Software Engineer - AI

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska; Omaha (NE); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska is seeking a Software Engineer to design and implement cross-functional systems and applications. The role focuses on multi-agent orchestration, context management, and SAFETY and PHI handling in production AI environments.

You will work with LangGraph, Azure OpenAI, and Azure AI Search to deliver scalable, compliant solutions while maintaining a strong emphasis on customer outcomes and healthcare accuracy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required with 2-4 years of software development experience.
• Experience with agentic AI in production—not just demos or tutorials.
• 1-2 years building and operating production LLM or agentic AI systems.
• Ability to describe decisions in multi-agent systems: state management, failure handling, governability.

Responsibilities

• Multi-agent orchestration layer design for LangGraph-based system.
• Define and implement agent integration contract with input/output schemas and latency SLAs.
• Manage context across turns and agent handoffs in conversations.
• Implement guardrails and safety layer for PHI handling and compliant responses.
• Design RAG pipeline and retrieval quality standards using Azure AI Search.
• Develop and maintain versioned prompts and structured output contracts.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

Azure OpenAI

AI systems

LangGraph

Azure AI Search

Azure Container Apps

Agile/Scrum

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Azure

Git

CI/CD

Python tooling

Job description

At Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska, we are a mission-driven organization dedicated to championing the health and well-being of our members and the communities we serve.

Our team is the power behind that promise. And, as the industry rapidly evolves and we seek ways to optimize business processes and customer experiences, there’s no greater time for forward-thinking professionals like you to join us in delivering on it! As a member of Team Blue, you’ll find purpose, opportunities and the support you need to build a meaningful career and make a powerful impact in our community.

The Software Engineer position will be responsible for working with cross-functional business teams to research, design, test, and maintain various systems and applications. This role is responsible for providing engineering knowledge and experience, as needed, to deliver solutions to the business both on new builds, as well as support on modifications and maintenance for existing programs.

The ideal candidate will live within driving distance of the Omaha, Nebraska office. This position allows remote flexibility but will have 1 day per week in the office.

If living in one of our approved states (Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and Texas) – this person may travel to our headquarters based on business needs.

What You'll Do

• Multi-agent orchestration layer. Design and build the LangGraph-based system that classifies member intent and routes to the right agent. Stateful, context-preserving, failure-tolerant. Handles commercial agents and internally built capabilities through the same interface.
• Agent integration contract. The standardized pattern that makes any agent pluggable: input schema, output schema, confidence signaling, latency SLA, fallback behavior. When the team integrates a new agent, they follow a pattern you designed.
• Context management across turns. Multi-turn conversations that maintain full member context across agent handoffs. The member asks a follow-up two turns later; the platform knows what was said, which agent handled it, and what was retrieved.
• Guardrail and safety layer. Clinical safety boundaries, PHI handling at the LLM layer, and response normalization ensuring every agent response arrives in a consistent tone and within compliance constraints regardless of which agent generated it.
• RAG pipeline architecture. Benefits documents, formularies, and policy content retrieval via Azure AI Search. You define the ingestion strategy, chunking approach, hybrid search configuration, and retrieval quality standards.
• Prompt architecture. Versioned prompt registry, structured output contracts, few-shot pattern design. Every prompt is testable, rollback-able, and understandable by the team.

To Be Considered For This Position You Must Have

• Bachelor’s degree and 2-4 years of experience in software development.

Experience with agentic AI in production—not LLM wrappers, not single-agent chatbot demos, not RAG tutorials.

• 1-2 years building and operating production LLM or agentic AI systems
• You can describe specific decisions you made in a multi-agent system: state management approach, how you handled agent failures mid-conversation, how you kept the system governable as agents were added
• LangGraph, AutoGen, or custom graph-based orchestration used in production, not just evaluated. You know where it breaks down and how you worked around it
• Debugged retrieval quality problems, iterated on chunking strategies, dealt with stale knowledge bases in a live system with real usersBuilt evaluation systems from scratch: golden datasets, automated regression, domain-appropriate accuracy metrics. Your eval suite caught a production regression before users reported it
• Experience in healthcare, insurance, fintech, or legal domains—AI systems where a wrong answer has consequences, and you designed the safeguards that make accuracy non-negotiable
• Strong knowledge of Python. Work in an existing codebase and extend it with the AI layer
• Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, Azure Container Apps are the target stack

The Strongest Candidates Will Also Have

• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Desire to think in a creative, lateral way both conceptually and in practical application.
• You must be obsessed with addressing customer needs.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience creating Single Sign On (SSO) experiences.
• Possess emotional intelligence.
• Preferred qualifications include experience with .NET development, API design and integration, and UI/UX principles to support the delivery of intuitive, customer-focused applications.

" We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time."

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Other duties may be assigned.

Ready to make an impact? Join a team where your skills, attitude, and ideas are valued—and where you’ll help shape the future of healthcare technology.

Learn more about what makes BCBSNE such an exceptional place to work by visiting NebraskaBlue.com/Careers.

We strongly believe that diversity of experience, perspective and background will lead to a better workplace for our employees and a better product for our customers and members.