Sr Software Engineer

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska; Omaha (NE); On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska is seeking a software engineer to design and operate a multi-agent AI platform that improves member experiences and healthcare outcomes. You will own orchestration, integration contracts, and safety layers across Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, and related services.

The role emphasizes production-grade systems, state management, and collaboration with healthcare stakeholders to ensure accurate, compliant responses and scalable tooling.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 4–7 years of software engineering experience.
• Experience with agentic AI in production—not just demos or tutorials.
• Proven production experience with LangGraph, AutoGen, or graph-based orchestration.
• Debugging retrieval quality and chunking for live knowledge bases.
• Strong Python in production, healthcare/insurance domain experience a plus.
• Experience with Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, Azure Container Apps.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the LangGraph-based multi-agent orchestration layer.
• Define and enforce agent integration contracts: input/output schemas, signals, latency SLAs.
• Manage multi-turn contexts and handoffs across agents in live conversations.
• Implement guardrails for clinical safety, PHI handling, and compliant responses.
• Define RAG ingestion and retrieval quality standards using Azure Search.
• Develop versioned prompts and structured output contracts for all agents.

Skills

Python

Azure OpenAI

LangGraph

API design

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field

Tools

Azure OpenAI

Azure AI Search

Azure Container Apps

PostgreSQL

Redis

LangSmith

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.

Health insurance is one of the most confusing, high-stakes experiences people navigate. Members don’t understand their coverage, can’t predict costs, and struggle to get answers when it matters most. We’re building the AI platform that changes that—a member experience that feels like having an expert in your corner. It’s already live. It’s already helping people. And it’s just getting started.

The next chapter is multi-agent: specialized AI agents collaborating to answer clinical questions, navigate prior authorizations, close care gaps, and guide members through their benefits. The orchestration architecture, the agent integration patterns, the evaluation systems that keep it all trustworthy at scale—that’s what we’re building together. You’ll shape how it’s designed and set the standard for how it grows.

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.

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

What You’ll Do

Your primary focus is agent design and orchestration.

• 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 4‑7 years of experience in software engineering.

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.

• 2–3 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.
• Possess emotional intelligence.

The Stack

Python / FastAPI

• LangGraph
• Azure OpenAI / Claude via Azure
• Azure AI Search
• Azure Container Apps
• LlamaIndex
• LangSmith
• Azure App Insights
• PostgreSQL
• Redis

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.

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.