Senior AI Automation Architect — Scalable Healthcare Ops

E2E Alignment Healthcare USA, LLC; California; Hybrid; USD 172,000 - 259,000; Full time

Job summary

Alignment Health is seeking a Senior AI & Automation Engineer to design, build, and scale AI systems and enterprise automation across our Medicare Advantage operations. You will partner with AI scientists, data engineers, and product teams to deliver production-ready services and pipelines.

This senior IC role leads complex, ambiguous initiatives from concept to production, champions best practices in CI/CD, containers, and data governance, and mentors engineers while aligning with regulatory

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of professional software engineering with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or data platforms.
• Experience owning and delivering complex, production-grade distributed systems from concept through deployment.
• Experience integrating AI/ML models or LLMs into production with performance tuning.
• Experience in a regulated industry with compliance and security requirements.
• Experience building automation using RPA platforms and workflow orchestration tools.
• Preferred: Databricks platform experience (Delta Lake, MLflow, Unity Catalog).

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and scale AI systems and enterprise automation across Medicare Advantage.
• Lead integration patterns and hybrid infrastructure bridging cloud and non-cloud systems.
• Own CI/CD, containerization, and deployment standards.
• Mentor engineers and participate in hiring panels and code reviews.
• Collaborate with AI Scientists to deploy models to production and optimize performance.
• Ensure governance and responsible AI practices in production.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Data platforms

AI/ML in production

RPA platforms

Workflow orchestration

Databricks

Compliance and security

Healthcare domain

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Data Science, or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Databricks

Job description

Alignment Health is seeking a Senior AI & Automation Engineer to design, build, and scale AI systems and enterprise automation across our Medicare Advantage operations. You will partner with AI scientists, data engineers, and product teams to deliver production-ready services and pipelines.

This senior IC role leads complex, ambiguous initiatives from concept to production, champions best practices in CI/CD, containers, and data governance, and mentors engineers while aligning with regulatory