Software Engineer - AI

Nebraska Blue; Omaha, Northern (NE, KY); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska is seeking a Software Engineer to research, design, test, and maintain systems and applications with a focus on safe, compliant healthcare AI solutions.

The role supports remote flexibility with one in-office day per week and possible travel to our headquarters for approved states. The ideal candidate will be near Omaha, Nebraska, and thrive in a cross-functional team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field and 2–4 years of software development experience.
• Experience with agentic AI in production, not just demos or wrappers.
• Experience with multi-agent systems and real users depending on correct answers.
• 1–2 years building/operating production LLM or agentic AI systems.
• Ability to describe decisions on state management and failure handling in multi-agent setups.

Responsibilities

• Design and build LangGraph-based orchestration to route member intents to agents.
• Define an agent integration contract with input/output schemas and latency SLAs.
• Manage context across turns and agent handoffs with persistent member state.
• Implement guardrails and PHI handling to ensure compliant responses.
• Develop RAG pipeline using Azure Search for policy content and docs retrieval.
• Create versioned prompts and robust output contracts for the AI platform.

Skills

Python

Agile/Scrum

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Azure OpenAI

Azure AI Search

Azure Container Apps

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.
• Systems with multiple agents, explicit state management, and real users depending on the answers being correct.
• 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 users.
• Built 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.

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

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. 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. On the cutting edge of the health care industry, helping Nebraskans in moments of joy, times of hardship and the steps in between. We are Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska (BCBSNE), and we exist to be there for people when they need us. Our goal is to add more good, healthy years to people’s lives by supporting our customers and the Nebraska community at large. We have more than 80 years of experience behind us. And a bright future ahead as we continuously innovate to drive health care forward while meeting the needs of our members and state. If you’re passionate about helping people along their health journeys, we invite you to explore our career offerings. Here, you will find opportunities to grow personally and professionally while making a difference for our customers and greater Nebraska community.