Senior AI & Automation Architect (Cloud-Native, Healthcare)

Alignment Health; Sacramento (CA); On-site; USD 172,000 - 259,000; Full time

Job summary

Alignment Health is seeking a Senior AI & Automation Engineer to lead the design, build, and scale of enterprise AI systems for our Medicare Advantage workloads. You will own production pipelines and collaborate with AI Scientists, Data Engineers, and Product teams to deliver reliable, compliant cloud-native services across claims processing, risk adjustment, and member engagement.

In this role you will set automation standards, drive CI/CD and containerization adoption, and mentor senior

Qualifications

• Proven track record delivering distributed systems.
• Experience building and scaling hybrid infrastructure connecting cloud-native and non-API/legacy systems.
• Experience serving and integrating AI/ML models or LLMs in production, performance tuning.

Responsibilities

• Lead the build of distributed, cloud-native systems for enterprise workloads.
• Own CI/CD, containerization, and deployment standards (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Own data and automation pipeline reliability and orchestration.
• Mentor engineers and shape engineering culture; participate in hiring and technical interviews.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Data platforms

AI/ML in prod

RPA

Workflow orchestration

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Eng/Math/DS

Master's degree in CS or related

Tools

Databricks

Job description

Alignment Health is seeking a Senior AI & Automation Engineer to lead the design, build, and scale of enterprise AI systems for our Medicare Advantage workloads. You will own production pipelines and collaborate with AI Scientists, Data Engineers, and Product teams to deliver reliable, compliant cloud-native services across claims processing, risk adjustment, and member engagement.

In this role you will set automation standards, drive CI/CD and containerization adoption, and mentor senior