Senior AI Engineer IV — Remote ML Solutions Leader

Premera Blue Cross; Missouri; Remote; USD 132,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

Premera Blue Cross is seeking an AI Engineer IV to lead and mentor a team building scalable AI/ML solutions from concept to production. The role emphasizes guiding solutioning, prototype development, and deploying reliable AI infrastructure.

You will collaborate across teams to design data pipelines and APIs for low latency AI services, ensure governance and best practices, and stay current with cutting‑edge AI research.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field, or 2+ years of experience in a related, professional IT/analytics position.
• Minimum of 5 years of industry experience in developing, deploying, and maintaining AI or ML systems. Up to two years of industry experience may be substituted with an AI centered Master’s/PhD or AI Engineering certifications.

Responsibilities

• Recommend and develop comprehensive systems and frameworks for AI applications and products.
• Pitch concepts to team leadership and then lead construction of prototypes and minimum viable products to validate AI/ML solutions before committing substantial resources.
• Assist in designing and implementing the cloud architecture of large multi-faceted AI systems.
• Assist in the design and scaffolding of robust data pipelines that drive large complex AI systems.
• Develop specifications for low latency APIs and services necessary to deploy AI models and incorporate them into applications.
• Develop the code for monitoring models and AI systems that ensure consistent and reliable performance.
• Actively participate in a team that exercises principled, agile‑like development practices.
• Create and maintain thorough documentation that is consistent with team procedures, corporate policies, and expectations.
• Ensure peer review on all assigned work as well as conduct peer reviews over the work of others as requested.
• Guide AI engineers on AI/ML and industry best practices and methodologies.
• Keep abreast of new tools and concepts through reading documentation or literature and actively practicing skills development.
• Advise team and division leadership on matters such as enterprise AI strategies, AI related technology strategies and roadmaps, and AI related infrastructure strategies and roadmaps.
• Meet and collaborate with external stakeholders to conceptualize AI solutions that realize business value while ensuring AI governance adherence, AI best practices, and data quality.
• Provide thought leadership to the Premera AI community.

Skills

Deep learning architectures

Hyperparameter tuning

Python

Microservices

Explainable AI

Prompt engineering

Agile teams

Education

Degree in CS/Stats/Math

2+ years related IT/analytics

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Streamlit/Shiny

NumPy/Pandas/Matplotlib

scikit-learn

Job description

Premera Blue Cross is seeking an AI Engineer IV to lead and mentor a team building scalable AI/ML solutions from concept to production. The role emphasizes guiding solutioning, prototype development, and deploying reliable AI infrastructure.

You will collaborate across teams to design data pipelines and APIs for low latency AI services, ensure governance and best practices, and stay current with cutting‑edge AI research.