or enterprise security experience.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals including, cloud‑native development, APIs and microservices, CI/CD, automated testing, and secure SDLC strongly preferred.
• Experience building or integrating AI agents, tool/function calling, RAG, memory, model routing, evaluations, guardrails, observability, and secure API/tool access strongly preferred.
• Experience with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, including AgentCore Runtime, Memory, Identity, Gateway, Code Interpreter, Browser Tool, Observability, Evaluations, and Policy and is strongly preferred.
• Experience building LLM or SLM applications.
• Ability to review, test, and harden AI‑generated code.
• Production support experience.

Locations

• California
• Colorado
• Minnesota

Salary

For candidates working in person or virtually in the below locations, the salary* range for this specific position is $112,640 to $176,640.

* The salary range is the range Elevance Health in good faith believes is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of t

Benefits

• comprehensive benefits package
• incentive and recognition programs
• equity stock purchase
• 401k contribution

The salary offered for this specific position is based on a number of legitimate, non-discriminatory factors set by the Company. The Company is fully committed to ensuring equal pay opportunities for equal work regardless of gender, race, or any other category protected by federal, state, and local pay equity laws.