Senior AI Engineer — ML Systems & Leadership (Remote)

Premera Blue Cross; Carson City (NV); Remote; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, vision, and dental coverage

Life and disability insurance

401K employer match and pension

Tuition assistance

Job summary

Premera Blue Cross is hiring an AI Engineer IV for a remote role in the United States. You will lead AI/ML solutions from concept to production, mentor engineers, and shape governance and data-quality practices across the team.

You will design scalable data pipelines, build low-latency APIs, and guide senior engineers on AI strategy while collaborating with stakeholders to deliver business value.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field, or 2+ years of experience in a related IT/analytics position.
• Minimum of 5 years of industry experience in developing, deploying, and maintaining AI/ML systems. Up to two years of industry experience may be substituted with an AI centered Master's/PhD or AI Engineering certifications.
• At least 6 years of experience in developing deep learning models using TensorFlow, PyTorch, MLX, JAX, or other modern deep learning frameworks.
• Knowledge of and experience in implementing ethical AI practices, with at least 3 years spent working on explainable AI, fairness, and bias mitigation.
• At least 3 years of expertise in implementing techniques like Retrieval Augmented Generation, Tree of Thoughts, or Multimodal CoT in prompt engineering projects.
• Minimum of 4 years of experience in productionizing AI models, including scalable data pipelines and robust monitoring systems.
• At least 5 years working within Agile-like teams.
• Proven experience with architectures like CNNs, transformers, GANs, LSTMs, GNNs, Autoencoders, Diffusion Models, and NODEs.
• Proven experience debugging AI systems and improving performance via hyperparameter tuning.
• Knowledge of software design patterns, microservices, distributed computing, container orchestration.
• Proven experience developing ML solutions using Python and libraries like NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib and scikit-learn.

Responsibilities

• Recommend and develop comprehensive AI systems and frameworks.
• Lead prototyping of AI concepts and MVPs to validate solutions.
• Assist in designing cloud architecture for large AI systems.
• Design robust data pipelines for complex AI workloads.
• Develop low latency APIs and services to deploy AI models.
• Create monitoring for AI models and systems.
• Participate in agile-like development practices.
• Create thorough documentation aligned with policies.
• Mentor AI engineers and stakeholders on AI strategies.

Skills

AI/ML development

Cloud architecture

Prototype leadership

Explainable AI

Prompt engineering

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Statistics/Mathematics

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

MLX

JAX

Python

Job description

Premera Blue Cross is hiring an AI Engineer IV for a remote role in the United States. You will lead AI/ML solutions from concept to production, mentor engineers, and shape governance and data-quality practices across the team.

You will design scalable data pipelines, build low-latency APIs, and guide senior engineers on AI strategy while collaborating with stakeholders to deliver business value.