Engineer Lead (FDE) - AI Assurance and Evaluations

The Elevance Health Companies, Inc.; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) + match

Stock purchase plan

Paid holidays & PTO

Wellness programs

Job summary

Elevance Health is seeking an Engineer Lead (FDE) for AI Assurance and Evaluations in a hybrid role. The position requires in-office presence 1–2 days weekly with flexibility for remote work within commuting distance.

You will lead end-to-end system development, gather requirements, and coordinate across teams including Web and Marketing to strengthen product platforms. The role emphasizes testing, CI pipelines, and data analytics throughout AI workflows.

Qualifications

• Requires a BA/BS in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field and 7+ years of experience.
• Proficiency with Python for building evaluation utilities, test harnesses, data pipelines, and automation scripts.
• Experience with API testing (REST/JSON), including authentication patterns, contract validation, negative testing, and performance/smoke testing.

Responsibilities

• Maintains active relationships with customers to determine business requirements and leads requirements gathering meetings.
• Leads requirements gathering meetings and reviews designs with the business.
• Leads efforts with Web and marketing team to increase the presence of web products.
• May implement improvements in stability, performance, and scalability across major business-critical systems.
• Owns the change request process and coordinates with other teams as necessary.
• Develops and owns list of final enhancements.

Skills

Python

API testing

Test automation

LLM concepts

Prompting/evaluation

Data analytics

Mentoring others

Requirements gathering

Education

BA/BS in Information Technology or Computer Science

Tools

CI pipelines

Job description

Anticipated End Date: 2026-09-14 Position Title: Engineer Lead (FDE) - AI Assurance and Evaluations Job Description: Engineer Lead (FDE) – AI Assurance and Evaluations FDE – Forward Deployment Engineer

Location: This role requires associates to be in-office 1 - 2 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 Engineer Lead will be responsible for full delivery of end to end system development and maintenance on medium Enterprise wide technology platforms.

How you will make an impact

• Maintains active relationships with customers to determine business requirements and leads requirements gathering meetings.
• Primary duties may include, but are not limited to.
• Leads requirements gathering meetings and reviews designs with the business.
• Leads efforts with Web and marketing team to increase the presence of web products.
• May implement improvements in stability, performance, and scalability across major business-critical systems.
• May implement process to reduce barriers and roadblocks in projects, services, and processes in order to operate more efficiently.
• Owns the change request process and coordinates with other teams as necessary.
• Develops and owns list of final enhancements.
• Develops and defines application scope and objectives and supervises the preparation of technical and/or functional specifications from with programs will be written.
• Performs technical design reviews and code reviews.
• Ensures unit test is completed and meets the test plan requirements, system testing is completed and system is implemented according to plan.
• Responsible for delivery of application technology solutions and data information planning effort.
• Coordinates and manages on-call support and owns the system monitoring process.
• Owns the technical development environment and works on the Enterprise team.
• Leads multiple or large projects and facilitates large group JAD sessions for requirements, modeling in several disciplines.
• Leads vendor evaluation and analysis.

Minimum Requirements

Requires an BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field of study and a minimum of 7 years related experience; multi-platform, multi-dimensional experience, and expert level experience with business and technical applications; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.

Preferred Skills, Capabilities and Experiences

• Proficiency with Python for building evaluation utilities, test harnesses, data pipelines, and automation scripts.
• Experience with API testing (REST/JSON), including authentication patterns, contract validation, negative testing, and performance/smoke testing.
• Hands-on test automation experience (unit/integration/end-to-end), including building repeatable regression suites and integrating tests into CI pipelines.
• LLM basics, including core concepts such as tokens/context windows, temperature/top-p sampling, embeddings, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) fundamentals, and common failure modes (hallucinations, prompt injection, bias).
• Familiarity with prompting and evaluation frameworks (prompt versioning, test cases, golden datasets, automated scoring), including qualitative + quantitative evaluation approaches.
• Data analytics skills to measure model/application quality and operational performance (e.g., KPI definition, experiment analysis, dashboards; comfort with SQL and basic statistical concepts preferred).
• Experience mentoring others and provide troubleshooting support strongly preferred.

Job Level: Non-Management Exempt

Workshift: 1st Shift (United States of America)

Job Family: IFT > Engineering/Dev

Please be advised that Elevance Health only accepts resumes for compensation from agencies that have a signed agreement with Elevance Health. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Elevance Health.

Who We Are

Elevance Health is a health company dedicated to improving lives and communities – and making healthcare simpler. We are a Fortune 25 company with a longstanding history in the healthcare industry, looking for leaders at all levels of the organization who are passionate about making an impact on our members and the communities we serve.

How We Work

At Elevance Health, we are creating a culture that is designed to advance our strategy but will also lead to personal and professional growth for our associates. Our values and behaviors are the root of our culture. They are how we achieve our strategy, power our business outcomes and drive our shared success - for our consumers, our associates, our communities and our business.

We offer a range of market-competitive total rewards that include merit increases, paid holidays, Paid Time Off, and incentive bonus programs (unless covered by a collective bargaining agreement), medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, stock purchase plan, life insurance, wellness programs and financial education resources, to name a few.

Elevance Health operates in a Hybrid Workforce Strategy. Unless specified as primarily virtual by the hiring manager, associates are required to work at an Elevance Health location at least once per week, and potentially several times per week. Specific requirements and expectations for time onsite will be discussed as part of the hiring process.

The health of our associates and communities is a top priority for Elevance Health. We require all new candidates in certain patient/member-facing roles to become vaccinated against COVID-19 and Influenza. If you are not vaccinated, your offer will be rescinded unless you provide an acceptable explanation. Elevance Health will also follow all relevant federal, state and local laws.

Elevance Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, citizenship status, color, creed, disability, ethnicity, genetic information, gender (including gender identity and gender expression), marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other status or condition protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process should submit the following form: Accessibility Accommodation Request Form and a member of the team will be in contact.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws, including, but not limited to, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act.

Prospective employees required to be screened under Florida law should review the education and awareness resources at HB531 | Florida Agency for Health Care Administration.

NOTE: Workday keeps job postings active through 11:59:59 PM on the day before the listed end date. Example: If the end date is 3/13, the posting will automatically come down on 3/12 at 11:59:59 PM. In other words — the job is posted until 3/13, not through 3/13.

Elevance Health is a health company dedicated to improving lives and communities – and making healthcare simpler.

Previously known as Anthem, Inc., we have evolved into a company focused on whole health and updated our name to better reflect the direction the company is heading.

Fueled by our bold purpose to improve the health of humanity, we are transforming from a traditional health benefits organization into a lifetime trusted health partner. Our nearly 100,000 associates serve approximately 100M+ people, at every stage of health. We address a full range of needs with an integrated whole health approach, powered by industry-leading capabilities and a digital platform for health.

Elevance Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veterans.