Healthcare AI Transformation Engineer - Forward-Deployed

SCAN Health Plan; Long Beach, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 216,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Base Salary support

Wellness Program

Generous PTO

11 holidays per year

401(k) with employer match

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

SCAN Health Plan is seeking a Forward Deployed AI Engineer to embed with teams, transform workflows, and design AI-powered solutions using LLMs, RAG, and automation. You will translate business needs into production systems, partnering with business leaders, product owners, and platform engineers.

The role emphasizes responsible AI, governance, and scalable architectures, with opportunities to influence adoption and impact across healthcare operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in Computer science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Deep applied understanding of LLM-based architectures, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), vector embeddings, prompt engineering, and agent orchestration.
• Experience designing, building, and deploying AI-enabled applications, services, workflows, and integrations.
• Proficiency with Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, and enterprise content management platforms (SharePoint, Microsoft 365, Teams, Confluence).
• Strong Python (or equivalent), REST APIs, ML/LLMOps tooling, and frameworks (FastAPI, LangChain, Microsoft Agent Framework, etc.).
• Ability to connect business requirements to technical solutions, develop reusable components, and improve solution adoption and operational impact.
• Collaborative communicator, comfortable engaging non-technical stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrates curiosity, initiative, and continuous learning; adapts quickly to new frameworks and technologies.
• Strong business partnering skills, self‑direction, and influence; able to define roadmaps, persuade skeptics, and drive adoption of new processes or technologies.
• Leadership - Skilled to develops others
• Business Insight - In-Depth understanding of the business
• Problem Solving - Good problem-solving skills
• Strategic Mindset - Creates strategies to sustain competitive advantage

Responsibilities

• Embed with SCAN’s teams to understand workflows, operational challenges, and strategic priorities.
• Lead discovery activities including stakeholder interviews, workflow observation, process analysis, and opportunity assessment.
• Translate ambiguous business problems into clear technical requirements and measurable success criteria.
• Build trusted relationships with SCAN leaders and serve as a strategic technology partner.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI-enabled applications using SCAN’s LLMs, AI agents, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), workflow automation, APIs, and modern software engineering practices.
• Rapidly prototype solutions, validate concepts with users, and iterate based on business feedback.
• Build production-ready software using SCAN’s enterprise AI platform, identifying opportunities to reverse-integrate any new capabilities to the core platform.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and recommend appropriate approaches based on business needs.
• Translate complex business problems into scalable, maintainable technical architectures.
• Collaborate with architects, product managers, platform engineers, data engineers, and security teams to deliver enterprise AI solutions.
• Develop reusable components, patterns, and technical assets that accelerate future AI development.
• Contribute to engineering standards, best practices, and continuous improvement across the AI organization.
• Establish measurable success metrics for AI solutions and monitor business impact after deployment.
• Continuously optimize solutions based on operational data, user feedback, and changing business needs.
• Identify additional automation and AI opportunities through ongoing engagement with business partners.
• Support organizational adoption of AI through education, coaching, and change management.
• Apply responsible AI practices, including transparency, traceability, explainability, fairness, privacy, and human oversight.
• Partner with security, compliance, legal, and governance teams to support safe and appropriate AI use.
• Document solution design, risks, controls, assumptions, and operational considerations for AI systems.
• Ensure AI solutions comply with organizational standards, regulatory requirements, and security policies.

Skills

LLM-based architectures

RAG patterns

Prompt engineering

Agent orchestration

Python

REST APIs

Azure AI Services

Collaborative communication

Strategic technology partnership

Education

Bachelor's Degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Azure AI Foundry

Confluence

Job description

SCAN Health Plan is seeking a Forward Deployed AI Engineer to embed with teams, transform workflows, and design AI-powered solutions using LLMs, RAG, and automation. You will translate business needs into production systems, partnering with business leaders, product owners, and platform engineers.

The role emphasizes responsible AI, governance, and scalable architectures, with opportunities to influence adoption and impact across healthcare operations.